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Burnout « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Just as I was getting settled into Zilog, the manager of the training department got fired. (I I was beginning to think that my hiring managers were related to red-shirted guys on Star Trek.) Looking at the green and yellows of the farms, I realized that my life lacked the same colors. How did I miss that?

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Go Anywhere, Get Anything

Reid Hoffman

Dara manages Uber’s fast-growing business in 63 countries around the world and leads a global team of more than 22,000 employees. The way that Travis had set up Uber was a kind of vertical stack, very loosely coupled efforts, and any GM was essentially the CEO of their own city. We had a management offsite plan.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Top 10 Tech Trends To Watch

ReadWriteStart

The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship. Today, the company produces low carbon footprint fruits and vegetables and sells to distributors in California, Nevada and Arizona.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one. hmmm- Amazon S3=?

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Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports

Occam's Razor

Getty is the fourth green line. This is what it looks like, for our website and our images category leader… You can notice big differences in acquisition strategy right away – from the size of the boxes, and from, for example, seeing that Web Portals and Search is darker green (more growth) for Shutterstock than for us.

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