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Design Your Company Culture Like The World’s Largest Hedge Fund

David Teten

Unless your organization explicitly endorses Bridgewater’s set of cultural norms and every employee signs up to live by that social contract, you will never use all of the Principles. I made a lot of mistakes at Bridgewater, and this was by design. A Bridgewater alum told me: “I re-read the Principles every few months.

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Fail To Plan, Plan To Fail: Designing An Implementation Process

YoungUpstarts

Designing an implementation process takes into consideration the following factors: What products and services will your business provide? What is your budget for items, employees and equipment? It takes setting goals and milestones that you and your employees can reach successfully. So what are your first steps?

Design 100
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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

7- To prioritizes employee and client retention. The three of us had the exact opposite mentality and created a company that prioritizes employee and client retention. We treat employees with respect, reward them for a job well done, provide them with new opportunities, and challenge them with exciting projects.

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How To Start A Startup – For Busy People

YoungUpstarts

Airbnb knew their first employee would be critical to their culture, so to find their first engineer they conducted hundreds of interviews over four to six months. At Stripe, all 170 employees have open access to every email sent in the company – which makes for a very transparent company – but a very crowded inbox.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

Accelerators & Fellowships : CITY Accelerators , Social Innovation Lab , Yale Center for Engineering Innovation & Design Fellowship ; Yale Canaan Fellowship. Density – Yale’s campus is dense by design. Its residential colleges are designed to cross-fertilize students and faculty from different disciplines.

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Why Having A BHAG Is Critical To Your Company’s Success

YoungUpstarts

As employees work together to achieve this grand goal, they’ll come up with innovative solutions and new ideas. We started franchising and slowly expanded from Fairfield County in Connecticut over to New York. I designed our first BHAG in 2013: keep all junk we pick up out of landfills. BHAGs also stimulate the creative juices.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees. Both studies counted only incorporated companies with employees. Web Design/Tech Services. Connecticut. Connecticut. Comcast Corp., and Verizon Communications Inc. But the company began to struggle after its relationship with Yahoo Inc. entrepreneurship.