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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

The company’s VP of Business Development & International Matt Cooper, with whom I spoke a few days before the IDCEE conference where he came to give a talk, is not really concerned with the rivals’ numbers though. Every part of our organization has members of the team that are distributed all over the world.

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Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right

Both Sides of the Table

Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. When you hire people in functional roles they want to show that they’re achieving results and results are easiest to measure by tasks accomplished. .&# Sounds simple but in practice I promise you most organization fall into the latter trap.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. Talk about waste.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. For example, its always nice to have someone constantly optimizing your SEM accounts, driving down your CPA. But its not really viral growth, even when its exponential.

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15 Entrepreneurs Describe Their Leadership Styles

Hearpreneur

For instance, an authoritative style may not suit a business in its initial stages of development. When my revenues grew, I began to hire people with one clear criterion: only hire people I want to go on vacation with. ‘How would I out-maneuver our SEM keywords? Photo Credit: Lauren Mendoza. 5000 Best Workplaces.

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Lessons Learned: Test-Driven Development as andon cord

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 1, 2008 Test-Driven Development as andon cord You cannot control what you cannot see, and the hardest part of managing software projects is that the final product is so intangible. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

dominated by a few very large incumbents who control much of the distribution or are you going into a market that is “fragmented” where nobody controls the industry. They might struggle to hire a-players because, well, would you go work at Public Storage to build their software capabilities? ”

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