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What Makes an Ideal Leader in a Startup Tech Company?

ReadWriteStart

For example, they can create a clear understanding of what the brand is and what it isn’t, and steer operational models and marketing strategies to adhere to those principles. With consistent practice and a reliable philosophy, leaders can cultivate a strong work culture—and ensure that employees always know what’s expected of them.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

These people may be permanent employees, or they may work on a project-by-project basis, but they are managed very much as if they’re working right alongside you. At that time, Automattic had just 50 employees spread across 12 US states and ten countries. The best way to win the talent war?

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Greatly Improve Your Real Estate Business By Using Blockchain Technology

YoungUpstarts

Though it is an online entity with thousands of employees and offices around the globe, it serves as a “middleman” for sellers and buyers. In addition to that, the blockchain allows for complete transparency throughout the entire operations, which in turn helps you build trust with your tenants.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Teten: How is the corporate VC model evolving: in how they interact with portfolio companies or the operating side of their organization? Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. They used to come in at series B and later.

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4 Well-Known Companies to Emulate

Growthink Blog

If the answer comes back that sales would plummet as customers would leave for lower priced competitors, then the needed places where our offerings lack intrinsic and perceived value - because of operational inefficiencies and / or branding ineffectiveness - should become readily obvious. And then get to work to fix those places!

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Social CRM at the Crossroads

Venture Chronicles

Traditional CRM has existed to date in the oak paneled cigar smoke filled back room that is enterprise software, it is expensive software built for use by employees. The evolution of business is all about the reduction of latency and disintermediation through technology, as in the elimination of human action.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

In fact my first job as an early employee of PayPal was as Product Manager responsible for our mobile products (WAP-enabled cell phones and our legacy Palm Pilot IR port product) and the first international version of PayPal. Canadian operator Rogers filed to become a bank last year.

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