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A Company Culture Evaluation: How To Do A Year-End Review

YoungUpstarts

Mentoring should happen every single day, not just a few times a year during performance reviews. When I was a senior systems engineer at AT&T Information Systems, I was supporting the top sales rep, Phil. Deb has delighted and inspired over 1,000 audiences across North America. Mentor in the moment?

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10 Positive Signs For Starting Your Own Business Now

Startup Professionals Musings

Crowd funding is setting new records worldwide, with $17 billion from North America alone, and VCs poured another $100 billion more into small growth companies last year. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low.

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[Review] The Lean Startup

YoungUpstarts

Embracing the principle of genchi gembutsu – translated in English as “go and see for yourself” – Ries regaled how Toyota’s manager for Sienna minivan Yuji Yokoya went on a 53,000 mile trip around North America to understand firsthand what consumers wanted in a minivan.

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Awesome Austin Tech Events, May 8–15

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: May 7, 2017 The strength of the Central Texas technology / startup scene helps SXSW thrive as an epicenter of innovation. We also advocate the fundamental right to explore, tinker, create, and innovate along the frontier of emerging technologies. At Capital Factory at 7:00 pm. At Galvanize at 10:30 am. $79

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How to Build an All-Star Remote Technology Team

The Startup Magazine

Remote teams work from the same office and include a wide range of specialists – UX designers, solid software engineers and project managers. This kind of companies, for example, can augment the teams behind successful startups in the Bay area while operating in Asia, Eastern Europe or South America. How to hire technology superstars?

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30 Entrepreneurs Forecast Where Their Business Will Be In Five Years

Hearpreneur

It will be a one-stop shop for finding out about moving services, getting quotes and reviews, and booking appointments. 8- Becoming one of the most reputable tech platforms. Automation and artificial intelligence are the recently introduced technologies that are growing rapidly in the entire world. Photo Credit: Marilyn Gaskell.

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . Because of this, we are a multi-geography firm, and will invest in all the core innovation centers in North America.