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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

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You attend five customer meetings together over a two-week period and after each meeting you replay the results in the office about what it meant. The CEO weighs in with his perspectives, the head of product management disputes his conclusions and the marketing VP has a different take. He downs cold ones with the head of biz dev.

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One Startup’s Story: The Evolution Of An Outsourcing Strategy

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In building my company – Dropmysite / Dropmyemail – I found that managing outsourcing was an ever-evolving combination of local and remote capabilities that stays flexible enough to meet changing conditions. When we launched two years ago, for example, the whole development team was based in India. Plus, with India being 2.5

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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

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Dr. Marcos Athanasoulis, CTO of Harvard Medical School discussed this idea with me recently. Cloud-based legal records management, digitization, archival, retrieval. Michael Aginsky, CTO of Gibbons P.C. First up was Ambal Ramachandran with SurgeForth , a talent management SaaS company that we first saw last November.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

To put it into management speak, our digital infrastructure is world-class. Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). A top-notch infrastructure. A conducive business environment.

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. And consultants who aren’t going to work for you for free. I have a related dilemma. So you see my dilemma.

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

Prerna began her startup journey after leaving a job as a management consultant, and launched Yaari, a youth-oriented social network in India. She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method. He shares: “You need to test your way through this process until you find that crucial connection point.”

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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Our clients, too, place their trust in the Resume Pilots team to manage a critical component of their job search with the end goal of getting them where they want to be in their careers. I chose Income Solutions Wealth Management to tell a story. Browning, Income Solutions Wealth Management ! #11- 5- Two ways. Thanks to Lance A.

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