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Why Businesses Must Grasp Millennial Thinking Or Face Economic Calamity

YoungUpstarts

Millennials are the generation born roughly from 1981 to 1995, meaning that the older millennials aren’t that far from 40. One example is their relationship with technology. All of us, regardless of which generation we belong to, have been impacted by technology. They check websites, blogs, or peer reviews that they trust.

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How The Right Employees Have An Innovation Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, Google was already a big company when Paul Buchheit was unhappy with the capabilities of external email for internal communications at Google. An employee of Sun Microsystems, James Gosling, created a new object-oriented programming language called Oak in 1995. Exhibit market awareness and a drive to win.

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Keys To Develop A Great Small Business Growth Strategy

YoungUpstarts

Small businesses are responsible for as much as 65 percent of the new jobs created since 1995. The use of online marketing, email campaigns and other efforts are effective ideas in many industries. Each business has a unique target audience, so carefully review the best ideas for reaching your target audience.

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How The New General Data Protection Regulation Will Affect Online Businesses

YoungUpstarts

The new regulations replace the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive and the 1998 UK Data Protection Act. Because of the changes, you may have noticed new cybersecurity and privacy popups on sites when you land on them, or updates terms of use sent to your email.

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Are India’s IT managers holding back the country’s startup growth?

The Next Web

Narayana Murthy pulled a Michael Dell when he called time on his two-year-long retired life and retook charge at Infosys, the Indian information technology (IT) giant he had founded three decades ago in a small apartment with six others. Infosys would now be a technology solutions provider. In June this year, N.R. The reason?

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with technology to find ways to cope with the masses of information without having it ruin our lives. We were high tech at the very start of the boom. And from email we added IM, Facebook and LinkedIn where people contact us.

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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

Feld Thoughts

But it occurred to me today – after getting another email asking me how I’d become a VC, that I wasn’t really answering the question. Feld Technologies was acquired in November 1993. I was one of the most prolific Internet angel investors in Boston at this point (1994 – 1995) so our paths crossed periodically.