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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: What Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has learned in his business career

The Next Web

When he founded Netflix as a DVD rental service in 1997, Hastings had already led one company, Pure Software, from its birth to an IPO. People at Blockbuster and Kodak were smart, and they worked hard, but still didn’t manage to do that. So Asia is going to be a challenge, because it is such a different market.

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re not in the mood for a personal essay as an example of personal brand management you might want to wait for my next post. Literally every project I started I had to sit down with the manager and explain that I wanted to be on the technical track. In my next post I will take on the topic of how to control your brand.

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Should You Serve Fair Trade Coffee?

Up and Running

Certification began in 1997, as a concrete way to ensure that a fair trade certified (FTC) label on a product meant that a series of milestones had been met, and a socially conscious consumer could rest easy with their purchase. Culture Managing a Business News Non Profit Organizations fair trade fair trade certified fair trade coffee'

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On IIT Kharagpur, India

ReadWriteStart

My 1997 recruitment visit met with tepid response, with the student body largely interested in multinational placements at the time. For the uninitiated, IIT KGP is considered one of the top technology schools in India, and it is located in the Eastern part of the country, not far from the city of Kolkata.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I started Padlifter the world’s largest marketplace of short-term service providers—to become a ‘one-stop-shop’ for property owners and managers to find the right solutions in the right places at the right times. My manager began to bully me in the workplace. #4- Address frustrations and challenges.

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Neurodiversity: Marie O’Riordan on the sense of belonging

Transformify

Our guest today is Marie O’Riordan, Senior Public Relations & Communications Manager at Prepaid Financial Services. In addition, as a natural negotiator and a people person, Marie accompanied delegations on long-haul multi-country trade missions in Asia and Europe. What was the impact of this meeting on your personal values?