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7 Keys To Being An Exceptional Business Leader Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Today, with the Internet and social media, if you aren’t visible in a positive way to everyone, including customers, your leadership efforts will be lost. In this age of total access via the Internet, you can’t hide relationships, or the lack of them. Build relationships with known business leaders.

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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. It was just such a joy to develop things. Then in 1991 I came up with a product for developers that turned out to be important enough to build a company around. You’ve IPOed two companies.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. The fact that today’s Internet bubble does not represent all companies does not disprove its existence. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue!

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The Valley Lacks Flexibility, Not Talent

ReadWriteStart

There is not enough flexibility in them to really embrace change and use creative, innovative and hungry developers to the best of their abilities. Let's face realities here: it's no doubt tempting and cool for many developers to work for Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook or Twitter to name but a few. Don't believe the hype.

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5 Most Successful Products Ever and What Small Businesses Can Learn From Them

crowdSPRING Blog

The iPhone integrated phone, camera, music player and internet access all into one device – and it did it well. Lipitor (1997). The drug was developed at a time when the medical establishment already had several go-to drugs that served the same purpose. In fact, it was only the tip of the iceberg.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

2- Develop world-class vehicles. in 2016, as an advanced e-mobility and automotive technology company with the mission to develop world-class, emotionally-compelling vehicles featuring the most forward-thinking automotive technologies in existence. Using my analytics background I developed an algorithm to select the best investments.

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10 Famous People Who Flourished After Being Laid Off

YoungUpstarts

Mark Cuban wasn’t always a successful Internet mogul and NBA owner. In the ’80s, Cuban worked as a salesman at a computer store, but found himself more interested in working on computers and developing business plans rather than manning a cash register and sweeping the floors. Mark Cuban. Oprah Winfrey. Lance Armstrong.