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The Valley Lacks Flexibility, Not Talent

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Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products. He was a lead for distributed teams in India, Europe and the U.S., He was a lead for distributed teams in India, Europe and the U.S., and a team in the U.S.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Blitzscaling is a strategic technique for moving faster, not a reckless gamble.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Everywhere I lived, I saw just how big an impact the education I was able to attain had, and how big an impact the lack of education had on the rest of my family and friends in terms of what they could achieve. As I watched the new CEO hire and fire 3 regional VP’s I finally sat him down. It was truly something that touched me.

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Design for Startups: The Aesthetics of Web Apps in 6 Questions

www.readwriteweb.com

Developers dont usually think much about how element should sit on a screen together, so you see a lot of items crammed together or unevenly distributed. Hire someone who understands that. To design like a teenager in 1997 using MS publisher is incredibly painful. Most developers are smart enough to do html, css, and javascript.

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