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What is the secret to remote work? Just ask your Sales team.

Austin Startup

The hype cycle for “Remote Work” and “Distributed Companies” has reached a fever pitch, and everyone has an opinion about it. Here are some lessons I’ve picked up after watching them work with clients distributed across the country, which should be adopted by leaders of a newly remote workforce. They always come prepared.

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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. I’ve been married for 22 years now and when I had my first company I just assumed I would run that company for the rest of my life and keep doing software development. How will mobile change.

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The Valley Lacks Flexibility, Not Talent

ReadWriteStart

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 He was a lead for distributed teams in India, Europe and the U.S., Outdated and Impersonal HR Practices.

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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. Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year.

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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. 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. Its the ultimate challenge.)

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