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

Austin Startup

To combat this, distributed companies should document everything. Documentation ensures everyone understands the context and priority of their work and helps teams stay aligned. This level of documentation and participation may sound like a lot of work but pays off in the long-run. Read how Bezos applies this approach at Amazon.

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Three Common Expense Tracking Mistakes

YoungUpstarts

The most important element of proper record keeping is to document the business purpose for the deduction you are claiming. Either way, deductible business expenses must have a legitimate business purpose and that must be documented.

Utah 223
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Business Plans Are An Historical Artifact

Feld Thoughts

In each case, the business plans were big, long, serious documents that had only a minor semblance to actual business that got created. By 1997, when I started investing as a venture capital investor, I was no longer reading business plans. Is Your Business Plan A Roadmap Or A Historical Document?

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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. None of them allow you to link to an online resumé - they ask flat out for a Word Document on first contact. Outdated and Impersonal HR Practices.

Europe 139
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Home-Based Businesses – A Look Back In Time To 1985 And Beyond

YoungUpstarts

At the time, I had started a word processing business from home, so when I typed up a document for a client, and I made a mistake that couldn’t be fixed with white-out, I redid the entire document. I can remember being quoted in USA Today in 1997 on becoming a virtual assistant. What did that mean to me? Life was grand!

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How did you become a hardcore back-end developer?

Diego Basch

Fast forward to 1997. All you could do was an AND search (intersection between the sets of documents containing words), but it reduced the complexity from linear to almost logarithmic (binary search, basically). We grew from indexing 30M documents to 500M in a couple of years for example. I started coding in the 80s.

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Athenahealth Picks Austin for R&D Center and Plans to Create 600 Jobs

SiliconHills

The company, founded in 1997, provides cloud-based health information services for electronic medical records and other medical documents. Athenahealth announced plans to put a research and development center in Austin with plans to create 600 new jobs.

Austin 62