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7 Keys To Being An Exceptional Business Leader Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Many people believe that Steve Jobs did not become a recognized business leader until after his return to Apple in 1997, when he became more visible, changed his business style, and focused on communicating the big picture, rather than product development. Build relationships with known business leaders.

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Three Common Expense Tracking Mistakes

YoungUpstarts

by William Olsen, CPA, Co-founder and VP of Product Development at Deductr. William Olsen, CPA, Co-Founder and Director of Deductr been in the tax industry for 20 years and a licensed CPA since 1997. The vision of sorting through receipts “mining” for deductions makes procrastinators out of all of us.

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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and client. I tell these stories to lay the groundwork for what I am going to call Revenue Development. We’re all familiar with Product Development, and thanks to the amazing Steve Blank and Eric Ries , Customer Development has become the mantra for so many startups.

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Amazon Web Services as Metaphor

aweissman.com

Those that worked, we added capacity, services, as needed, thus variablizing the entire product development process. For someone like me who grew up in the Internet of 1997, to watch this was nothing short of revelatory.

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