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Profile of John Gulius, South Carolina-Based Turf Management Expert

The Startup Magazine

Recognized for his skills in turf care and sales management, John Gulius has an impressive professional background , consistently delivering top-tier service with outcomes that exceed customer expectations. While maintaining professionalism, I operate from the perspective of, “How can I make this right?”

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Leadership Failure! What Will It Cost You?

YoungUpstarts

Just one floor below him, one of Mike’s managers, Rambling Roger, started running a different racket. This manager wasn’t one of Mike’s political buddies. His operational leaders turned blind eyes to cost overruns. Mike sharpened his corporate gaming skills as he flipped the switch on his region to autopilot.

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How to Write a Business Plan for Raising Venture Capital

Growthink Blog

Demonstrate your team’s unique unfair competitive advantage, whether it is technology, stellar management team, or key partnerships. This gives the assurance that if management executes well, the company has substantial profit and liquidity potential. The operations plan transforms the business plan from concept into reality.

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Factual Data On Popular New Venture Success Timelines

Startup Professionals Musings

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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Why Every Company Needs A DevOps Team Now

Feld Thoughts

Since 1999, my passion has been studying high performing IT organizations. Over the years, I’ve come to believe with moral certainty that everyone needs DevOps now, especially software startups where the successful execution of Development and IT Operations preordain success or failure. That moment is now.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 Think DropBox, Airbnb, Uber, Maker Studios.

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30 Entrepreneur Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

The management team of one of the companies sat down for a brainstorming session. My wife and I co-founded our Web development and digital marketing agency atCommunications, LLC in 1999. In addition to managing our firm, I have the privilege of teaching a course in entrepreneurship. Photo Credit: Terry Kasdan.

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