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Are India’s IT managers holding back the country’s startup growth?

The Next Web

It had survived the global financial crisis without taking a fatal hit, the client base was steady if marginally declining and the numbers that matter were looking up again. But our managers didn’t get it. All the way from 1993 to 2000. There were niggles, but nothing that needed a hospital visit. So what went wrong?

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. To manage these employees companies create metrics to control, measure and reward execution.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . Use Case I: Payments and Finance . 1) Generalizable Payments .

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Via Codigo lays down it’s growth plan: Key Alliance with Transformify to Empower the Social and Labour Reintegration of Vulnerable Youth

Transformify

Thanks to key alliances with the Forge Foundation and the global recruitment platform Transformify , teenagers that go through their program, will broaden their job opportunities at an international level by applying to remote jobs. The teenagers work as freelancers while Via Codigo manages the communication with the clients.

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How To Successfully Market To Millennials

YoungUpstarts

by Kelly Morr, Senior Manager of Content Strategy at 99designs. There’s a lot you can say about the cohort born between 1982 and 2000. Soma donates to global water charities with every filter purchase. If you make caring a part of your brand identity, it will attract the generation that cares.

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Meet our Startup Chica Committee Members

Austin Startup

Paulina Cabrera, Operation Coordinator for Solar Winds and Latinitas Volunteer Paulina Cabrera Paulina Cabrera grew up in Arlington, TX, but had the wonderful experience of living in Neiva, Colombia from 1997 to 2000. Bianca graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in Supply Chain Management and Hispanic Studies.

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Global Mobile Internet Data Traffic To Explode 13-Fold By 2017: Cisco

YoungUpstarts

exabytes per month (or 134 exabytes annually) by 2017, according to he Cisco® Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2012 to 2017. Or 134 times all the Internet Protocol traffic (fixed and mobile) generated in the year 2000. Average global mobile network speeds will increase seven-fold from 2012 (0.5

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