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Understanding How New Enterprise Software Is Licensed And Deployed

YoungUpstarts

The decision process to purchase new enterprise application software can be daunting. A critical part of the evaluation process is to clearly understand the flexibilities a software provider offers to license and deploy the solution for your use. by Wayne Wedell , President and CEO of WorkWise, LLC. Named or Concurrent Users.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

There were startups and a software industry but barely. 2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). There was no money train.

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5 Ways Leaders Can Eliminate Stress And Reboot For Change In 2021

YoungUpstarts

Leaders need to be empathetic to help their employees manage stress and stay productive, especially in these unprecedented times. The holidays always add stress, but company transitions heading into the New Year, magnified by the uncertainty we all face due to COVID-19, can send that stress off the charts.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Back To Basics: Document Management Best Practices

YoungUpstarts

Finding effective solutions for managing business data is one of the biggest obstacles businesses encounter in reducing costs, improving service, increasing productivity, and meeting regulatory requirements. Here are some tips to better manage your documents: 1. Managing Unstructured Data. Consistent Folder Structures.

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Can Document Management Restore Consumers’ Trust In Enterprises?

YoungUpstarts

This means we’ve reached a divergent road in the history of information management — one which splits inevitably at the solutions organizations use to solve the problems that paper and unchecked digitization have caused. Think your organization is too small to suffer a business injuring breach, fraud incident, or information compromise?

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.