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IBM: Where Corporate Responsibility is Not a Trend, but a Lifestyle

Austin Startup

If you looked at just the business pages in American newspapers, you’d think corporations working with nonprofits and delivering global responsibility was a new trend. However, global companies like IBM have been modeling social impact for decades now and Latinitas can attest to their commitment.

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The Magic of the Irish – Dublin’s Resurgence on the Global Tech Scene

Both Sides of the Table

Between 1995-2002 I visited often – especially since I founded my first company there. If you attract names like these you’re bound to attract some media attention and then Chad Hurley dropped the bomb that he was leaving YouTube while he was at the f.ounders event. Scenes from my counter-top on my last night in Dublin.

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Damon Becnel Discusses How The Startup Scene Has Changed Over The Past Decade

The Startup Magazine

Traditional business models have changed as globalization takes hold on a global scale, and technology changes our lives day by day. The term “startup” often refers to companies in high-tech industries such as information technology, biotech, social media, robotics, hardware manufacturing, etc. What is a Startup?

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10 of the Most Successful Investors of the Last 10 Years

The Startup Magazine

The global financial crisis started in 2007 and it went on for much of 2008. Zhitao runs Hangzhou Liaison Interactive, which is a Chinese technology-based company founded in July 2002. In 2018, Live Current Media bought it for $5 million. Investments from capital markets to real estate plummeted. Source: Pexels. Sean Belnick.

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3 Reasons Why Young Companies Need To Train In Cybersecurity

YoungUpstarts

The threat is growing, with cybersecurity attacks expected to cost global businesses $2.1 In turn, social media scams are becoming more prevalent. The statistics don’t lie. Last year, cybersecurity breaches cost businesses around the world $400 billion. trillion a year by 2019.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. That “survival mode” meant “that they later must spend far more than they saved in order to recover from their prolonged absence from the media landscape.”. “If

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“What the Heck Is Wrong With My Leadership?”

YoungUpstarts

But Tieto was growing rapidly and going global. By 2002, I was down to 54. It’s not social media. This post was first posted on Harvard Business Review blog and is part of the HBR Insight Center, The Next Generation of Global Leaders. Before long I was managing thousands of nerds in Russia, China, Germany, the U.S.,