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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

Everybody thought the real substance was going to come from B2B eCommerce players that would deliver “real value&# by disintermediating supply chains … blah, blah, blah. We were it in Europe: B2B. We headlined at the Red Herring Europe conference (they were the equivalent of TechCrunch today).

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. There are plenty of companies poised to serve your needs in Bangalore, the Philippines, and across Eastern Europe. Ditto for Apple. But these challenges no longer exist.