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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

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Electronic Arts is no different than many high-tech companies in this regard. Useful measures like number of bugs created and number of bugs fixed are viewed with suspicion that they will be used unfairly in annual reviews (or gamed by clever programmers in anticipation of annual reviews or performance bonuses).

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Loading… Tech. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mossberg Reviews the iPhone 5. » More.