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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Visionary CEOs are not “just” great at assuring world-class execution of a tested and successful business model, they are also world-class innovators. Filed under: Corporate Innovation.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Visionary CEOs are not “just” great at assuring world-class execution of a tested and successful business model, they are also world-class innovators. Filed under: Corporate Innovation.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. Nairobi, the capital of Nigeria, is often pointed out as the birth place of the so-called Silicon Savanah which gave the rise to the Africa’s tech scene between 2007 and 2010.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution. Kayak generates both distribution (i.e. 166M round closed Dec 2007.

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Creative Entrepreneurs Making Task Management a Seamless Process for Teams

Hearpreneur

Customizable task management : With MeisterTask , teams can track tasks from creation to completion via agile and intuitive Kanban-style project boards. When we first launched MindMeister in 2007, we provided the first cloud-based, truly collaborative, mind mapping solution on the market. Here’s what MeisterTask 2.0

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric, When I came to IMVU back in 2007, I had really enjoyed the actual product (the chat client) and getting to know the regulars on the forum. Compared to 2007, the chat client runs whole lot smoother (well, right before 2.0 In fact, one of your own mods, told another customer to literally go f themselves. You earned their loyalty.

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