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Knowledge Retention: How to Protect Your Competitive Advantage

ConversionXL

You invest in your employees—mentoring, conferences, training. Employees take other jobs. It moves knowledge from the head (or hard drive) of a single employee into an accessible, company-owned repository. That transferability is a competitive advantage: Critical knowledge stays with the company, not the employee.

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4 Definitive Ways To Deal With Outages

YoungUpstarts

Back in 2007-08, I remember when not a week went by without Twitter going down. was milking the moment as people flocked to Twitter, the engineers at Google weren’t panicking, according to employees from the Reliability Team who were participating in an AMA on reddit at around the same time. While Yahoo! A banner ad.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru.

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

, but the evidence would suggest that repositioning the company as social enterprise software was a master stroke. Buddy Media builds, promotes and monetizes one of the largest networks of engaging and entertaining social media applications on the web.

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13 Helpful Organization and Productivity Apps For Small Businesses

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And then there’s all of the critical information, like legal contracts and forms, you and your employees need to access. Taylor was the co-founder of Google Maps, CEO of the ill-fated social network FriendFeed, and former Facebook CTO. Files you need to collaborate on with others, sometimes across different time zones.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

billion, plans to add Provigent’s employees to its Israeli R&D center. The government will pay 40 percent of the wages of employees, up to a maximum wage of 25,000 shekels ($7,000) per month, during the first year of operation of the Barclays center. Broadcom, which has a market cap of $21.7

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Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

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Consider how firms today confront Web 2.0 – the combination of blogs, wikis, and social networking technologies sprouting up. Of course, this draconian measure does not work; employees can blog under another name, or contribute to a wiki pseudonymously. ► 2007. (4). social networking. (1).

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