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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

A former engineer, Rob was a great writer and a thoughtful student of management. We used to chat a fair amount via our respective blogs about management and entrepreneurship. I didn''t actually get to meet him in person until SXSW in 2007. I took this picture of Rob, Michael Galpert, and Danny Wen of Harvest.

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17 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We asked entrepreneurs to share why they started their businesses and here are the responses: #1- To be close to my family Photo Credit: Daniel Espada As an engineering project manager, I faced a crossroads in my life. My work required me to relocate, which would separate me from my loved ones. Thanks to Leah Selfe, The Productivity Queen !

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Working Remotely: Is work From Home Good for Everyone?

Transformify

I started working remotely as a freelancer back in 2007, and then became a digital nomad in 2012, traveling to/living in over 120 cities in 50 countries since then. The nature of remote work also makes it even more important for managers to clearly define the roles and what constitutes “success” for their workers.

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Business Week Report on “Radical Future of R&D” Misses Critical Capital Markets Link in Innovation Ecosystem

Pascal's View

” Mr. Slywotzky is an “author of several books on profitability and growth” and currently a partner at the management consulting firm Oliver Wyman. But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year. In the 1990s the U.S. economy created a net 22 million jobs, or 2.2 million a year.

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12 Terrific Coworking Spaces in Chicago

crowdSPRING Blog

TechNexus is one of the oldest coworking spaces in Chicago and prides itself as being “the gateway to collaboration for Chicago’s technology leaders.” Since 2007 it’s helped find, fund, and nurture technology companies out of its 65,000 square foot workspace in downtown’s Lyric Opera building. 20 N Upper Wacker Dr #1200.

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Episode 11: Business Buzzwords, False Assumptions, and Content Tips from Joe Pulizzi | the Bcast

Up and Running

Jonathan : There’s a version in technology where cutting edge makes sense, and I think it’s when you are actually doing things that are legitimately moving things forward with data and science and things like that. Once we do that, we want to harvest the audience. Peter : Absolutely. Cutting edge is a good example.

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