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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

One would think entrepreneurs would never want less available cash – until such time as their competitors ridiculously and unnecessarily all raise $50 million in the name of a “land grab” thus making it much harder for your totally reasonable company to attract investors. Not less work but fewer “things.”

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. Ryan had a vision for an integration web-based system to layer on top of all of this to help support and manage the software development process.

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Giving Tuesday: How BoardEffect Is Giving Back to Nonprofits

Board Effect

BoardEffect was founded in 2007 by a team of web developers that served nonprofits and educational institutions. The great work keeps on building as more and more nonprofits realize the benefits of a board management portal. They named it simply, We CARE. Revisiting BoardEffect’s History. Let’s revisit our history a bit.

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Build Success from a Struggling Agency with a Multimillion-Dollar Pivot

Duct Tape Marketing

“We see agencies that are really good at lead generation, for example, they can make that phone ring, but if they’re not good at managing the relationship with the customer, they’re going to leave.” Chris (01:04): Yeah, so well, let's go back to 2007. Doing the management consulting.

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[Review] Hatching Twitter

YoungUpstarts

Twitter, which originated as an accidental side project of a failing Internet startup, first launched into prominence in 2007 when it landed best start-up in the blog category of the technology portion of annual festival SxSW that year.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. consumer companies were enhanced because they coincided with hardware that allowed us to capture more content instantly – namely images and video. If you don’t manage what is said about you in social networks it could be detrimental.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

Honeywell CEO Dave Cote also cautions against shortsightedness during economic downturns: I’ve been a leader during three recessions and I’ve never heard a management team talk about how the choices they make during a downturn will affect performance during a recovery. Managing the means of production to fit the circumstances.

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