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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

When organizations are small (startups, small teams in companies and government agencies) early employees share a mission (why they come to work, what they need to do while they are at work, and how they will know they have succeeded). It wasn’t that I had somehow inherited dumb employees. I wasn’t surprised.

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10 Big Ideas For Small Business Marketing

YoungUpstarts

But I am saying it’s time to get yourself (or an enthusiastic employee) a voice-enabled device and start paying attention to how companies are using it. However – agile small businesses who figure this out early could have a major advantage. And it’s not just directed at the government, either. Trust is precious.

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10 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Politicians

crowdSPRING Blog

This usually takes the form of public relations – news conferences, press releases, public appearances are leveraged to keep the person or the issue in the public eye and push the priorities and ideas of the politician into the public conscience. Politicians adjust.

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15 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

We decided to start something we felt would have the greatest positive impact on fellow business owners, an Agile Methodology consulting company. We quit our jobs, pooled our money, and set out to help companies implement Agile – a highly efficient, organized, and empowering way to run your business. 11 – Seeing a Need.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job. Prior to starting my own public relations and marketing consultancy, I worked for one of the largest global advertising agencies as well as smaller boutique PR and advertising agencies.

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Twitter Link Roundup #269 – Impeccable Resources for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

crowdSPRING Blog

Employee Culture: The Seven Deadly Sins – Small Biz Daily crowdspring.co/1GwPzGj. Why Your Best Employees May Be Thinking About Leaving crowdspring.co/1PYYHuc. How To Avoid Agility. Proof The Time Is Right For The Government To Approve Same-Sex Marriage crowdspring.co/1ETu8RF. Features are not goals – buff.ly/1IkHsRo.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). ALT.NET is a large sector of the.NET community that isn’t satisfied with the status quo and wants to find the best, most agile way to do things. More comments at the end. Jens Söderberg.

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