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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. Greetings from Crete, Greece Reply Jerry Ji , on April 10, 2009 at 11:09 am Said: Simply _THE BEST_ war story I’ve read in months. The first reaction from my CEO was, “that’s why you’re running the department.”

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The Steps of the Recruiting Process … and How to Identify Failure Points

www.ere.net

Sales and Guest Relations Manager for CIS, Eastern Europe & Greece. Formerly the chief talent officer for Agilent Technologies (the 43,000-employee HP spin-off), he is now a professor of management at San Francisco State University. Where does the job seeker go “hangout” to get recognized by the employment recruiter?

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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

With huge unemployment rates in countries like Spain, Greece and Portugal, coupled with risk-averseness and impractical education this leads to a circle of hopelessness. So you learn to be agile, to take it in your stride, to pivot based on the shortcomings of your competitors. It’s a great life lesson in any case.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

Greece) might attempt a half-crazy experiment like this. Systems like M-Pesa (see note #3 below) took off because in developing nations prepaid wireless minutes were a parallel currency, fungible for real money.

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What Greek Startups Can Teach the World

ReadWriteStart

Whitehill “saw a real resurgence of people in Greece who realize entrepreneurship is the way out of the [economic] challenges they were having.” According to Whitehill, entrepreneurs are “viewed as outcasts in Greece.” In Greece, “Entrepreneurs don’t have a place to go - so many have left the country.”. Proactiveness.

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What Greek Startups Can Teach the World

ReadWriteStart

Whitehill “saw a real resurgence of people in Greece who realize entrepreneurship is the way out of the [economic] challenges they were having.” Entrepreneurs as Outcasts According to Whitehill, entrepreneurs are “viewed as outcasts in Greece.” In Greece, “Entrepreneurs don’t have a place to go - so many have left the country.”