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Building The Right Corporate Culture, From A Self-Confessed Former Jerk Of A Boss

YoungUpstarts

The founder and CEO of Blinds.com – a leading Internet retailer of custom window treatments on the internet, specializing in blinds, shades, shutters and draperies – confesses that he was a jerk of a boss who used to terrorize his employees and micro-managed every detail of his business. Here’re some of those gems.

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Transcript of Why Customer Service Must Come from the Heart

Duct Tape Marketing

” And so what I think is powerful about that is they get to know the human and then their senior leadership all spends 20% of their time per week, not coaching them on how to make hamburgers, but coaching them on their human instincts, and how to be a better person, and how to behave in a good way in terms of coaching their humanity.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric Ries : I had to do the math, and it's dangerous to do the math live, but I had to look up on Wikipedia the number of English-speaking internet users, which is about 1.1 Eric Ries : So if I'm getting it right, 60 million people is something like 5% of the possible audience of people who are on the internet and speak English.