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These Online Programs Will Make You Rethink How You Can Improve Your Business Skills

crowdSPRING Blog

Besides convenience and affordability, online programs often offer courses and instruction that might normally not be open to the general public. The story behind Khan Academy is tech legend: educator Salman Khan started by posting videos on YouTube to help his cousin with her math homework and the videos went viral. Best of all?

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These Online Programs Will Make You Rethink How You Can Improve Your Business Skills

crowdSPRING Blog

Besides convenience and affordability, online programs often offer courses and instruction that might normally not be open to the general public. The story behind Khan Academy is tech legend: educator Salman Khan started by posting videos on YouTube to help his cousin with her math homework and the videos went viral. Best of all?

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Small Business Spotlight: Rent A Green Box

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Rent A Green Box solves a problem for someone moving and a problem for the Earth. I buy post-consumer and industrial trash from landfills, recycling centers, and industries across America. We make over 25 eco-friendly packing and moving products that are sold exclusively to our dealers in America and internationally.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it. It isn’t new stuff.

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

blog.expensify.com

But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. It’s so blinded, it’s shocking.

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Out of the Crisis #16: Robert Schooley on why we weren't prepared, long-term thinking, and how to make decisions for the greater good.

Startup Lessons Learned

We talked about why America was so unprepared to fight the virus, focusing on the legacies we leave behind, his experiences during the HIV-AIDS crisis and much more. If it works, it will be one of the most comprehensive testing programs in the country. Because this is not over.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I had about 500 members join the first program, and grew it to 1,000 members, and that’s why I can quote those numbers basically. It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that. In the Magic site’s case it was a forum that would grow virally by itself.