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Remote Work in the Time of COVID-19

ReadWriteStart

…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Many people are more productive working from home. A recent study by YouGov that surveyed 10,000 people working from home found that productivity increased.

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[Interview] Omar L. Harris, Author Of “Leader Board”

YoungUpstarts

Harris is passionate about leading teams, high- performance coaching, and inspiring more people to adopt the servant leader mindset. A 20-year veteran of the global pharmaceutical industry, he now resides in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he is General Manager of Allergan PLC. What was the impetus for your book, “Leader Board”?

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How can startups engage with Google?

VC Cafe

This most likely involves a combination of an operational team (cloud, enterprise, commerce, etc) and the corporate development team, led by Don Harrison. Notable acquisitions include Youtube and Nest, or more recently smart glasses manufacturer North or wearable tracker FitBit (under review).

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

blog.expensify.com

In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. These development platforms have contributed significantly to the popularity of the products from Apple and Microsoft. Eclipse has been emulating Visual Studio for years now. March 26, 2011 at 3:52 am.

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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

You see, coming from a UX background where the focus is on giving people a great product experience, I tended to look at the marketing side of business as something reserved to slick types – characters often played so well by George Clooney. Brazil, with a population of 200M and Mexico with 120M are now in our top 5 download countries.

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