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Good riddance to non-competes

OnlyOnce

I love that the FTC just banned non-competes, as everyone expected they would. We started off at Return Path years ago with a standard and fairly benign non-compete because they were standard. We started off at Return Path years ago with a standard and fairly benign non-compete because they were standard.

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Primary Problems with Enforcing Non-Compete Agreements

YoungUpstarts

Businesses often require employees to sign non-compete agreements to protect their business interests. However, just because an employee has signed a non-compete agreement does not make the agreement valid under the law. Non-Compete Time Period. Many companies get their sales leads from public sources.

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Six Nudges: Creating A Sense Of Urgency For Higher Conversion Rates!

Occam's Razor

Our average delivery times to California are 50% faster than Amazon. Something so special, it stands out against everyone you compete with. Stretch your imagination and it is not hard to come up with some super-clever nudges that incorporate aggregate non-PII information that is public. You catch my drift. Add to Basket!

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them.

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The Danger of Crocodile Sales

Both Sides of the Table

I love working with Aussies because their outlook on life seems very similar to what I grew up with in California. Pretty laid back and non-hierarchic. I’d like to talk about Crocodile Salesmen in 3 scenarios: 1) when YOU are selling (or someone on your team), 2) when you are trying to recruit a sales person.

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TEDx Bay Area Women, quick fire talks

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

In the bayarea, TEDx Bay Area Women organized an event hosted at SAP in Palo Alto, California. Some folks whom I met: Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California. Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California - voting machines were pulled bc they weren’t sure if viruses been loaded to a machine.

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SuperMac War Story 2: Facts Exist Outside the Building, Opinions.

Steve Blank

It wasn’t a lack of competence or skill in her job; it was just that as far as she was concerned, her job had no connection to the rest of marketing, our customers or our ultimate success as a company. I also wanted to know who our existing customers thought we competed with. What did they think we stood for? If so, where?