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Middle-East-Meets-West Provides An Edge For B2B Tech Companies

YoungUpstarts

by Melissa Lincoln, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Leadspace. In addition, San Francisco is within striking distance of other major US B2B tech markets, like New York and Chicago. A technical office in Israel enables tech companies to find and hire engineers and data scientists with meaningful, real world experience.

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Finance Fridays

Feld Thoughts

I got a bunch, but one that stood out was from a group of incoming MBA students at the University of Chicago Booth. In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India.

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Workplace Flexibility Boosts Remote Teams’ Loyalty

Transformify

The first was a shakeup in our software engineering team, which was originally based out of New York City. We found an extreme talent in Adeel Ahmad who worked between Lahore, Pakistan and Chicago, Illinois at the time. Living in Wyoming is exciting but isn’t it a challenge to manage remote teams?

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

Eric Paley , managing partner at Founder Collective , told me that they had implemented a city-wide program in Boston to help local university students get internships at local tech startups. I also learned about this amazing resource in Chicago called BuiltInChicago which I intend to use for my trip there in November.

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What Is Leadership?

YoungUpstarts

Managers must hire people to get the startup where it wants to go, and they need to create an environment that allows employees to challenge them with different perspectives and opinions and to get all the best ideas, the best data, and the best information on the table. This time spent ahead of time, ensuring the fit is right, is essential.

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Essential Facts and Statistics Every Entrepreneur Must Know

crowdSPRING Blog

We’re partial to Chicago. Chicago is home to many successful startups, including crowdspring, Chicago boasts a thriving startup scene, an incredible 10 times a return on investment, and pretty outstanding hot dogs. Beyond Chicago, there are many other great cities in the US for startups and entrepreneurs.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

We needed routers, switches, databases, caching software, load balancers, application servers, browsers, compression algortyhms, streaming technology, low-cost storage, management consoles, programming libraries and on and on. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area.