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6 Guides To Get You Started Down The Best Career Path

Startup Professionals Musings

A very credible starting point is the classic book “ Promote Yourself: The New Rules For Career Success ” by Dan Schawbel, managing partner of Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm. The MAPP career test was one of the first comprehensive career tests online for consumers, with over 8 million customers.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

We were on the University of North Carolina campus to meet with Fred Brooks and Henry Fuchs. Oh, and since it was not code compatible with anything, we were going to have to port all the key scientific applications our customers needed (as soon as we figured out who they were.) We were going to be guessing.

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Interplay Learning?—?Helping the Skilled Trades Rebuild a Bigger and Better Workforce

Austin Startup

Better Careers, Better Lives Skilled trades specialists can be performing crucial, customer-facing roles within months through an attractive and accessible career pathway?—?leading leading the way to Interplay’s own ethos, “better careers, better lives.”

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6 Personal Assessment Tools To Optimize Career Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

A very credible starting point is the classic book “ Promote Yourself: The New Rules For Career Success ” by Dan Schawbel, managing partner of Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm. The MAPP career test was one of the first comprehensive career tests online for consumers, with over 8 million customers.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

Recently, the New York and North Carolina legislatures considered a new law written by Auto Dealer lobbyists that would make it illegal for Tesla to sell cars directly to consumers. When companies are protected from competition, they have little incentive to cut costs or to pay attention to changing customer needs.

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Episode 5: Profit And Social Media Strategies With Cyndi Thomason And Brent Robinson

Mike Michalowicz

in Economics from North Carolina State University (where she graduated Cum Laude), along with over 25 years of experience in administrative business systems, Cyndi Thomason is a senior-level executive with the proven ability to achieve significant results through leadership, teamwork and individual initiative. Backed by a B.A.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

Recently, the New York and North Carolina legislatures considered a new law written by Auto Dealer lobbyists that would make it illegal for Tesla to sell cars directly to consumers. When companies are protected from competition, they have little incentive to cut costs or to pay attention to changing customer needs.