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How Baby Boomers Fit In The Realm Of Entrepreneurship

Startup Professionals Musings

All the learning from parenting pays big dividends here. Software and hardware development architects and designers. On the other hand, there are some roles in a startup where Boomers are probably not the best candidates: Constantly-on-the-road sales territory management roles. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers.

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Startups Are Not Just The Realm Of Young Generations

Startup Professionals Musings

All the learning from parenting pays big dividends here. Software and hardware development architects and designers. On the other hand, there are some roles in a startup where Boomers are probably not the best candidates: Constantly-on-the-road sales territory management roles. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers.

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Follow This Six-Point Checklist To Strengthen Employee Onboarding

YoungUpstarts

Centralizing an onboarding group across all departments of an organization will pay huge dividends when bringing on new hires. Whether it’s an inactive email address, a project management software glitch, or a cracked computer screen, etc., Let’s start with the six suggestions discussed below: 1. Align all the Departments.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation.

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Managing Your Startup Board?—?A Short Presentation

Both Sides of the Table

For years software development worked on a “waterfall model” in which you did research, design, build, test, deploy and then watch how users reacted to your product. I also wrote an entire series on the topic of Startup Boards if you want to do any more reading that link has several articles you can dig into. How Do Boards Get Out of Sync?

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More Successful New Entrepreneurs Are Baby Boomers

Startup Professionals Musings

All the learning from parenting pays big dividends here. Software and hardware development architects and designers. On the other hand, there are some roles in a startup where Boomers are probably not the best candidates: Constantly-on-the-road sales territory management roles. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers.

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Simple And Effective Ways To Promote Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Dependent on your business, these marketing efforts may pay dividends in customers remembering your brand or slogan. Don’t dismiss traditional marketing methods. Although traditional marketing methods can be costly, they shouldn’t be dismissed altogether. People love to see visuals when deciding on whether they choose you or a competitor.

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