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How Technology and Training Fueled One Ad-Based Company’s Growth

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To reduce that high turnover among the young people BlitzMetrics employs, the brand has created a tight qualifying process, only hiring resourceful and diligent people and maintaining a set of realistic standards for success. People will change jobs seven times in their lifetime,” Young says.

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In Cloud We Trust: First Round invests in Backupify

This is going to be BIG.

Not only did users start signing up for backup of the hosted photo services they were using, but they started requesting additional services as well—Google Docs, Basecamp, blogs, even their web e-mail. With this round, Backupify is going to be able to sharpen its product and business focus, and make some much needed engineering hires.

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