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Remote First: Why Isn’t Every Company Boundaryless

ReadWriteStart

Global internet bandwidth has exponentially increased while costs have become radically lower. Managing distributed teams is not the same as managing a local team, and many managers are unprepared for this challenge. Who are the managers for the project? Real estate costs in tech hubs have skyrocketed.

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

The first category includes companies that have a dominant position in their national market and are often internet or ecommerce companies. I would categorize these champions in two camps: the “Local Champions” and the “Global Champions”. Why Eastern Europe? mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs. in GE, 1.3 in Brazil and 0.8

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

I think too many books are written by charlatans and have too much management jargon / double speak that I can’t stand. During this period of time I found ways to get my firm to staff me in Italy, France, Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and the UK. Let me start by saying I’m a huge business book cynic.

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Skype for Small Business Profile: Drew Gerber

Mike Michalowicz

He’s a citizen of the world who currently splits his time between Hungary, Serbia, and the US. It’s the nuts and bolts of how Drew gets it done on a day-to-day basis that interested me, though, and I compared some notes with him about how he manages to run his business successfully from such unlikely locations.

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Remote Work in the Time of COVID-19

ReadWriteStart

And finally, we’ll dig into the fundamental changes in leadership, management, and mindset that will allow people to weather this period of extraordinary change and come out the better for it. The fact that the Internet and remote work apps are finally fast and robust enough that near-seamless remote collaboration is possible.

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Startup Lessons Learned

Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Thanks again to all of our amazing sponsors, volunteers and staff who are working very hard to make this event a reality. Thanks again to all of our amazing sponsors, volunteers and staff who are working very hard to make this event a reality.