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How to be an Olympian in Your Business

Growthink Blog

Arguably the #1 factor in gaining those tiny, critical slivers of business competitive advantage, just as it is for Olympic athletes , is the quality of our team and network of advisors, consultants, coaches, and helpers. Business is no different.

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London Calling

Startup Lessons Learned

His method advocates the creation of rapid prototypes designed to test market assumptions, and uses customer feedback to evolve them much faster than via more traditional product development practices. After the talk and Q&A, there will be a networking reception and everyone will leave with a complimentary copy of the book.

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Wrike: The All-In-One Project Management Solution

YoungUpstarts

The software is further an all-in-one solution for enhancing product development and delivery, enabling teams to prioritise and assign requests in a flexible fashion that controls management from concept to completion. It later opened offices in Dublin, Ireland, Kiev, Ukraine, and St Petersburg, Russia.

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No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.

Steve Blank

First, the company bought a fleet of 15 rockets from Russia, the U.S. iridium satellite network. But in the 11 years it took Iridium to go from concept to launch, innovation in mobile phones and cell phone networks moved at blinding speed. And Iridium would do this without building a single cell tower. It All Came Crashing Down.

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35 Leading Women Entrepreneurs Paving The Way For Success

Designmantic Blog

She was one of the founding members of the Athena Network in 2005 where she also served as its Operations Director and supported over 30 Regional Directors. Gina Bianchini is the founder and CEO of Mighty Networks, which is a SaaS platform to help entrepreneurs create a community-powered brand. Kendall SummerHawk. Gina Bianchini.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

The two companies have collaborated for a long time, with Facebook using Face.com’s technology to help users tag the faces of friends in pictures they upload on the social network with Face.com’s Photo Tagger service. Facebook’s acquisition of Face.com will enable the social network to embed face recognition software into its photo app.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter December 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

NETWORK EQUIPMENT MAKER JUNIPER BUYS ISRAELI VIRTUALIZATION SECURITY FIRM ALTOR FOR $95 MLN. “Juniper is excited to acquire one of the industry’s leading virtualization security vendors and the extremely talented team that built it,&# – Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager, Juniper Networks.