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These Are the People You Need on Your Startup Team

Chart Your Course

Understanding that each team member has a role in the company and their personalities need to match these roles can mean the difference between failure and success. You need a numbers guy to navigate your company to financial success. The finance department is your business foundation so you need it to be one that you can trust.

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How to Build ROPE Teams in Sales Organizations

Leading Blog

Teams have also played a central role in my life by ensuring that I received the support needed to achieve two cherished goals: leading sales organizations at several of the nation’s largest technology firms and climbing the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on each of the seven continents. Inside ROPE teams provide another important benefit.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside. Best wishes Sir.

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Boards Aren’t the Right Way to Monitor Companies

Harvard Business Review

This idea has led to regulation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002), as well as requirements by the NYSE and NASDAQ that boards have a majority of independent directors and that members on the audit committee have financial expertise. Boards can and do play an important role in the success of companies.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

And then we found Alibaba — and it found us — and that connection led to the partnership that ultimately proved to be remarkably successful. This success was built on what we learned from our prior efforts, as well as a resolve to take new risks to do what was necessary to succeed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Would You Invest in This Kid?

Harvard Business Review

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. Human productivity was low and few technologies, at large scale, were created. He did it through sheer ingenuity, without any formal training.

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How to Discover Your Company’s DNA

Harvard Business Review

One of its most successful marketing campaigns was “Let’s Build a Smarter Planet.” ” And its current focus is on Cognitive Business, led by the machine learning technology called Watson. But in the wake of that crisis, IBM returned to its DNA of “think.”

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