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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. Such involvement can lead to greater visibility. Start small and build up.

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The Scaling Lesson from Facebook’s Miraculous 10-Year Rise

Harvard Business Review

Some 650 people had already joined, and thus began the company’s wild ride toward becoming a social networking site with over a billion users, thousands of employees, and a market capitalization well north of $100 billion. As it happens, today is also the official publication date for Scaling Up Excellen ce by Huggy Rao and me.

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Entrepreneurship Needs to Be a Bigger Part of U.S. Foreign Aid

Harvard Business Review

In 2007 such young enterprises created almost two-thirds of the nation’s 12 million new jobs. There are human resources and procurement challenges to overcome as well. Here are two surprising facts. First, the average American estimates that over 25% of the U.S. federal budget goes to foreign aid. That is wildly off.