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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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© 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09. Company registered in England and Wales #5189175. Highlights: What do you need to raise investment? The problem with development consultancies How to recruit strong technical staff for start-ups Call: +44 (0) 844 3579899 Email: Tweet: @reincubate.

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The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company

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Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. .” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. Support.com — On 2.5m

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Remote Hiring For Success

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Is it an increase in sales; building a community of followers and clients; higher retention rates or improved customer service? . She began her work-at-home career in 1996 with the launch of her first website: Home-Based Working Moms. Include not only the most important tasks of the job, but also the outcomes you desire for this role.

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Is it an increase in sales; building a community of followers and clients; higher retention rates or improved customer service? She began her work-at-home career in 1996 with the launch of her first website: Home-Based Working Moms. Include not only the most important tasks of the job, but also the outcomes you’ll expect.

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When starting Career Central in 1996, my team & I identified three qualities that we wanted our employees to possess: tirelessness, selflessness, and fearlessness. We had near-perfect retention up until we sold the company, despite being located in the roaring Silicon Valley job market of the late 1990s. Our approach succeeded.

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The Coming Zombie Startup Apocalypse

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Would you be surprised to know that almost half of the dot com companies founded when the boom started in 1996 were still around in 2004--four years after the peak of the NASDAQ? Retention, referral and growth hacking experts would be in high demand, asked to squeeze blood from a stone in order to grow a userbase without paid acquisition.