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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

I had come across a guy from the US named Michael Rhattigan who had transfered from the Chicago office to a place called Sophia Antipolis in the south of France (mid way between Nice & Cannes). He introduced me to a senior guy from the “network solutions&# practice, a Dutchman named Valentijn Bonger.

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Remote Work in the Time of COVID-19

ReadWriteStart

…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Fully remote distributed companies used to be a rarity. Zoom, Slack, Trello, Jira, and Microsoft teams – are all suddenly household names. Here is remote work in the time of COVID-19.

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The Midas List Then and Now

View from Seed

Innovation is Becoming More Broadly Distributed. Name brand firms like Benchmark, Sequoia, and NEA had 4+ partners on the list. Perhaps similar to the rise of successful China focused investors, we’ll see a similar wave of Midas list investors that have focused specifically on Africa or some other emerging economy.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. After a quick google it became clear that this was the name for our new agency. 2- A name that came to my mind. 1- Suggested by a friend.

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Tesla vs. Target: Which CEO wrote the better transparency letter?

The Next Web

However, in reality, it shows the tactic projects defensiveness and an unintentional distribution of responsibility. Without naming names, Steinhael could have pointed out the obvious fact that consumers were no more at risk at Target than they were at any other retail store that accepts credit cards.

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I then ran a crowdsourced contest on crowdSpring to come up with ideas for the name. CrownTV is a spinoff of that name.

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Which Investors Are Glad To Pay For Mediocre Performance?

David Teten

Teten : I’m not sure I agree, as inevitably some people will look like geniuses in a random distribution of outcomes. Can you prove that more of these people exist than one would expect from random distribution of outcomes of investing in the public markets? Even if you can, it’s impossible to predict who these folks are a priori.