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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

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The things that always differentiated Accenture? Investment in training, adherence to process, global knowledge sharing systems, quality control / partner reviews and campus recruitment programs that attracted the right talent. And coming to the end of 2010 I feel a sense of reminiscence of some of the trends from a decade ago.

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Why Startups Need a Well Articulated Strategy (And How to Think About Yours)

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With 30 million registered users on a global basis. It has become the largest art community on the web with huge pockets of global users who never had a website in which to express themselves amongst peers and also find ways to monetize their talents on a global basis. 65 million monthly actives. billion monthly page views.

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Here’s What President of textPlus @Nanea Reeves Has to Say on Leadership, Mgmt, Women in Tech

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Nanea help leadership roles at EA (SVP, COO Global Online), Gaikai (Chief Product Officer, Chief Strategy Officer), JAMDAT (SVP), Machinma (COO) and currently textPlus (President & COO – including leading engineering and product). Nanea Reeves has a storied career in senior leadership roles at technology companies.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

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He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. He sets goals for MRR (monthly recurring revenue) to differentiate from one-time revenue, license revenue, services revenue and other.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

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I think that mindset is useful to remind entrepreneurs that it is a shared journey and capital (whether active or passive) is a part of your success and your ability to access it when you need to and for the amounts you need is a very critical differentiator between successful companies and unsuccessful one.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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” The pioneering fund of funds realize that their source of differentiation is much more about the latter than the former. Summary: Cheap, mobile, social, global, always-on, one-click-purchase =. The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009?—?more more than 5 years ago?—?and and hasn’t abated.

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When Security Can Become Your Business Differentiator, Everybody Wins

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According to Michael Brown, CEO at Symantec , “The demand for the (cybersecurity) workforce is expected to rise to 6 million (globally) by 2019, with a projected shortfall of 1.5 The security staffing challenge will remain a problem for all organizations – not just SMBs – for the foreseeable future.