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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

During this period of time I found ways to get my firm to staff me in Italy, France, Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and the UK. I ran a team of 14 people (12 Japanese, 1 German and 1 Turk … both of whom were fluent in Japanese) who produced an Internet strategy for the board of Sony. It was not a touristy experience.

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Remote Work in the Time of COVID-19

ReadWriteStart

The Coronavirus pandemic is undoubtedly a catalyst for this sudden movement, but the underlying factors that are powering this change include: Employee preference to work from home (plus higher productivity in many cases). Many people are more productive working from home. From the USA Today Article: . From the USA Today Article: .

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Remote First: Why Isn’t Every Company Boundaryless

ReadWriteStart

Global internet bandwidth has exponentially increased while costs have become radically lower. If you’re recruiting out of Hungary, the signals you’d typically rely on to help you identify strong candidates probably don’t exist. Can they lead the development of a complete product from scratch?

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

The first category includes companies that have a dominant position in their national market and are often internet or ecommerce companies. I would categorize these champions in two camps: the “Local Champions” and the “Global Champions”. Why Eastern Europe? mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs. in GE, 1.3 in Brazil and 0.8

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Should Apple Buy Hungary?

Agile VC

I had read somewhere that Apple’s cash pile was equivalent to Hungary’s GDP so I tweeted out the suggestion that perhaps an activist shareholder should push an acquisition of Hungary rather than thinking small (e.g. For some reason the notion of Apple hiking the taxes of Hungary to fund a dividend recap just amuses me….

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5 Most Successful Products Ever and What Small Businesses Can Learn From Them

crowdSPRING Blog

When planning your next product, the less you leave to chance, the better. And while you can never guarantee a successful product launch, you can vastly improve your odds if you prepare properly. You need to know what a successful product looks like if you want to chart a course to get there. iPhone (2007).

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Two years of remote working – hiring, scaling, culture, and the lifestyle trade-off

The Startup Toolkit

Tech businesses theoretically get this for free once the product is built, since most websites can do their thing without you being on call. For example, we’ve set up our comms so we can be away from internet for a week or more without negative effects. Then why give it up? And once it outgrew the founding team, we hit a wall.

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