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How To Stop Toxic Leadership From Spreading A Virus In Your Company

YoungUpstarts

Here are some ways businesses can encourage leaders to engage in healthy behavior and detoxify the culture: Establish specific codes of conduct. Correcting or preventing abusive behavior by leaders means first establishing a code of conduct – with management principles – as an essential part of the corporate culture.

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DEMO Report: Startup Creativity Through Variety

ReadWriteStart

The young companies that took the stage Wednesday to kick off the three-day startup fest in Santa Clara, California, demonstrated a surprisingly wide variety of software and Web services. Irvine, California-based e-commerce startup Looqiloo has launched in beta a cloud service that lets people upload videos of product reviews.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

He has been granted two software patents, and has multiple patents pending. He was named among the World’s Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review and received the TR100 award in 2002. Mr. Vukajlovic has two kids and lives with his family in Zurich, Switzerland. Moderator: Robert Savage, CEO, Track.com.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter May 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

The International Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, in its 2011 World Competitiveness Yearbook ranked Israel in the 17th place among the world’s 59 leading economies in terms of competitiveness. BROADCOM BUYS ISRAELI SECURITY SOFTWARE DEVELOPER SC SQUARE. Israel was also ranked 17th in 2010.

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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

What is your advice to someone who has financial strain due to a startup? Long days are not a matter of “coding for 14 hours&# or “writing for 14 hours&# or “ __ for 14 hours.&# I do have the work life balance reasonably well tuned now , incidentally. I do want to comment on the 14 hour day folks.

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The State Of E-Commerce Checkout Design 2012

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

This has lead to a massive checkout database with 508 checkout steps reviewed, 975 screenshots, and 3,000+ examples of adherences and violations of the checkout usability guidelines. steps, counting from the shopping cart to the step where the order is actually placed — often a “review and confirm order” step.

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Transcript of Advice for Entrepreneurs Who Want to Sell Their Companies

Duct Tape Marketing

John Warrillow: It’s why technology companies, ones, in particular, that are based on SAS-based software, for example, are getting tremendous multiples because acquirers know they don’t need to invest in a lot of infrastructure to scale. It’s not something that you can buy some software, spend a course and teach people.