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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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Facebook, Google) to a large market opportunity then you had better have enough resources to compete. I loved the quote so much I wrote an entire blog post on the topic. I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. As we added more resources we added more strain on his high-calibre core team.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

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No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog. I never built Google. I learned how to establish a technology center in India and how to manage disparate development teams (and this has drive my thoughts also about what does NOT work.). They come in the form of personal references.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.