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Toronto Based Start Up Readitfor.me | Reads Books for You

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Google’s current market cap sits at just over $200 billion (Yahoo! In most offices there would be a shelf of business books. Since, I am constantly reading to learn I would always ask questions about advice from the books. The video was meant to be an engaging 10 minute video to summarize a valuable book. Time is money.

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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

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We caught up with Amos to learn about his new book, and to gain some tips for startup entrepreneurs on how to figure out when you're actually ready to scale your sales team. What's the new book about? Amos Schwartzfarb: The book is called Sell More Faster, the Ultimate Sales Playbook For Startups. That was four years ago.

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Why Reed Hastings Should be Applauded for Netflix Split

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In my opinion it’s the most natural fit and it would give Netflix a very strong presence in Los Angeles and in TV (obviously subject to getting the right writes from the studios). If you haven’t read his book please do yourself a favor and buy it. I argued ages ago that Yahoo! Imagine if Carol Bartz or the Yahoo!

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The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get

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This is a theme that comes up in one the most influential business books for me of the past decade, The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb where he talks about the role that luck plays in business success. Would Google have become today’s juggernaut without Yahoo! I started by writing 3-4 times / week.

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

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25 Years of Writing Code. Adam Sroka, an agile software innovator, is a self-taught programmer with 25 years of writing code and previously combined his coding skills with his knowledge of agile and lean management techniques as a coach and technical trainer. and Schlumberger.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!,

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. And of course we have great public companies that have spanned content & communications like J2 Global whose market cap as of this writing is a cool $2.5