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Meetings insight: Just three actionable items!

Berkonomics

How to make it work for you: [Email readers, continue here…] Our CEO encourages her group to make fast, fact–based decisions on which alternatives to pursue, prioritizing their actions and those of their direct reports toward achievement of a goal or a solution quickly and efficiently. We all can benefit from this lesson.

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

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If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. It turns out it's not just a quick line of code to send an email -- it's also a hassle to make sure that those emails get delivered, that your email isn't classified as spam, and handling all sorts of delivery issues.

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How do you focus your team for action?

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] She encourages her group to make fast, fact–based decisions on which alternatives to pursue, prioritizing their actions and those of their direct reports toward achievement of a goal or a solution quickly and efficiently. We all can benefit from this lesson.

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6 Information Surges Raise Huge Startup Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. Many companies are already seeing their computing costs drop by thirty percent as they move in this direction, providing new startup opportunities with the Everything as a Service (EaaS) trend.

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What I Learned in 2014: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

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achieved a market cap of $1 billion or more. I have always known that the odds for success were stacked against us, but this was the first year we really quantified those odds. Looking at the 21,600 venture deals done in the last decade -- 66% have returned 1x or less, 91% have returned 5x or less and only 0.7%

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Startup Lessons From Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon

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Unfortunately, successful musicians seldom have the luxury of market testing their subsequent albums. Entrepreneurs should unabashedly copy Pink Floyd's simple, yet effective market validation strategies. This audience feedback allowed the band to iteratively modify their creation. Pay To Play. Share and Enjoy.

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6 Technology Trends Will Spawn Countless New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. Many companies are already seeing their computing costs drop by thirty percent as they move in this direction, providing new startup opportunities with the Everything as a Service (EaaS) trend.