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Can your employees recruit from a customer or supplier?

Berkonomics

One of your employees is approached by an employee of a customer or of a supplier, stating that “It sure would be great to work in your company.” The recruitment traps. It has happened to all of us who have been leaders in business long enough. State your policy clearly. My story of an employee over the line.

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Mojix In Japanese Distribution Deal With IBM Japan

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Los Angeles-based Mojix , a developer of RFID readers, reported earlier this week that it has inked a distribution agreement with IBM in Japan. Mojix, which is headed by Ramin Sadr, has developed RFID technology based on technology and techniques originally honed at JPL/NASA for deep space communications. READ MORE>>.

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Avoid the recruiting boomerang.

Berkonomics

One of your employees is approached by an employee of a customer or of a supplier, stating that “It sure would be great to work in your company.” It has happened to all of us who have been leaders in business long enough. Let me tell you the story from one of my companies that recently learned about the recruiting boomerang the hard way.

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13 Red Flags To Avoid In Your Investor Funding Pitch

Startup Professionals Musings

After listening to hundreds of startup pitches, and reading even more business plans, most new venture investors develop their own favorite list of “red flags” that signal the beginning of the end of their interest. Lead with your intent to offer the solution free to customers. Of course, customers love free, but investors hate it.

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Interview with Greg Siegel, VidMe

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Applied Minds is the stealthy research and development outfit backed by Kleiner Perkins and also based in Glendale. A lot of us have been in situations where we've shared various things with people--and usually, innocently, have them forward it around, reposted it, and done a lot of things you wish they hadn't done. READ MORE>>.

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How to Remove Maligning Web Content

Startup Professionals Musings

This would include removal of defaming items that have been published maliciously about innocent victims and companies, and just plain errors in data which may harm your company or your personal profile. These items can kill your business career, as you may remember from the example in Google Results are the Measure of an Entrepreneur.

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Interview with Dr. Ramin Sadr, Mojix

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Ramin Sadr is CEO of Los Angeles-based Mojix (www.mojix.com), a firm which is taking experience originally garnered by the firm's technology team in developing -- of all things -- deep space probes for NASA, and has been applying that to the RFID market. Mojix is venture backed by Oak Investment Partners, Red Rock Ventures, and Innocal.