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What Startups Can Learn About PR and Crisis Management

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Journalists write stories that have an appeal to readers whether the accusations have merit or not. See here how much perfect bait was tee’d up for MG at TechCrunch in this public fight between Google & Microsoft and again and again. Develop Trusted Advisors. Good PR will help you punch above your weigh class.

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Creating the Next Generation of US Employees. My Investment in Treehouse

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I know readers of this post aren’t in that demo but that’s what the data says. Programming should be the middle class job of the next 20 years. No, not all of these people will get jobs at hot starts like Facebook, Google or Twitter. I’m investing heavily in Internet video. Americans watch 5.3

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University (class of 1991). This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Communicating with the developers who write code.