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5 Tactics To Help You Make Good Decisions In Business

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I recommend that you use every vehicle at your disposal, including email and public statistics, to clarify the worst case. Avoid being misled by flawed decision frameworks. Find any way you can to shift the framework. In my experience, making no decision most often leads to the worst outcome.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

I told people privately my perfect spec: computer science undergrad from MIT (or any other great school), 2-years at McKinsey but no more than that (I love the analytical framework that the top strategy consulting firms provide. Okay, so maybe you never took statistics, microeconomics or macroeconomics. What you gain: 1.

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Quickly Enable Social Logins with JanRain Engage

SoCal Delicious

To summarise - getByIdentifier should get the users identifier from your Users table, if the user has logged in before; createUser should add a new user to the database, if its the first time they have logged on.