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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

Both Sides of the Table

And that rep doesn’t just send an email to his boss – he has coffee with the head of customer service. He gossips with the office manager who tells 3 software developers. I don’t like distributed development teams in early stage businesses. I’m fine with key developers being in a remote location.

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Interview: Benjamin Satterfield, Co-Founder & CEO TestFlight

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Value Prop Twitter Style : TestFlight helps developers build better apps. You can watch the videos below or on YouTube here: PART I and PART II: What follows is a summary which paraphrases Ben’s responses. We developed it for ourselves. In the development world, it is always about patterns. You can manage teams.

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The Story Behind ScoreBig's Live Entertainment Tickets, with Adam Kanner

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In summary, there are three channels - you can pay retail by going to a Ticketmaster. Ticketing and league development rolled up under me. So new fan development was a critical thing. So, I'm intimately familiar with all of the ticketing contracts, which was critical. People call if they have any issues.

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

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Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. The video can be watched here , but there is a most excellent summary below provided by John Excley. After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ). How is that unique?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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