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What to do When a Tech Giant Decides to Eat Your Lunch

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The golden rules to live by are: Platforms are channels not businesses. If you put all of your eggs into one platform shame on you, not them. KIK became large in the first place specifically because BBM wasn’t interoperable across platforms so you know the market is broader than one closed ecosystem. It’s why we all exist.

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

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The video can be watched here , but there is a most excellent summary below provided by John Excley. Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar.

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Best Tips for Working from Home Effectively

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Between commuting, grabbing lunch with coworkers, and attending regular meetings, your day is pretty much planned out from the get-go. While colleagues will stop by your desk, attend meetings, and suggest lunch with you, working from home can often breed loneliness on a day-to-day basis. Create a Routine. Address Loneliness.

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People Management: Startup Teams Should Dip but not Skip

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I had long ago ceded the knowledge and responsibility for making the detailed technical recommendations about platforms, databases, hosting solutions, etc. But I knew that to be a good decision maker I needed first hand knowledge rather than just a summary from my CTO.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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Executive Summary. If you want to watch the video version summary of my advice on fund raising it’s here. He knows the history of all of the payment gateways, mobile payment platforms, credit offerings, remittance companies, etc. But the summary for you is: - get an intro. Fund raising is bloody hard. Tell a friend!

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