In general, when leaders are promoted from within, they need to keep in mind that they can not control the context, can not make a clean break, and have no honeymoon. [...]
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The transition from Eric Schmidt to Larry Page as CEO of Google is a useful moment to take stock of this iconic company. [...]
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Deborah Mills Scofield: Steve,
Congrats on your new 'blog locale'! The google 20% + 10% rule is nice, a great benefit for the employee, but that's about it. Perhaps because [...]
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quantumsignature: Excellant article!
I agree on your perspective, you should start at the customer first and back track to your product.
A second way to look at this is [...]
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The two key players in what's being dubbed Davos Junior, met through one of the most connected people you don't know in Silicon Valley. David Hassell, a serial entrepreneur, holds what's called "The Mansion Series," a monthly, invite-only dinner of entrepreneurs. That's where Thayer Walker, who's a thrillseeker and adventure journalist for a variety of national and international publications, met Jeff Rosenthal, and now the two are working together to take Summit Series, [an annual gathering of [...]
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What millionaires in their right minds would want to travel all the way to Utah to brave freezing temperatures, to trudge through five feet of snow up hills and down hills with sleet slapping them in the face, and to deliberately put themselves in the face of danger taking on Mother Nature’s wrath that would lift them up and knock them to the ground with one gust of wind? [...]
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Facebook has raised another $500 million from Goldman Sachs and Russian investor Digital Sky Technologies, at a valuation for Facebook of $50 billion, the New York Times reports. That makes Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg worth more than twice the $6.9 billion Forbes said he was worth in September 2010 -when Facebook was valued at $23 billion. [...]
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Kerry A. Dolan: Someday, Facebook is very likely to go public. Then its value will be determined by what a broader array of shareholders are willing to pay for its shares. [...]
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jillkennedy: It's an insane speculation that may or may not pay off in the end - but to just throw out a $50 billion valuation without any sort of proven profitability [...]
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Before Mellmo’s Senior Software Developer, Jerry Jones, heads to the office, he hits the waves. He is one of the top ten freeride jet skier’s in the world. [...]
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When it comes to millionaires and billionaires, if they want something, they’ll buy it. So, they’re difficult to shop for during the Holidays. What do you buy someone that seems to have everything? Sometimes the best option is to buy them new experiences they’ve never thought of or practical items you’d know they’d use, but they’d never think to buy on their own. Here’s my top ten list of great gift ideas for your man. [...]
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This post originally appeared on O'Reilly Radar (“Getting Google to notice your ebook“). It's republished with permission. [...]
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howtobeastripper: Excellent article.
I'm considering adding my eBook, "How To Be A Stripper: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know But Were Too Afraid To Ask" and happened [...]
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