There's a lot of talk about "be persistent" in traditional business literature self help books. And the advice is sound -- but the meaning is often missed. It's easy to say "be persistent" but being persistent at the point...
Topics: Business, Entrepreneurship

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I was talking to Rahul Pathak, CEO of Lookstat, about ways to increase the number of sign ups for his analytics product. He wrote a blog entry about Microstock RPI and image formats (why it'sn not as cool as you...
Topics: Business, Entrepreneurship, Founders Co-op, Lookstat

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There’s lots of buzz in the startup community about agile software development; there are software programs, books and seminars on the topic, and even huge firms like IBM are now touting their "agile development solutions". The general idea...
Topics: Business, Entrepreneurship

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A big company executive who is ready for a change asked me for career advice. He wants to work at a small company. I told him that he should take a project and start small -- work out of his...

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Charlene Li is one of the great analysts in the technology sector. Read about her and her company here. I just read her tweet: "Wanted: Your vote on the best title for my next book, takes 2 minutes. Thanks! http://bit.ly/18l7oE"...

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