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Aug 26, 2015

Putting Elon Musk and Steve Jobs on a Pedestal Misrepresents How Innovation Happens

Since Steve Jobs’s death, in 2011, Elon Musk has emerged as the leading celebrity of Silicon Valley. Musk is the CEO of Tesla Motors, which produces electric cars; the CEO of SpaceX…

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Aug 12, 2015

The Tricky Ethics of the Lucrative Disaster Rescue Business

In retrospect, the choice to book a ground-floor room was a sound one. On Saturday, April 25, Andy Fraser lay in bed at the Rokpa Guest House, a modest three-story hotel in Nepal’s ancient capital, a city of 1 million sunk in a…

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Aug 29, 2015

When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China

This post is all about WeChat, but it’s also about more than just WeChat. While seemingly just a messaging app, WeChat is actually more of a portal, a platform, and even a mobile operating system depending on how…

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Aug 11, 2015

A former Google exec on how to make tough decisions quickly

I’ve long believed that speed is the ultimate weapon in business. All else being equal, the fastest company in any market will win. Speed is a defining characteristic — if not the defining characteristic — of the leader in…

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Aug 10, 2015

Howard Schultz: America Deserves a Servant Leader

FROM the earliest days of Starbucks, I’ve been captivated by the art of leadership. I was mentored over three decades by Warren G. Bennis, the eminent professor and scholar on leadership. I’ve gathered insights from peers, and I’ve drawn…

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Aug 29, 2015

Stock Options? Don’t Need ‘Em! I’m Coding For Uncle Sam!

There was a time when Mikey Dickerson felt that one could live a satisfying life as a Google site reliability engineer. That was before the fall of 2013, when he got a call to help out with the rescue of Healthcare.gov.

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Aug 13, 2015

The Most Successful SaaS Sectors

In every sales process for every SaaS startup, there is one ultimate internal champion advocating the purchasing decision. And it’s their budget that will be used to pay for it. So, which departments within customers spend most on SaaS?

The Most Successful SaaS Sectors

Aksh Gupta in theaksheffect

Aug 28, 2015

The Meaning of Serena Williams

There is no more exuberant winner than Serena Williams. She leaps into the air, she laughs, she grins, she pumps her fist, she points her index finger to the sky, signaling she’s №1. Her joy is palpable. It brings me to my feet, and I grin right back at her, as if I’ve won…

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Aug 13, 2015

Startup Best Practices 14 — Slash and Burn Your Calendar

When startups achieve hyper-growth, many of the key internal processes begin to fail under the strain of a newer, larger organization. So they must be reinvented. One of the most important internal processes, but least considered…

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Aug 28, 2015

Like brother, like sister: two siblings design two new Los Angeles homes

Anonymous Architects are no strangers to outwitting building rules and regulations — take for example their upside down Car Park House in LA, where residents drive straight onto the roof, eliminating the…

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