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nytimes.com February 24, 2020
As the Start-Up Boom Deflates, Tech Is Humbled

Layoffs. Shutdowns. Uncertainty. After a decade of prosperity, many hot young companies are facing a reckoning. SAN FRANCISCO — Over the past decade, technology start-ups grew so quickly that they couldn’t hire people fast enough.
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buzzfeednews.com February 22, 2020
Millennial Women Made LuLaRoe Billions. Then They Paid The Price.

Lawsuits, mountains of unsold leggings, and families drowning in debt: the tumultuous story behind a multilevel marketing brand that promised millennial women a pathway to financial freedom.
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npr.org February 21, 2020
Enjoy The Extra Day Off! More Bosses Give 4-Day Workweek A Try

Companies around the world are embracing what might seem like a radical idea: a four-day workweek. The concept is gaining ground in places as varied as New Zealand and Russia, and it's making inroads among some American companies.
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lifehacker.com February 24, 2020
Five Best Business Card Printing Sites

Looking to do a little professional networking? A business card might help, but if your company won’t pay to print them, you work for yourself, or want control over what’s on your card, you’ll have to print them on your own.
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marker.medium.com February 24, 2020
How a Hot $100 Million Home Design Startup Collapsed Overnight

12:54 a.m. on September 10, yet another lust-worthy image appeared on the Instagram account of the interior design startup Homepolish.
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outsideonline.com February 21, 2020
The Dark Secrets Lurking Inside Your Outdoor Gear

Reports of unfair labor practices in the apparel industry seem to come with depressing regularity, and most recently, they’ve involved some prominent outdoor gear brands.
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nybooks.com February 27, 2020
Can Journalism Be Saved?

Can Journalism Be Saved? February 27, 2020 Issue The question arises at this point, why are there so many black sheep in journalism? Why so many “fakes”? Why is the epidemic of “yellow journalism” so prevalent? This phrase is applied to newspapers which delight in sensations, crime, scandal,
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ccn.com February 23, 2020
Tesla is Slowly Pushing Germany Into Recession

Germany is on the brink of recession after growth slowed to zero in the last quarter. The economy is being dragged down by a seismic slump in car manufacturing. The Tesla effect – and the shift to electric vehicles – is leaving Germany in dire straits.
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inc.com February 23, 2020
With 9 Short Words, Warren Buffett Just Shared a Brutal Truth That Very Few People Are Brave Enough to Admit

Berkshire Hathaway released the annual shareholder letter from Warren Buffett Saturday. This year's letter includes a lot: company performance, Buffett's critique of accounting rule changes, and how much Berkshire paid in income taxes ($3.6 billion, which Buffett says accounts for 1.
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theladders.com February 24, 2020
12 low-cost business ideas for introverts

If you identify as an introvert and are interested in your own low-cost startup, you could be an ideal candidate for starting your own business. Introverts are powerful in their own right. They are productive thinkers with strong opinions who can achieve much.
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hbr.org May 10, 2014
The Unexpected Antidote to Procrastination

A recent early morning hike in Malibu, California, led me to a beach, where I sat on a rock and watched surfers.
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hbr.org March 28, 2016
You Need to Practice Being Your Future Self

Being busy is not the same as being productive. It’s the difference between running on a treadmill and running to a destination. They’re both running, but being busy is running in place.
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seths.blog September 13, 2016
A value creation checklist

This project you’re working on, the new business or offering, what sort of value does it create?
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hbr.org July 18, 2014
Don’t Sell a Product, Sell a Whole New Way of Thinking

We all know the story. A team creates a groundbreaking new innovation only to see it mired in internal debates. When it is eventually launched in the market, there is an initial flurry of sales to early adopters, but then sales cycles become sluggish.
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bloomberg.com October 3, 2019
Everything Is Private Equity Now

Spurred by cheap loans and investors desperate to boost returns, buyout firms roam every corner of the corporate world. Low interest rates to finance deals? Check. A friendly political climate? Check. A long line of clients? Check.
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linkedin.com January 18, 2019
After 25 years studying innovation, here is what I have learned

It’s been more than 25 years since I wrote my first book, The Innovator’s Dilemma. Since that time I’ve learned that the best answers to the enormous problems we are struggling with always starts with asking the right question.
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economist.com May 14, 2016
The Slack generation

STEWART BUTTERFIELD, the boss of Slack, a messaging company, has been wonderfully unlucky in certain ventures. In 2002 he and a band of colleagues created an online-video game called “Game Neverending”.
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steveblank.com November 13, 2018
Steve Blank How to Keep Your Job As Your Company Grows

If you’re an early employee at a startup, one day you will wake up to find that what you worked on 24/7 for the last year is no longer the most important thing – you’re no longer the most important employee, and process, meetings, paperwork and managers and bosses have shown up.
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inc.com October 31, 2019
Adios, PowerPoint. This Simple Document Template Makes Meetings Shorter, Sweeter, and Smarter

Jeff Bezos and Jack Dorsey are among the highly successful CEOs who've banned PowerPoint, electing instead to start meetings with participants silently reading a hard-copy document (a.k.a. a "briefing document").
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nytimes.com July 28, 2019
A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First.

The stock market is in turmoil, the trade war is dragging on and the global economy is slowing. Plus, it’s been 10 years since the Great Recession ended, making this officially the longest expansion in American history. (Well, probably. More on that in a second.
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ideas.ted.com August 22, 2019
Want employees to be more engaged? Stop fixating on productivity — and start optimizing their leisure time

Humanity is in short supply at many workplaces, where it’s been pushed out by automation and a culture of overwork.
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hbr.org December 4, 2015
The Two Sides of Employee Engagement

Each year, companies are spending nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars in an effort to improve employee engagement — yet you’ll get wildly inconsistent answers if you ask managers what that means. Academics, consultants, and leaders have been grappling with that question for decades.
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esquire.com February 8, 2018
Silicon Valley’s Tax-Avoiding, Job-Killing, Soul-Sucking Machine

I’ve benefited enormously from big tech. Prophet, the consulting firm I cofounded in 1992, helped companies navigate a new landscape being reshaped by Google.
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hbr.org July 6, 2015
The Condensed Guide to Running Meetings

We love to hate meetings. And with good reason — they clog up our days, making it hard to get work done in the gaps, and so many feel like a waste of time.
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blog.ycombinator.com January 19, 2017
How Do You Measure Leadership?

Are you a good leader? How do you know? In a startup culture that is obsessed with management by metrics, many founders struggle to answer this critical question about themselves. It’s tempting to measure leaders simply by the success of their businesses.
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businessinsider.com January 9, 2019
Jeff Bezos' advice to Amazon employees is to stop aiming for work-life 'balance' — here's what you should strive for instead

At an April 2018 awards event hosted by Axel Springer and Business Insider US editor in chief Alyson Shontell, Bezos revealed the counterintuitive advice he offers new Amazon employees.
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hbr.org August 29, 2019
When Teamwork Is Good for Employees — and When It Isn’t

Most work today is done in teams. While teamwork can lead to innovative ideas and strong performance, it can also be stressful.
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andrewchen.co November 26, 2018
What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what.

[Dear readers, this essay is on the future of marketplaces. Is there still room for marketplace startups to innovate? We answer, emphatically, yes! Am excited to share a vision on the past and future of the service economy, in a collaboration by my a16z colleague Li Jin.
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nytimes.com December 12, 2019
A Recession Hasn’t Arrived (Yet). Here’s Where You’ll See It First.

For a few weeks last summer, you would have been forgiven for thinking the United States was racing headlong into a recession.
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medium.com September 15, 2016
What did Billion Dollar Companies Look Like at the Series A?

There is a lot of coverage of the companies that have reached valuations of over a billion dollars. Many of these companies were not always fast growing businesses.
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hbr.org May 1, 2013
Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything

Launching a new enterprise—whether it’s a tech start-up, a small business, or an initiative within a large corporation—has always been a hit-or-miss proposition.
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hbr.org October 26, 2016
Make Strategic Thinking Part of Your Job

Yes, you can incorporate strategic focus into your work, no matter how busy you are.
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nytimes.com January 26, 2019
Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?

I saw the greatest minds of my generation log 18-hour days — and then boast about #hustle on Instagram. When did performative workaholism become a lifestyle?
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inc.com June 10, 2019
Jeff Bezos Says This Is the Single Biggest Sign That Someone Is Intelligent (It's Counterintuitive)

There are plenty of opinions about what makes for the smartest people. I give more credence to those who judge from a place of having intense smarts and oversize results to match. Enter the opinion of one Jeff Bezos (an opinion that fellow columnist Jessica Stillman had an interesting take on).
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inc.com April 19, 2019
Here's How Google Knows in Less Than 5 Minutes if Someone Is a Great Leader

Great companies are built by great leaders. (That's why the ability to identify and attract talented people is almost as critical as the ability to develop talented people.) But since leadership is more art than science, how can you objectively determine if someone is a great leader?
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theatlantic.com February 3, 2020
How McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class

Updated at 9:54 a.m. ET on February 6, 2020. When Pete Buttigieg accepted a position at the management consultancy McKinsey & Company, he already had sterling credentials: high-school valedictorian, a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, a Rhodes Scholarship.
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inc.com May 4, 2017
4 Things Great Bosses Say to a New Employee That Most Bosses Never Think to Say

You work hard to find, interview, and hire the right employees. They have great skills, great experience, and great attitude. So once they're hired and in the door, all you need to do is set them loose, right? Not so fast.
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techcrunch.com April 14, 2016
How Google Analytics ruined marketing

Marketers in the high-tech world who use phrases such as “social media marketing,” “Facebook marketing” and “content marketing” do not understand the basic difference between marketing strategies, marketing channels and marketing content. And Google Analytics is to blame.
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pando.com October 12, 2015
The most patient man in Silicon Valley

Well, that was easy! Even Naval Ravikant was stunned at what he was hearing, mid-way through the first meeting between his company, AngelList, and Chinese private equity firm CSC Group.
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hbr.org January 23, 2015
What Is a Business Model?

In The New, New Thing, Michael Lewis refers to the phrase business model as “a term of art.” And like art itself, it’s one of those things many people feel they can recognize when they see it (especially a particularly clever or terrible one) but can’t quite define.
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mrmoneymustache.com June 21, 2017
Great News: There’s Another Recession Coming

If you’ve been keeping an eye on the US economy in recent years, you might notice that things are looking pretty darned rosy.
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hbr.org October 25, 2018
The Motivating (and Demotivating) Effects of Learning Others’ Salaries

Pay inequality is common in most workplaces. You get paid significantly more than your subordinates, your boss gets paid more than you, and your boss’s boss gets even more. In many large organizations, some employees can take home paychecks tens or hundreds of times more than others.
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theguardian.com August 23, 2017
Silicon Valley siphons our data like oil. But the deepest drilling has just begun

What if a cold drink cost more on a hot day? Customers in the UK will soon find out. Recent reports suggest that three of the country’s largest supermarket chains are rolling out surge pricing in select stores.
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nymag.com September 30, 2019
The Sun Sets on We

On August 23, the head of U.S. marketing for WeWork emailed several of her colleagues to deliver some bad news. She’d met with Google representatives the day before to go over WeWork’s planned spending on advertising and received a distressing report.
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wired.co.uk February 7, 2019
How SoftBank ate the world

On the morning of July 20, 2017, at the luxurious Prince Park Tower hotel in Tokyo, Masayoshi Son emerged on stage in front of a packed conference hall, his diminutive silhouette backlit by bright white lights.
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entrepreneur.com January 8, 2019
Can't Afford an MBA? Read These 6 Books to Educate Yourself Instead

Many entrepreneurs find themselves, at one time or another, wondering if they should go back to school to earn an MBA degree. It’s an understandable concern.
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fastcompany.com October 25, 2018
This McKinsey Study of 300 Companies Reveals What Every Business Needs to Know About Design

In a sweeping study of 2 million pieces of financial data and 100,000 design actions over five years, McKinsey found design-led companies had 32% more revenue and 56% higher total returns to shareholders compared with other companies.
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businessinsider.com April 12, 2017
Jeff Bezos explains the perfect way to make risky business decisions

Bezos was explaining how he goes about running the massive company Amazon has become — 341,000 employees — like a startup. That's a concept he calls Day 1.
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nirandfar.com July 13, 2016
Three Steps To Get Up To Speed On Any Subject Quickly

You have just a few days to learn everything there is to know about a subject you know nothing about. Now what?
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theatlantic.com December 5, 2018
Start-Ups Aren't Cool Anymore

At happy hours and class breaks, at the part-time MBA program I attend through the University of Texas at Austin, the conversation often drifts toward new business ideas. A mobile app to schedule text messages in the future. (Use case: Compose your best friend’s happy birthday text the day before.
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wired.co.uk October 8, 2019
This economist has a plan to fix capitalism. It's time we all listened

The idea that made Mariana Mazzucato one of the most influential economists in the world came to her in early 2011.
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hbr.org March 30, 2018
The Most Common Type of Incompetent Leader

Absentee leadership rarely comes up in today’s leadership or business literature, but research shows it is alarmingly common.
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nytimes.com November 30, 2019
Prime Mover: How Amazon Wove Itself Into the Life of an American City

For most people, it’s the click that brings a package to their door. But a look at Baltimore shows how Amazon may now reach into Americans’ daily existence in more ways than any corporation in history.
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hbr.org December 18, 2018
The 5 Things All Great Salespeople Do

The best salespeople know they’re the best. They take pride in their art form. They separate themselves from the rest of the pack regardless of circumstance. So how do they do it? What’s their secret? Are you one of them?
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theatlantic.com June 20, 2019
The Problem With HR

For 30 years, we’ve trusted human-resources departments to prevent and address workplace sexual harassment. How’s that working out?
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theverge.com August 15, 2019
WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera

On August 14th, The We Company (the company formerly known as WeWork) filed its mandatory S-1 paperwork to go public, and it’s worth reading in full. I mean, forget the serious stuff for a moment.
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hbr.org December 14, 2016
What Great Managers Do Daily

It’s difficult to measure and quantify what good management actually looks like. But there’s new data that can help.
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hbr.org September 10, 2019
8 Things Leaders Do That Make Employees Quit

Algorithms are becoming increasingly relevant in the workplace. From sifting through resumes to deciding who gets a raise, many of these new systems are proving to be highly valuable. But perhaps their most impressive, and relevant, capability is predicting which employees will quit.
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newyorker.com January 20, 2020
Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk?

For a certain sort of nineteenth-century person—the sort with high risk tolerance and little revulsion to brutality—a natural career lay in whaling. The odds of success here were, by almost every measure, poor. An expedition first needed to find whales in the vastness of the oceans.
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inc.com August 7, 2017
Google Spent Years Studying Effective Bosses. Now They Teach New Managers These 6 Things

The transition from individual contributor to manager is not an easy one. In many cases, the skills that got you the promotion will not be the same ones that make you effective as a manager.
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nytimes.com February 10, 2019
The Next Wave of ‘Unicorn’ Start-Ups

Uber and Airbnb were part of an early generation of tech start-ups that quickly reached $1 billion in value. The up-and-coming generation is looking very different.
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inc.com January 31, 2018
Jeff Bezos Just Shared His 3-Step Formula for Success--and It's Absolutely Brilliant

Shockwaves were sent through the health care industry yesterday when three corporate powerhouses--Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase--announced they were teaming up in attempt to provide better health care for their collective employees (which currently number over a million people).
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hbr.org February 6, 2017
Emotional Intelligence Has 12 Elements. Which Do You Need to Work On?

Emotional Intelligence is hardly one-size-fits-all. Here's how to make sure yours, and your teams', stays well-rounded.
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entrepreneur.com January 27, 2017
We Are All Salespeople. Use These 3 Techniques to Become a Better One.

This article was originally posted Feb. 2, 2016. You may not have the title of a salesperson, but it’s imperative that you polish up on your skills and become a better communicator to win in business and in life.
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medium.com January 18, 2017
How much does employee turnover really cost?

People are companies’ most important assets. We’ve all known this for a long time, but 1) we pay it lip service more often than we try to do something about it, and 2) it’s true more now than ever.
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fs.blog October 31, 2016
A Short List of Books for Doing New Things

Andrew Ng has quite the modern resume. He founded Coursera, a wonderful website that gives anyone with Internet access the ability to take high level university courses on almost any topic.
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hbr.org July 25, 2016
Using Design Thinking to Embed Learning in Our Jobs

Since we now expect learning to be as simple and compelling as watching YouTube, hundreds of video-based content providers and MOOCs offer free bite-sized content for us to consume on our phones while sitting in the coffee shop or standing in the subway.
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marker.medium.com January 29, 2020
Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

In 2011, I left my job as the second employee at Pinterest — before I vested any of my stock — to work on what I thought would be my life’s work. I thought Gumroad would become a billion-dollar company, with hundreds of employees. It would IPO, and I would work on it until I died.
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fastcompany.com August 29, 2019
How to address the pitfalls of remote work

The ability to work remotely is an important job feature for many candidates. The 2019 State of Remote Work report published by social media management platform Buffer found that 99% of respondents want to work remotely at least part of the time for the rest of their careers.
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fastcompany.com January 15, 2019
Everyone Hates Open Offices. Here’s Why They Still Exist.

Employees don’t like them. Research proves they’re ineffective. Why is it taking so long for us to get rid of them?
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hbr.org March 13, 2014
Why Good Managers Are So Rare

Gallup has found that one of the most important decisions companies make is simply whom they name manager. Yet our analysis suggests that they usually get it wrong. In fact, Gallup finds that companies fail to choose the candidate with the right talent for the job 82% of the time.
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economist.com August 24, 2017
The “free” economy comes at a cost

FACEBOOK, whose users visit for an average of 50 minutes a day, promises members: “It’s free and always will be.” It certainly sounds like a steal. But it is only one of the bargains that apparently litter the internet: YouTube watchers devour 1bn hours of videos every day, for instance.
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qz.com January 3, 2016
If you answer emails after work, you should be getting unlimited vacation

Whether you work in a cubicle, café, or corner office. This post originally appeared at LinkedIn. Follow the author here.
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stratechery.com August 20, 2019
The WeWork IPO

There is a reason — beyond the fact it is August — that WeWork’s upcoming IPO has driven so much discussion: it is a document defined by audaciousness, both in terms of the company’s vision and also the flagrant disregard for corporate governance norms by its leadership.
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hbr.org December 20, 2018
The Secret to Leading Organizational Change Is Empathy

I’m working with a CEO who’s in the midst of rethinking her company’s strategy so it can better meet customer demands and thrive financially. These are major changes that will affect every aspect of how the firm operates — from the services it offers to the structure of her organization.
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newyorker.com November 23, 2018
The Founder of Panera Bread Explains the Economic Forces That Led to Trump

The North American sandwich chain Panera Bread began as a single cookie shop called the Cookie Jar, which opened in downtown Boston in 1981. The next year, the shop’s founder, Ron Shaich, merged the Cookie Jar with a struggling French bakery called Au Bon Pain.
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andrewchen.co April 27, 2012
Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing

The rise of the Growth Hacker The new job title of “Growth Hacker” is integrating itself into Silicon Valley’s culture, emphasizing that coding and technical chops are now an essential part of being a great marketer.
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hbr.org July 25, 2017
Small Talk Is an Overrated Way to Build Relationships with Your Employees

The relationships that you form with each of your direct reports are central to your ability to fulfill your three core responsibilities as a manager: Create a culture of feedback, build a cohesive team, and achieve results collaboratively.
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alexdanco.com February 7, 2020
Debt is Coming

Ten years from now, what seismic change will we reflect back on and think, “well that was pretty obvious, in retrospect”? Debt is going to finally come to the tech industry.
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entrepreneur.com November 7, 2015
The Essential Guide to Writing a Business Plan

President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” If you’re starting a business, you should have a business plan regardless of whether you’re bootstrapping it or looking for outside funding.
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medium.com August 5, 2016
Homejoy at the Unicorn Glue Factory

It was Thanksgiving 2013 and the San Francisco offices of Homejoy were uncommonly quiet. The online home-cleaning startup was in the midst of an explosive expansion and only shut its doors two days each year: Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.
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medium.com February 15, 2019
Land of the “Super Founders“

Land of the “Super Founders“— A Data-Driven Approach to Uncover the Secrets of Billion Dollar StartupsI Spent 300 Hours Gathering Data On Billion-Dollar Startups and Here’s 100 Charts You Shouldn’t MissAbout 15 months ago, I embarked on a journey to answer a personal question: what did bil
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blogs.wsj.com June 3, 2014
Jessica Livingston: Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing

JESSICA LIVINGSTON: The most important thing an early-stage startup should know about marketing is rather counterintuitive: that you probably shouldn’t be doing anything you’d use the term “marketing” to describe. Sales and marketing are two ends of a continuum.
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hbr.org April 10, 2017
A New, More Rigorous Study Confirms: The More You Use Facebook, the Worse You Feel

Face-to-face interactions and positive relationships have long been seen as beneficial, but the digital world of social media may be having the opposite effect.
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hbr.org September 27, 2016
How the Best CEOs Get the Important Work Done

If you’re a chief executive officer, your job is to execute. It’s written right into your title. But what does it mean, in terms of daily tasks, to be the company’s top “executer?” After all, CEOs don’t actually build factories or sell products.
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entrepreneur.com April 30, 2018
How to Overcome Common Challenges and Help Your Small Business Grow

In light of National Small Business Week, I’ve been thinking a lot about the challenges that keep small businesses from doing more business and what these entrepreneurs, who already wear so many hats, can do to overcome them.
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fastcompany.com May 4, 2015
From Passion To Profit: How To Make Money Doing What You Love

These people used technology to turn their passions into careers. Here’s what they learned along the way.
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blog.zamzar.com June 10, 2016
Deal of the century? How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14 million

This is part one of a series of stories from Robert Gaskins who helped invent PowerPoint at Forethought Inc. in 1984. It was the first significant acquisition made by Microsoft.
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qz.com February 5, 2019
The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

The pursuit of monopoly has led Silicon Valley astray. Look no further than the race between Lyft and Uber to dominate the online ride-hailing market. Both companies are gearing up for their IPOs in the next few months.
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theatlantic.com May 7, 2019
The Peculiar Blindness of Experts

The bet was on, and it was over the fate of humanity. On one side was the Stanford biologist Paul R. Ehrlich. In his 1968 best seller, The Population Bomb, Ehrlich insisted that it was too late to prevent a doomsday apocalypse resulting from overpopulation.
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hbr.org February 3, 2017
8 Ways to Read (a Lot) More Books

Tips to drastically increase how many pages you get through in today’s fast-paced digital world.
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hbr.org January 18, 2017
Being a Strategic Leader Is About Asking the Right Questions

If you asked the world’s most successful business leaders what it means to “be strategic,” how many different answers do you think you’d get? Consider this number: 115,800,000. It’s the number of unique links returned when I searched online for “strategic leadership.”
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25iq.com September 17, 2017
A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs

The 25IQ blog posts below have been rewritten and are now part of a new book that will benefit the author’s chosen charity: No Kid Hungry. The author will be directing his share of the profits from both hardcover and Kindle sales to this charity.
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onezero.medium.com November 12, 2019
Unraveling the Secret Origins of an AmazonBasics Battery

heard the “pop!” from my living room as a brand-new pack of Amazon batteries spontaneously exploded on the kitchen counter, oozing a gritty black substance in fits and spurts. The small, unassuming item is one of Amazon’s most popular “in-house” products sold under the AmazonBasics label.
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nytimes.com May 2, 2019
How America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery

The news spread around Huntsville, Ala., in the winter of 2014. Remington, the country’s oldest gun maker, had decided to expand from its historic home in upstate New York to a gigantic former Chrysler factory near the airport.
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qz.com May 29, 2017
“Personal Kanban”: A Life-Changing Time-Management System That Explodes the Myth of Multitasking

How to visualize and organize your work.
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fivethirtyeight.com March 3, 2016
The Next Amazon (Or Apple, Or GE) Is Probably Failing Right Now

When Jeff Bezos founded an online bookstore in 1994, no one could have guessed that in less than 15 years, Amazon would fundamentally reshape the U.S. retail landscape.
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bloomberg.com August 10, 2019
The World’s Wealthiest Family Gets $4 Million Richer Every Hour

The numbers are mind-boggling: $70,000 per minute, $4 million per hour, $100 million per day. That’s how quickly the fortune of the Waltons, the clan behind Walmart Inc., has been growing since last year’s Bloomberg ranking of the world’s richest families.
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stratechery.com April 30, 2019
Microsoft, Slack, Zoom, and the SaaS Opportunity

It is difficult to discuss enterprise software without at least mentioning Microsoft, and there is no better time than now: last week the company (briefly) became the third U.S.
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qz.com September 3, 2019
Whatever happened to Six Sigma?

The people and companies embracing new paradigms. Twenty years ago, no company was flying higher than General Electric. In early 2000, GE passed Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable company.
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hbr.org April 23, 2018
How Humble Leadership Really Works

When you’re a leader — no matter how long you’ve been in your role or how hard the journey was to get there — you are merely overhead unless you’re bringing out the best in your employees. Unfortunately, many leaders lose sight of this.
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hbr.org December 1, 2015
What Is Disruptive Innovation?

The theory of disruptive innovation, introduced in these pages in 1995, has proved to be a powerful way of thinking about innovation-driven growth.
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hbr.org January 18, 2017
10 Minutes of Mindfulness Changes Your Reactions

Tips for avoiding rash decisions and reaching thoughtful conclusions.
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bbc.com March 24, 2016
The hidden psychology of failure

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Words of wisdom heralded throughout our upbringing, to be sure. But is there any scientific proof that successive failure is positive and propels innovation forwards?
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campfirelabs.co January 10, 2019
How I Built a $5,000 per Month Side Project

Passive income. The 4 hour work week. The dream. As a millennial there are few things that rank as desirable as finding a recurring source of income that doesn’t take much work (or a boss).
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wired.com August 13, 2019
Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech

On a bright Monday in January 2017, at 2:30 in the afternoon, about a thousand Google employees—horrified, alarmed, and a little giddy—began pouring out of the company's offices in Mountain View, California.
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