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It’s easy to draw up a list of charismatic business leaders. Richard Branson. Coco Chanel. Lee Iacocca. These are the kinds of people we make movies about. They build or reinvent massive companies through the sheer force of their personalities. Everyone has tales of these leaders taking …
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Social coding site GitHub recently announced a trove of new features for its platform, including the ability to create project boards to better track development. I read a lot of comments about how Github projects would “finally kill Trello” and other project management software. Many people figured …
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I’ve been reading “Burn Your Portfolio,” a book full of business and life advice for designers. Mike Janda, the author, worked as a creative director at Fox before founding (and later selling) the creative agency Riser. Janda compresses his wisdom into short sections of a page or two each, which …
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I’ll get emails on my phone all the time in random places where I'm not in a position to address the issue being asked of me. I get a lot of anxiety about things slipping through the cracks. I don't want to read an email, and then forget to get back to the person/task by the time I’m in the …
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It's stinking hard to compete with the monster companies in our industry. How can we? They raise lots of money, have crazy valuations, and have signed up all of the "cool" brands to use their software. They get to display all of those brands on their website for instant credibility. We don't have …
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My best friend Brian and I, (who also happens to be the one that coded Yalla) went to college together. We took all of the same classes together and spent almost every waking minute together for about 2 years. We majored in business administration with an emphasis in CIS. The thing is...we didn't …
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