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Beyond Moore’s Law

Daniel Burrus

Moore, cofounder of Intel and Fairchild Semiconductor, Moore’s Law deals with processing power, the speed at which a machine can perform a particular task. For some, the “cause of death” is purely technical—a transistor can only be made so much more powerful and smaller, they say. Moore’s Law Defined—and Reborn. Named after Gordon E.

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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

And as part of a contingent staffing strategy, emerging businesses and startups can afford access to outstanding technical experts that would otherwise be cost prohibitive on a full-time basis. But business and government leaders have much to learn about designing their organizations to ensure the full benefits of accessing agile talent.

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Why You May Be Blind to a Good Idea (and What to Do About It)

Harvard Business Review

Since we can't see what we can't see, the speaker showed us a video designed to catch us in the act. I'm cofounder of an organization that develops innovative learning practices and technologies. My organization calls this method "collaboration by difference." So we also have meetings designed to see what we're missing.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

In a similar vein, Stanford had few large corporate partners to collaborate with, and so sought out entrepreneurs. The problem that Etosha and her cofounders ran into when they first sought to leverage the Silicon Valley ecosystem to get their business off the ground was that venture investors typically want to see a real product.

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Lessons from Yelp’s Empirical Approach to Diversity

Harvard Business Review

These figures were similar at other tech companies, most of which had fewer than 20% of their technical positions filled by women and had low representation of black and Hispanic employees. … When we designed the platform, three white guys, there were a lot of things we didn’t think about.”