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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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From Seed to Flower: Growing a Strong Network Through Direct Relationships

Yet2

yet2 ’s network has been built across multiple channels to include small and large companies, technical experts and scouting partners. Direct relationships are powerful because proximity allows for better communication and collaboration. yet2 was founded by cofounders Ben DuPont and Phil Stern in 1999.

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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. Others are new to managing or stronger technically than as a supervisor. Here’s the problem. Some are excellent.

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

Harvard Business Review

I'm cofounder of an organization that develops innovative learning practices and technologies. My organization calls this method "collaboration by difference." To get the same result, a team has to structure its interactions in a way that disrupts attention blindness. When our team meets, we put on the agenda: "What are we missing?"

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What New Team Leaders Should Do First

Harvard Business Review

People form opinions pretty quickly, and these opinions tend to be sticky,” says Michael Watkins, the cofounder of Genesis Advisers and author of the updated The First 90 Days. “If I figured the non-techies had some understanding of our technical team’s processes, and knew how we worked by virtue of shared office osmosis,” Czarina says. “I

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Why CEOs Should Share Their Long-Term Plans with Investors

Harvard Business Review

Given this, CECP partnered with KKS Advisors, an advisory and research firm where one of us works and the other is cofounder, to explore the information content of these plans, create a framework analyzing the content of the reports, and examine how capital market participants respond to them.

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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.