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6th December 2005

How to Start a Startup

“You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed.”

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6th December 2005

Things Great Managers Do

“…Marcus Buckingham has written an outstanding Harvard Business Review article outlining the traits of great managers. The article is a synopsis of his recently released book titled, The One Thing You Need to Know ‚Ķ and below is a scalpel/suture of my takeaways from the article.”

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6th December 2005

Google: Ten Golden Rules

“At google, we think business guru Peter Drucker well understood how to manage the new breed of ‘knowledge workers.’ After all, Drucker invented the term in 1959. He says knowledge workers believe they are paid to be effective, not to work 9 to 5, and that smart businesses will ’strip away everything that gets in their knowledge workers’ way.’ Those that succeed will attract the best performers, securing ‘the single biggest factor for competitive advantage in the next 25 years.’”

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6th December 2005

Online Resources Small Businesses Shouldn’t Live Without

A few basic web sites for businesses.

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