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Are Return to Office Mandates the Real Reason Behind Quiet Quitting?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Introduced in March 2002, it only started to gain traction as an issue of concern among business leaders when US government data on productivity , released in August 2022, showed a sharp, unexpected drop in Q1 and Q2 of 2022. So what explains the drop in productivity associated with quiet quitting? However, it’s not always easy.

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How Venture Funding For Early-Stage Startups Will Change During the COVID-19 Crisis

Dream It

eBay hosted a jobs fair in 2002 for 75 jobs and 2,000 people showed up,” states Martino. Founders have grown accustomed to supervoting stock structures as VCs agree to loosen terms to get a stake in the funding event, essentially giving these founders authority over their own boards. “I It wasn’t fear, it was boredom,” states Martino.

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Back to the Drawing Board

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I founded Source Security in 2002. Time to go back to the drawing board! Establishing this new model allowed us to replicate the Southwest Airlines strategy, which was to provide the best service at the best price, in a commoditized industry. The post Back to the Drawing Board appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Jedox raises over $100M to expand its financial modeling and analytics software to more verticals

TechCrunch

Jedox got its start way back in 2002, and in a way is a very typical European startup story. Winterstein notes that its efforts were all open source-based and that the company was “not commercial at all, a lot of tech geeks and German engineering types that were not overly experienced in go-to-market strategies.”

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. They seem to have bounced back nicely. Your highs are super high.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. They seem to have bounced back nicely. Your highs are super high.

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3 Go-to-Market Insights from Kenny van Zant at SaaS Office Hours

Tomasz Tunguz

He was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002. Freemium is a great go to market strategy , but only if the business meets several characteristics. In flywheel models, the product and on-boarding flows must do this. First, the company has to be a product driven company not a sales driven company.

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