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Advice from Warren Rustand: Put Your Head Down and Walk Into the Storm

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Rustand says he’s had calls from more than 300 business leaders at small and medium-sized companies looking for advice. In terms of pandemics, we remember avian flu (1997), SARS (2003) and MERS (2012). About a third of them have already closed their businesses, or will do so soon. The last third seems like they will make it.

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The best way to grow your tech career? Treat it like an app

TechCrunch

As CTO, Raj Yavatkar is responsible for charting Juniper Networks ' technology strategy through the execution of the company’s innovations and products for intelligent self-driving networks, security, mobile edge cloud, network virtualization, packet-optical integration and hybrid cloud. Raj Yavatkar. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . I’m not looking to invest there – I’m looking to understand the trends, the people, the innovation, the regions and how China can become an integral part of any of my portfolio companies as they scale.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . I’m not looking to invest there – I’m looking to understand the trends, the people, the innovation, the regions and how China can become an integral part of any of my portfolio companies as they scale.

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Embrace Losing

Both Sides of the Table

In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. We assumed they would take our advice and upgrade. We in the tech world extol the virtues of lots of product releases and rapid innovation. In the corporate world this strategy is flawed. Tags: Start-up Advice. I will embrace my losses.

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Rustic Canyon Speaks out on GaiKai Exit, Changing Nature of VC, LA Tech & More

Both Sides of the Table

But my take: Gaikai had superior technology & a superior business strategy. We spent a bunch of time in the video talking about “disruption” as described by Clay Christensen in his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemman” which I profiled here. I agree with him.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.