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Three Often Overlooked Benefits of Joining a Peer Group of Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

As the founder of Poe Group Advisors , a company that has been facilitating the sale and transfer of accounting firms since 2003, Brannon is no stranger to connecting people and growing an organization. We decided we want a chapter culture that strives for business growth and plenty of time to enjoy our families and life.

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Q&A with Meg Salyer

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Founder, and former President and CEO. She served as the first woman president of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, (2003/2004), one of the largest Rotary Club in the world. McGee Award and was the 2003 Journal Record Woman of the Year. Q&A with Meg Salyer. of Accel Financial Staffing. President and CEO, Broadway Realty.

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For Those Recently Laid Off From Google, Leaving Your Job Doesn’t Mean Losing Your Identity.

Hunter Walk

Google was about 1,000 people when I started in 2003, which means last week’s layoffs were more than an order of magnitude larger than the entire company I’d originally joined. High performers and culture carriers for years — terminated via email and without the opportunity to celebrate their time with their teams.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

Both Sides of the Table

For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean co-founders or might just mean senior execs of the business. The Mind of the Founder. The mind of a founder is wired differently than most people. The startup CEO was not the original founder.

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Not A Conventional Company

Tomasz Tunguz

Google had grown from $220k in revenue in 19aw99, to $19M in 2000, to $86M in 2001, to $347M in 2002, to $961M in 2003, and would record $3.2B Digging past the business revealed a wonderful culture. But that feeling was more than just a product of the rocket ship growth of the ads business. in 2004, the year of their IPO.

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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.