Mon.Aug 26, 2019

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For Greater Retention, Offer a Stake in the Company

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Written for EO by Jeff Thompson , managing partner at Windermere Group One (WGO). What do 9-to-5 office workers and rock stars have in common? Maybe not much on the surface, but their incentives should be similar. Though each member of a band brings unique skills to the enterprise, they have to pull together as a team to make better music than the competition.

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Benchmarking DataDog's S-1: How 7 Key Metrics Stack up

Tomasz Tunguz

Recently, we’ve seen a series of product-driven companies building huge customer bases with tremendous account expansion and terrific sales efficiency. DataDog is no exception. DataDog provides a very popular IT monitoring solution that has grown from its founding in 2010 to a huge business. During that time the product has grown from infrastructure monitoring to application performance management, logging and user experience products.

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Some Seriously Great News. No, Seriously …

Both Sides of the Table

Some Seriously Great News. No, Seriously … Exactly six years ago today I received an email from my friend Ynon Kreiz introducing me to Andrew Stalbow and Petri Järvilehto. Ynon had been the CEO of Maker Studios and I trust his opinion a great deal so of course I took the meeting. Andrew and Petri had left game developer Rovio (of Angry Birds fame) and were creating a new games company called Seriously that would combine compelling intellectual property (characters), great narratives, and fun gam

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Is Ethereum the AOL of Crypto?

Continuations

Of course Ethereum is not a walled garden the way AOL was. Anyone can write and deploy a smart contract, whereas adding functionality to AOL required a contract and a custom implementation. What I means instead is that much of AOL’s growth in both revenues and functionality was financed by AOL itself. AOL made a lot of investments in startups which then purchased advertising on AOL, at least in the early days of this, extended AOLs functionality.

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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6 Easy, inexpensive surprise and delight ideas your coworking members

GCUC

Everyone likes a surprise. Actually strike that, not everyone likes a surprises but almost everyone likes free fun gifts or experiences. As a coworking space owner who is in charge of lots of humans, these “surprise and delight” moments can add up and be costly. We are here to tell you they dont have to be. Check out our budget friendly hacks for community treats.

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[PlaySight in Globe Newswire] ITA Adopts PlaySight’s PlayFair Video Replay Technology

OurCrowd

Today, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) is excited to announce that it has officially approved PlaySight’s PlayFair video challenge replay system heading into the 2019-2020 season after a successful three-year pilot. PlayFair enables multi-angle video review for line call challenges, with the mission to improve sportsmanship throughout college tennis and increase participation in and viewership of the sport.