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Links for September 8th

linkposter — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:05:19 +0000

linkposter — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:02:36 +0000

Amazon.com: The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations (9781591841432): Ori Brafman, Rod A. Beckstrom: Books - Brafman and Beckstrom, a pair of Stanford M.B.A.s who have applied their business know-how to promoting peace and economic development through decentralized networking, offer a breezy and entertaining look at how decentralization is changing many organizations.

linkposter — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:00:45 +0000

linkposter — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:01:33 +0000

Triple vs. Compact Double — Again! « Bike Noob - A distant relative has been going through the same biking metamorphosis that I went through a few years ago. He wants to get a new road bike, to replace the hybrid he’s been riding. But he’s agonizing over the purchase.
Austin News: Hell or High Water - AustinChronicle.com - With a monster municipal issue like Water Treatment Plant No. 4, not everyone's going to be on the same page. But with a flurry of lawsuits and revolt at one of the plant's staging sites, it's getting so opponents can't agree on why to hate the plant.

linkposter — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:03:12 +0000

Heroku | Ruby Cloud Platform as a Service - Hosted Ruby
The 2010 Inc. 5000 | AustinStartup - Keep in mind that not all companies are comfortable reporting their revenues to the public. So this list will only contain the companies that feel comfortable disclosing details.
Zenoss - Annapolis, MD - The Inc.5000 - Zenoss 2009 Revenue
How to Minimize Politics in Your Company // ben's blog - Sadly, you needn’t be political to create extreme political behavior in your organization. In fact, it’s often the least political CEOs who run the most ferociously political organizations. Apolitical CEOs frequently accidentally encourage intense political behavior.

linkposter — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:00:54 +0000

Sales Skills Lesson 3 - Ecademy - hese factors tell you if there is a deal to be won. What you really need to know though is if you have a good chance of winning it yourself.
Meddic Sales Process - Salespodder: because today's salespeople should … - Searching for a pair of old Ray-Ban shades, I came across some slides from a training course I once attended on a terrific sales process. The mnemonic ‘meddic’ comes from:

linkposter — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:02:46 +0000

Search Engine Guys - Austin Web marketer The Search Engine Guys LLC has doubled its South Lamar office to about about 4,252 square feet.

Read more: The Search Engine Guys double S. Lamar office - Austin Business Journal

linkposter — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:02:10 +0000

The Ninth Yard - I'm a believer in defining the scope of a project before starting and putting a fixed price tag on it. This keeps the project to manageable, finishable scope and encourages the developers to work smartly.

linkposter — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:02:26 +0000

Marin Software - Marin Software, a startup that creates search engine management software for advertisers and agencies, is now offering advanced applications for advertising on Facebook.
Who Needs Product Management? — World's most popular product management … - “There will always, one can assume, be need for some selling. But the aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous. The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well that the product or service fits him, and sells itself.”—Peter Drucker

linkposter — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:02:20 +0000

3PAR Thin Provisioning Software - Since its introduction, 3PAR® Thin Provisioning software has become widely considered the gold standard in thin provisioning, helping customers minimize up-front capacity purchases by an average of 60% and meet Green IT targets.
Qcue sinks deals with NBA - Austin Business Journal - Software firm and dynamic-pricing specialist Qcue Inc. has signed deals with three NBA teams for the coming season.
Smoothstone Lands $48M | AustinStartup - It’s been almost two years since we first saw Smooth-Stone pitch their business at the Rice Alliance venture forum. The company has been making steady progress, culminating in a huge round of financing