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[Asia] Getting Cloud Computing Right The First Time

YoungUpstarts

During the Forum, Cloud Computing was highlighted as the number one technology priority for companies in 2012. The Hong Kong government was out in full force at the event as well, sharing their challenges in putting together a case for Cloud adoption by the government. The Sleeping Dragon Awakes in China.

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Understanding the Importance of Board Transparency

Board Effect

For nonprofits, technology offers many avenues for storytelling, which effectively further nonprofit missions. Technology enables interconnectivity that allows ratings agencies and apps to draw data from multiple sources, consolidate it, and condense it before presenting it to stakeholders. That’s right!

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How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

ConversionXL

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., It wasn’t that they didn’t want to pay, but for anything above a certain dollar amount, it had to be a committee decision, and Universities are a notoriously bad market to crack (probably second to the government). we began by building chat servers.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

Pascal's View

i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 This is a good example of technology driven market change being accelerated by new securities regulations). Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. iii. Post bubble period 2001-2009 totals $218.2 cents or 6.25

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Favorite Longreads of 2012

abovethecrowd.com

Technically, this article was published in 2011, but that should not stop it from being further distributed. This is an amazing lesson in how everyone can get it wrong for decades – the scientists, the government, and the doctors. Gary Taubes, as well as others, have uncovered the real cause of America’s obesity.