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Why Corporate Dysfunction Is Deadly

YoungUpstarts

The crash took a year to incubate. Marketing joined the fray and Matt raced the company rapidly over a cliff. Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. And true to their word, senior management promoted Matt amidst great fanfare. Start today.

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Twitter Link Roundup #144 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Incubator 1871 Nurtures Chicago’s Growing Startup Scene – [link]. Market – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. The capital of Kenya, Nairobi, is a vibrant city offering various resources for young start – ups, including accelerator 88MPH and incubator i-Hub. Sam Gichuru CEO at nailab.

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Wi-Fi Alliance Moves Up and Out

Austin Startup

Sometimes with the help of start-up incubators, like the University of Texas’ Austin Technology Incubator (ATI). Before this, it was housed, since inception in 1999, within the walls of ATI, where the Wi-Fi Alliance and ATI built a unique, collaborative relationship. They thought the market could be significant if IEEE 802.11

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

My advice was to keep doing the SharePoint solution development and consulting work the company does today and develop the store project as a side effort until the market is ready. He is heading straight into an intensely competitive market without adequate differentiation or competitive positioning. He currently has a 1999 strategy.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

The market for the product simply wasn’t a good one. At the beginning of Coremetrics in 1999, the market risk was whether or not companies would embrace the outsourced model (what we called ASP, or Application Service Providers, back then, and are now called SaaS, or Software as a Service, or “cloud” providers). and negative?—?voice

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Wall Street, Football, and The Great Deception

Growthink Blog

Now while I have a very high regard for the intellectual capacity and market savvy of the typical football fan, these ads did beg the question – “Are football fans, between commercials on Sundays, really out there checking the opening of the Nikkei, gathering market intelligence, and placing their buys and sells before the game action returns?”