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Neuromarketing Ethics: How Far Is Too Far?

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One early researcher was Edward Bernays—Sigmund Freud’s nephew—who coined the term “public relations.”. Decades later, in 2002, Dutch marketing professor Ale Smidts coined the term “neuromarketing.” Bernays believed that people could be influenced via crowd psychology and psychoanalysis.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002. Michael Chan.

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