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The Search For the Fountain of Youth – Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Enterprise

Steve Blank

They start with an innovation, search for a repeatable business model, build the infrastructure for a company, then grow by efficiently executing the model. The Quest for Resilience, Gary Hamel / Liisa Valikangas : Sept 2003. - The Ambidextrous Organization, Charles O’Reilly / Michael Tushman : April 2004. Charles Darwin.

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PC For Rent – How To Make Money Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

YoungUpstarts

The first project of this kind was GIMPS , a large-scale program launched in 1996 for the purpose of searching for Mersenne prime numbers , that is prime numbers of the form 2 p — 1 where P is a random integer. It analyzes radio signals from the outer space searching for extraterrestrial civilizations.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

A lot of people ask me what it was like raising the Series A round for LinkedIn back in 2003. I thought I’d revisit it and share the story… First, you have to rewind mentally to early 2003. Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). conference happened at the end of 2004).

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Optimized Reviews May Be the Next Local SEO Edge :: Small Business.

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Today Google added an interesting twist to Google Maps searches called Descriptive Terms that injects another dynamic – search optimized reviews. Google has started indexing local search results with phrases that accompany things like reviews. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. All rights reserved.

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Google Finally Weaving Local Strategy :: Small Business Marketing.

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Of late, however, it looks like they just might be getting their local strategy together and marshaling a suite new features combined with existing assets to put themselves in position to take a giant leap in the local reviews, local offers, and local social games to go with their strong local search position. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Did Google Just Create the Click to Schedule Ad Unit :: Small.

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Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac. Currently Facebook boasts somewhere in excess of 400 mi. All rights reserved.

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Google Adds Reputation Management to Dashboard :: Small Business.

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