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It’s An Agile World

Feld Thoughts

” I started experiencing, and understanding, agile in 2004 when I made an investment in Rally Software. The backend infrastructure that handles all the Internet connectivity and services for a world-wide distributed technology that was built by a team of 150 engineers overseas. operates at seven 9s reliability.

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Google Adds Reputation Management to Dashboard :: Small Business.

Duct Tape Marketing

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. I’ve been promoting tools like Google Alerts and Google Reader for years now and today Google added something called “ Me on the Web &# as an attempt to make it easier to monitor your identity on the web. .

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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com. The focus of our first segment with Eric was, “What is the Lean Startup” and how did it start? He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU and then authored The Lean Startup.

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Start Your Marketplace Engines

Genuine VC

Communities like those of uTest (software QA testers), as well as NextView portfolio companies GrabCAD (mechanical engineers) and thredUP (parents), which resulted in marketplaces had origins in this approach. Attract would-be buyers with research/learning about purchasing … suppliers will follow. Brute force a mini-market and expand.

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From Loyalty Programs To Fan Clubs, A Paradigm Shift

YoungUpstarts

My company won the ROI of The Year award from The Banker magazine in 2004, something I was very proud of. Social media is seen as something new that can be bolted onto existing CRM and loyalty management platforms. Engineers initially failed to understand the new possibilities of the new paradigm.

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Google Finally Weaving Local Strategy :: Small Business Marketing.

Duct Tape Marketing

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. I took note of both and wrote quick updates – The first was the addition of optimized reviews in Places Pages and the second was the addition of reputation management features in Profile Pages. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Monitoring Relationship Status :: Small Business Marketing Blog.

Duct Tape Marketing

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Business owners must learn to manage and juggle a complex and shifting combination of customer, partner, vendor, staff and advisory relationships in order to survive and grow. Note: There have been some updates since I published th.