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From Loyalty Programs To Fan Clubs, A Paradigm Shift

YoungUpstarts

Loyalty programs have not changed much since the first airline loyalty cards took off more than 30 years ago. Survey after survey show that in most cases, businesses have no clear way of calculating the ROI of their loyalty programs. We discovered that fan pages on Facebook could become the heart of new generation loyalty programs.

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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

After helping build the first Ethernet switch startup, I was attracted by Asynchronous Transfer Mode 25Mbit/sec technology, (ATM25) which was 2.5x The result: great success of my third startup, a load balancing technology for web servers back in the late 1990’s. faster than Ethernet and ran data but plus voice and video.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

“My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Their idea is that consumers will want a subscription service for short form entertainment (10-minute programs) for mobile rather than full length movies. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. He just hired Meg Whitman.

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Mentors 6/18: The Best Mentor Relationships Eventually Become Two-Way

Feld Thoughts

While I’m proud of all the Techstars programs, some of what I heard yesterday, especially around mentor engagement in the Disney program was remarkable. In Disney’s case, the access, exposure, and support of the Disney executives as mentors for the 11 companies in the program has been extraordinary.

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Transformify Partners with Genashtim to Help Bridge the Skills Gap

Transformify

Over the next decade, the humanity will witness more technological change than it has seen in the past 50 years. Thus, the demand for knowledgeable workers with high levels of technical and soft skills will only increase.

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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

Voices.com , an online marketplace that matches voice actors with advertising agencies and TV and radio stations, began in 2004 as an idea scribbled down on a napkin by newlyweds David and Stephanie Ciccarelli. Don’t get focused on the tech or how to dominate the market, just identify a problem and set about solving it.

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