September, 2012

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

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by Enrico Moretti, author of “ The New Geography of Jobs ” Over the past three months, Facebook, Zynga and Groupon have lost between 33% and 52% of their market value. They are not alone. Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector.

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Seven Things Your Customers Can Do Better Than You

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by Bill Lee, author of “ The Hidden Wealth of Customers: Realizing the Untapped Value of Your Most Important Asset “ The old paradigm works like this: Your company produces goods and services that help customers get a job done. In return, the customers pay you money. You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to

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Oops, My Bad!: Five Ways Your Business Can Improve By Admitting To Mistakes

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by Michael Houlihan, coauthor of “ The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built a Bestseller “. It seems our society has turned dodging responsibility into an art form. From celebrities who insist that a brush with the law was all a big misunderstanding to political figures who use spin and double-speak to blame everything on the other side, no one wants to admit it when they mess up.

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[Competition] Expand My Brand

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If you run a social marketing technology startup, check out the U.S.-based EXPANDMYBRAND Startup Challenge , organized by social media agency EDGE Collective. Touted as the first-ever startup competition for marketing technology companies where the brands and customers have the final say in the winner, EXPANDMYBRAND is looking for five lucky emerging social technology startups who will get to pitch to a panel of representatives from top brands such as Starbucks, Nike, Macy’s and Gap as wel

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How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

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by Ian Smith of Captricity. This is not about running a startup badly, it’s about not doing the things that are not core to your business. The world has changed a lot lately and just about every aspect of a technology company – and especially a web-based company – can be “moved out” to a web-based application provider at a lower cost than doing it yourself.

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The 10 Best Teams Ever Assembled (And What We Can Learn From Them)

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No man is an island. From time to time, we all find we’ve gone as far as we can go on our own. Therein lays the beauty of teamwork: a helping hand to pick you up and see you through to the end. To celebrate the joy of working together, we’ve compiled the definitive list of the best teams ever assembled, along with what each of them has to teach us. We made our picks from all walks of life, from sports to space and from fictional to factual.

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[Review] Execution – The Discipline of Getting Things Done

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How do companies like GE, Wal-Mart and Honeywell succeed? What is the secret of Jack Welch, one of the most legendary CEO in the business world today? The secret, according to Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, is “ Execution “ Subtitled The Discipline of Getting Things Done , the New York Times bestseller emphasizes the importance of execution in business, how companies with an execution culture conduct their business affairs, and its three core processes: people, strategy and operations