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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. The team is using publicly available social media data to assess whether a given user ID refers to a real person, a real person acting under a false persona, or a bot. Team Presentations: Week 4.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 4

Steve Blank

The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. The team is using publicly available social media data to assess whether a given user ID refers to a real person, a real person acting under a false persona, or a bot. Team Presentations: Week 4.

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Learn your Austin ABC’s and become a local super-connector

Austin Startup

I’d start by trying to follow them on social media to get to know them a bit, and then reach out with a relevant intro request through LinkedIn. He launched his first startup to bring the first cell phone technology onto the battlefield in Afghanistan. How do you meet them?

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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

We live in a social media universe now and all of them, particularly in the NBA, have very large platforms. And the good news is they're social media babies, right? But this is not a standard operating procedure. We are seeing more and more companies over the last three years that have a social component to them.

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Your New Competitive Advantage (It’s Not What You Think)

Duct Tape Marketing

Best practices tell small businesses to be more active on their website, blog more, use social media, etc. Previously Gabe served as a Captain in the Marine Corps for 8 years, spending 2 years between Iraq and Afghanistan operating on small, embedded advisor teams. We end up unfocused and unproductive.

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Customer Service Lessons for Entrepreneurs from United Airlines

Small Business Force

And finally, just last week they charged a returning serviceman from Afghanistan $200 because his checked duffel bag was overweight. With social media nearly driving the PR bus, it’s hard to gauge what customers are feeling. Come fly the friendly skies? Continually, get and use customer feedback to help you stay focused.

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We Have Only Scratched the Surface of the True Value of Twitter. Here’s What You’re Missing

Both Sides of the Table

The other thing that isn’t talked about enough in the mainstream media about Twitter is the predictive nature of open Twitter data in and of itself. talk about their Twitter integration and how you can use Twitter analytics to better monitor social media conversion on marketing campaigns. I'm late and on the road.I

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