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The Firewall Is Dead – What Can Businesses Do To Protect And Secure Their Brands?

YoungUpstarts

Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. Breaches involving health information, trade secrets, and intellectual property can be devastating for the affected brand. So what can organizations do? Think again.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. These Key Performance Indicators and processes are what make a company efficient —but they are also the root cause of its inability to be agile and innovative.

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The Rise of the Lean VC – Consumer Internet Gets Its Own Investors

Steve Blank

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. The Rise of the “Lean VC’s” – Consumer Internet Gets Funded. Here’s why. Electron-based Venture Capital.

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19 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Being a Trademark Attorney and owner of an Intellectual Property Law Firm, The Law Firm of Andrea Hence Evans, LLC, I know the importance of launching a business with a strong name that is not generic but rather suggestive and requires some thought or imagination. After all, why would you want to stand out on the internet?

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The Billion Dollar Breakthrough You Missed

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

It’s interesting that large organizations with lots of intellectual property don’t systematically examine what they can combine to innovate. Do this experiment: Make a list of the new digital technologies (AI, Social Media, Internet of Things, Robotics).

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Workstreamer Launches Public Beta

Austin Startup

Everyone is so focused on search that they’re going to miss the bigger opportunity, which I think is making meaning out of the massive amount of information on the internet, not just searching it. The name gives you a slight window into what they do, but it’s like one click business listening.

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Digital Technology MoshPit

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

All frameworks (Agile, Lean, CPS, Design Thinking, Stage-Gate) require people to come up with fresh ideas, and MoshPit has a new and better way to do that. IoT (Internet of Things). This shaping of vague ideas into resource-worthy innovation projects is the final step of the MoshPit process. Artificial Intelligence. Data Analytics.