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[Review] Social Marketology

YoungUpstarts

Policies governing employee behaviour, account management, content, security, and legal issues should also be implemented. Do also develop documents for listening, channels, resources, and content. Each platform would require four phases of engagement: identity (profile creation), making connections, creating content, and engagement.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said. Less is more.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost).

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Brazil is using the law to push innovation, but here’s how it can do more

The Next Web

This is a step forward for the Good Law—which has already helped Brazil a lot—but private business and government need to start doing more to truly help launch Brazil’s mobile potential. The government needs to take a holistic approach to invigorating mobile technology in Brazil. What’s good about the “Good Law”.

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Seven New and Unique Business Ideas for Budding Entrepreneurs

The Startup Magazine

A facility management company can be a good start for budding entrepreneurs who want to tackle big companies such as banking and government offices. Suppose you have a knack for digital marketing services such as SEO, SEM, SMO, content marketing, or web development.

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Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II)

crowdSPRING Blog

In fact, 15% of them are outsourcing design and development of their SM campaigns, 11% using outside capacity to create content and 10% are outsourcing their social media analytics. Recently the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed new rules to govern the upcoming changes in equity crowdfunding for startups and small businesses.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

In recognition of these dynamics, many of the early SaaS leaders have started to focus their business development effort on business services channels, i.e., partners that provide technology enabled or managed services to the same customer segment and can enrich their offering by adding a SaaS application. Philippe Botteri.