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A Guide to Reputation Management: Build an Audience of Superfans

ConversionXL

79% of consumers trust an online review as much as they would a recommendation from a friend. And 94% of shoppers state that just one bad review has convinced them not to buy from a company. You can’t avoid negative reviews, opinions, and comments altogether. Notice that the reviews are about Rand, not about SparkToro.

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The Truth About the Scooter Economy?—?An Insider’s Perspective

Both Sides of the Table

In my home town of Santa Monica they painted 19 miles of bike lanes green to help delineate bikes & scooters from cars and they built 3 miles of soft barriers to test how this works with traffic flow. While the ride-hailing market sees autonomous vehicles as nirvana due to no driver costs, the e-scooter market already has this built in.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous integration step-by-step

Startup Lessons Learned

Integration risk is the term I use to describe the costs of having code sitting on some, but not all, developers machines. It happens whenever youre writing code on your own machine, or you have a team working on a branch. It also happens whenever you have code that is checked-in, but not yet deployed anywhere.

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3 Major Product Fails, And How To Avoid Their Mistakes

YoungUpstarts

Green ketchup, bottled water for pets, airport security “action figures”, yogurt shampoo – there have been some pretty epic product failures over the years. Turns out people want their laptops to do basic things like run games, Photoshop, or work software. By Malcolm Stewart, CEO of YouEye. Samsung Galaxy Gear.

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Twitter Link Roundup #170 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

How You Can Benefit from All Your Stress | Heidi Grant Halvorson – Harvard Business Review – [link]. Culture Code: Creating A Company YOU Love | by Dharmesh Shah – [link]. How You Can Benefit from All Your Stress | Heidi Grant Halvorson – Harvard Business Review – [link]. – [link].

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? I dont think so.

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Twitter Link Roundup #224 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Re/code – crowdspring.co/1hYEli4. New Alphabet Illustrates 26 Of The Greatest Scientific Innovations [Pics] | PSFK – crowdspring.co/1vqNSaZ. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 10 Code Playgrounds for Developers – crowdspring.co/1jB2aSC.