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Gen Z Making money: From Social Media Influencers to Gig Economy

VC Cafe

So much so, that the internet is already filled with articles such as “ 5 money lessons millennials can learn from Gen Z ”, explaining how those who were born after 1995 are improving the ways in which they make a profit. From birth, Gen Z has had a unique relationship with a powerful force: modern technology. Show me the money.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

17, on “How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology”. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas.

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8 Ways The Stakes Are Higher On Customer Expectations

Startup Professionals Musings

With the advent of the Internet, social media, and instant communication via texting, customer expectations for service, as part of their entire customer experience, have changed. With every business being global in scope and always-on, a phone-in service available in a local time zone during work hours only, is not competitive.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

Technology cycles have become a treadmill, and for startups to survive they need to be on a continuous innovation cycle. Technology Cycles Measured in Years. But in the 20th century, dominated by hardware and software, technology swings inside an existing market happened slowly — taking years, not months.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

It drives media attention and fosters customer retention rate, which is why most companies strive to have it in their mission statement. They are free-thinkers and I admire how they viewed the potential in technology and made it happen. I admire Microsoft for its exceptional contribution to technology and innovation. 19- Hy-Vee.

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Driven to Distraction – the future of car safety

Steve Blank

In the beginning of any technology revolution the technology gets ahead of the institutions designed to measure and regulate safety and standards. Comfort features evolved as well: climate control – first heat, later air-conditioning; and entertainment – AM radio, FM radio, 8-track tape, CD’s, and today streaming media.

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Are India’s IT managers holding back the country’s startup growth?

The Next Web

Narayana Murthy pulled a Michael Dell when he called time on his two-year-long retired life and retook charge at Infosys, the Indian information technology (IT) giant he had founded three decades ago in a small apartment with six others. Infosys would now be a technology solutions provider. In June this year, N.R. The reason?

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