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5 Stages In Leading Paradigm Shift Levels Of Change

Startup Professionals Musings

A refrain I often hear from technology entrepreneurs to investors is that their product or solution is so innovative that it will cause a “paradigm shift” in the industry. Due to qualms of customers and governments, he sold less than 30,000 of the devices over the next five years.

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Neuromarketing Ethics: How Far Is Too Far?

ConversionXL

Decades later, in 2002, Dutch marketing professor Ale Smidts coined the term “neuromarketing.” In Mexico’s 2015 elections , citizens’ responses to the governing party ads were often recorded without their knowledge. Neuromarketing isn’t the only way to gain tacit influence over consumer behavior (or government policy).

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Damon Becnel Discusses How The Startup Scene Has Changed Over The Past Decade

The Startup Magazine

Traditional business models have changed as globalization takes hold on a global scale, and technology changes our lives day by day. The term “startup” often refers to companies in high-tech industries such as information technology, biotech, social media, robotics, hardware manufacturing, etc. What is a Startup?

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How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

Gust

The move came as a shock to many in the tech business community, in which we’ve become accustomed to real-time disclosure by company executives through social media. Public companies have dealt with financial disclosure in ways that evolved over time with markets and technologies. What could be wrong with more transparency?

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Opting-out of Face Recognition at Airports

Austin Startup

Two years ago, airports in the United States started piloting face recognition technology at departure gates as part of the Exit Visa program. The technology is actually slower than a person looking at a boarding pass and subject to false positives that have to be manually addressed. citizens at all air, sea, and land ports of entry.

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. 2002 – “Consumer electronics is a low margin and highly competitive industry”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. Everything).

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. 2002 – “Consumer electronics is a low margin and highly competitive industry”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. Evernote, Dropbox).

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