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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

A worker who is creating 10 widgets/hour at the beginning of a shift may be producing only 6/hour at the end of the shift, having peaked at 12/hour a couple of hours in. It is intuitively obvious that a worker who produces one widget per hour during an eight-hour day can produce somewhere between eight and 16 widgets during a 16-hour day.

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After Your First Big Success, What’s Next?

Feld Thoughts

There are a million things they can do in the world, but the spend most of their time looking for the next great technology company that sells a better widget, but doesn’t necessarily change their life in any meaningful way. I think it’s mostly because they never find passion again, or they look for it in the wrong places.

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Weekend Favs June Twenty Five :: Small Business Marketing Blog.

Duct Tape Marketing

Upgrade features a widget that you can offer to clients to record and send video testimonials to you. Flowplayer – open source flash video player that allows you to customize the player for your embedded video and create a branded player – a step up from simple YouTube embeds for serious video experience.

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Marketing 101: Branding your offering in a competitive environment

crowdSPRING Blog

In 1998, Google was the new kid in an established (if not quite mature) market for Internet search, and by 2004, it was by far the leading Internet search engine, handling almost 85% of the search requests on the web. A great example of this is the rise of Google and the demise of AltaVista, Lycos, Yahoo, and a raft of others.

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How an experienced Asp.net developer multiplied his productivity.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

I won the Imagine Cup back in 2004 and I have trained people to pass their MCSD certifications. Note: I don’t want to sound arrogant in the next paragraph (bloody Frenchman) but it is important to explain the breadth of my experience with.Net for you to understand why my productivity increase is such a big deal to me.

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How an experienced Asp.net developer multiplied his productivity.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

I won the Imagine Cup back in 2004 and I have trained people to pass their MCSD certifications. Note: I don’t want to sound arrogant in the next paragraph (bloody Frenchman) but it is important to explain the breadth of my experience with.Net for you to understand why my productivity increase is such a big deal to me.

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Google and enterprise SAAS

BeyondVC

For more background, I suggest reading a recent Red Herring article and one of my posts from Oct 2004 about goffice and specifically about a Google/Salesforce partnership. What I have always thought, however, is what Charlie Wood mentioned in his blog – that a partnership between Google and Salesforce.com could make sense.

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