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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

Social, Agile, and Transformation. social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Using the framework Should these principles be a driving framework for self organizing teams, or should there be formal process or governance around it? Business minded, agile CIO with strong social networking background.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009. Closed for You, Open For Us.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009. Closed for You, Open For Us.

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8 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Programming Career

Software By Rob

has been in recession since December of 2007. Work for a “Recession-Proof&# Company Granted, no company is completely recession-proof, but sectors like health care, pharmaceuticals, defense, government, and consumer staples do well in good or bad times. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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10 New Israeli Startups, Hear Them Roar

VC Cafe

Caftor is two things: 1) a platform for connecting the real world with the social network. It allows you to easily create Quick Response codes (QR codes) to represent nouns and verbs in the social network. VisualBee is an exciting plug-in for PowerPoint 2007/2010 for automatic enhancement of presentations.

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You, Me, and a "Naked" CEO

Growthink Blog

And like almost all of the great problems and challenges of the 21st century, the solutions to it will be found not by government nor even by well-meaning non-profits, but by savvy and hard-working entrepreneurs. Quite simply, we are letting down the next generation of Americans. And we can and will do better. Because he has done it before.

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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Ted Livingston’s rollercoaster ride as CEO of hit messaging startup Kik

The Next Web

A fortnight ago, Boris interviewed Reed Hastings on his business lessons and experience, but now I’m shaking it up with a look at a 26-year-old founder who is disrupting the mobile and social networking spaces: Kik CEO and founder Ted Livingston. The Canadian government matched the investment, and the 15-year plan kicked off.