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Why Every Business Needs To Become A Platform, And How To Do It

YoungUpstarts

Its cloud platform lets sales and marketing teams connect and share information about customers and prospects, and developers have enriched the value of the platform with a host of applications that integrate to the platform and add to its functionality. Salesforce does the same thing in the B2B world. That starts with platform thinking.

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Startup Founders Should Focus on Managing Expectations Before Managing KPIs

YoungUpstarts

The start of a new quarter prompts common questions from start-up founder’s and executives across Asia: What are our revenues and sales targets? We advise founders to get back to the basics, and focus on the following four functions: Sales, Marketing, Management, and Finance. How do we achieve our intended goals?

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being an Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Cassandra Shuck, Tola Marketing & Creative ! #2- It allows them to control their short-term and long-term goals, which makes them crystal clear about their demands with the people they are dealing with. Photo Credit: Asia Dore. Thanks to Asia Dore, Asia Dore LLC ! #20- 2- Being able to help others.

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CEO Shaking Up the AI Industry With a Robotic Reading Companion for Kids

Hearpreneur

After graduation, I worked at Microsoft Research Asia and Baidu Institute of Deep Learning (IDL), both of which are well-known research institutions in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). AI consumer productization places higher demands on human-computer interaction, which can also empower artificial intelligence products.

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What the West needs to know about Russia’s tech scene

The Next Web

With a little knowledge of some of the key cultural differences and unique properties of the local tech scene, Russia can easily become one of the most attractive tech markets in the world for investors. Russia currently has the largest online market in Europe. Russia in numbers. There is no secret Russian handshake that lands a deal.

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Go Anywhere, Get Anything

Reid Hoffman

The way that Travis had set up Uber was a kind of vertical stack, very loosely coupled efforts, and any GM was essentially the CEO of their own city. Marketing, for example, customer, product organization, et cetera. It was the first pitch I’d ever had from a marketing team that was this genius campaign around not using Uber.

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The truth about FMCG in Australia

Start Up Blog

In fact, these challenges are taking away most packaged goods marketers ability to determine their own marketing mix. We can no longer buy an audience on demand. What brand marketers must do is be part of important conversations with their audience. Sure, Australia is a tiny market on a global scale.