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6 Management Strategies To Maintain Brand Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

Most of us can still remember when Ford expanded into Brazil with the Pinto model, not realizing the translation had a negative sexual connotation, which severely hurt Ford’s brand in many countries for all models. Pay close attention to social media and online feedback, and never respond defensively.

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Instagram And Pinterest New Social Media Stars: Experian

YoungUpstarts

The explosion of online social networking continues worldwide, fueled by a recent slew of new niche social networks that range from the sharing of “filtered” snapshots with Instagram , or the social sharing of images with online pinboard Pinterest. New Zealand. North America.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain the Future Trends They See in Their Industry

Hearpreneur

As big data, social media and flexible manufacturing grow more prevalent, customization will become more prevalent. Personal branding is becoming more popular as people want to express themselves in the workplace and on social media. However, they may value heritage and craftsmanship in a high-end pocketbook.

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

I would categorize these champions in two camps: the “Local Champions” and the “Global Champions”. in Brazil and 0.8 A few facts on Big Data I took advantage of this keynote to highlight a few areas where we see a lot of opportunities globally and in particular for Eastern European start-ups: Big Data, Cloud Computing and Mobile.

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Three economic trends for 2011 (fueled by startup goodness)

crowdSPRING Blog

Three trends which started in 2010 should continue into 2011 and should accelerate as the year goes on: VC funding will continue to accelerate fueled by the global growth in entrepreneurship; job creation will see gains, fueled by startups and small business; initial public offerings will see a comeback.

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Why it’s not easy to break into the Brazilian tech market – a chat with Boo-box’s Marco Gomes

The Next Web

Marco Gomes is the founder of social media advertising company Boo-box , which reaches 60 million people in Brazil monthly with ads from clients like Google, Unilever, Volkswagen and Microsoft. He’ll be speaking at our upcoming TNW Conference Latin America , which takes place on 28 and 29 August in São Paulo, Brazil.

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Service Exports - Driving U.S. Startups and Small Businesses

Growthink Blog

Since the great “financial crisis” of 2008-2009, the firm’s clientele – really without us even trying – has becoming increasingly global. In the last 6 months, we have advised clients and investors, in no particular order, from Kenya, India, Italy, South Africa, Germany, China, Brazil, Mexico, Switzerland, the U.A.E., So from 95%+ U.S.