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Facebook and product development

BeyondVC

Facebook has clearly built a huge community and is one of the leading social networks on the web. However, it seems that there is a huge privacy backlash online (according to USA Today already 500k of 9.5mm members are against this) – I guess part of the lure of the Facebook that it was more of a closed network than MySpace.

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The End Of Marketing As We Know It

YoungUpstarts

Instead, buyers are checking out product and service information in their own way, often through the Internet, their social network, or just plain word-of-mouth or customer reviews. It’s a myth that social networks and their technologies are creating new approaches to marketing. Build strong customer communities.

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6 Awesome Tools To Make Your Startup Smarter In 2020

YoungUpstarts

Mighty Networks. In today’s social media-driven world, you need tools that can take your products to the right groups and communities. You need to engage in discussions and create the need of your products in order to tap into the right customer circles. You see how this can benefit, don’t you!

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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

Graphic designers and illustrators are no longer considered a starving artist and computer network technicians are keeping the tech companies running. Betakit.com, a startup news website, reached out to the Montreal tech community with a list that was developed with all the new up and coming tech companies in 2019.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. Extends network dramatically. Numerous VCs.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

Brilliant ad agencies and clever marketing communications experts. Talented product developers. When 3M brought “lead users” into its innovation process, they improved revenues by a factor of eight times over innovations from internal product developers. Highly trained salespeople. Even PhD analytics eggheads.

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Seven Things Your Customers Can Do Better Than You

YoungUpstarts

You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to say good things about your company — in a quest to get even more customers. In return, the customers pay you money.

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