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[Review] Social Marketology

YoungUpstarts

In Dragon’s analysis of social media platforms, nine significant patterns can be discerned: identity, relationships, conversations, groups, gaming, presence, curation, reputation and gifting. Policies governing employee behaviour, account management, content, security, and legal issues should also be implemented.

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Nine Webcasts to Learn From

Startup Lessons Learned

Which is what to me is deeply frustrating--thanks to the president''s creation of the CIO and the CTO, he has really great people from Silicon Valley, from our communities, that could have been instrumental in creating this website, but those people were bypassed because of the IT procurement process in the federal government, which is a nightmare.”

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8 Steps to Starting Your Own Business

Up and Running

This article is part of our “ Business Startup Guide ”—a curated list of our articles that will get you up and running in no time! If you don’t have time to perform the research or would like a second opinion, there are people you can go to for help, like government departments and your local SBDC. Milestones and Metrics.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. Here are our thoughts about how to confront the Red Queen trap and adapt a government agency to infuse continuous innovation in its culture and practices. These Horizons also apply to government agencies and other large organizations.

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Adding Digital Accessibility and Purposeful Inclusion into Austin’s Smart Cities Strategic Roadmap

Austin Startup

Austin City government must play a much more informed, strategic, and foundational role in the conceptualization, development and equitable implementation of Austin’s Smart City infrastructure to ensure that Austin transforms into an accessible and purposefully inclusive Smart City. O’Conner give me a call!

Austin 54
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What Is a Business Plan?

Up and Running

This article is part of our “ Business Planning Guide “ —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! They use a plan to reinforce strategy, establish metrics , manage responsibilities and goals, track results, and manage and plan resources including critical cash flow.

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Removing the Roadblocks to Corporate Innovation – When Theory Meets Practice

Steve Blank

His innovators and stakeholders curated and prioritized their problems/idea/technology before handing them off. We agreed that the goal was not to change any of the existing execution processes, procedures, incentives, metrics but rather to work with all the organizations to write new ones for innovation projects.

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