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7 Customer Service Trends To Watch And Leverage In 2012

YoungUpstarts

Social networks play an increasingly more important role in the product review process. While companies have been focusing on eco-friendly products for a number of years, a higher percentage of consumers will be looking to shop at businesses that understand the importance of being “green”, and have products and services to match.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

I went to excellent public schools (so-called science magnets) that had computer classes, which meant they had networked computers that I could use. If we network them together, theyll answer each others questions and collaborate on projects we can hardly imagine. May 16, 2009 1:52 PM Todd Green said. But I was also very lucky.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

The biggest lost opportunity of all, though, is this one: we no longer need to rely on scarcity or status-oriented measures to filter which projects should get the green light. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Though technology tools and Web 2.0 ideas (e.g.

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Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Startup Lessons Learned

The EB-5 visa is designed for foreign investors to get a green card if they are willing to bring capital to the US and create at least ten full-time jobs. Recently, hes been engaged in a customer validation exercise around a new concept for a political action-oriented social network.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

This isnt trivial - believing in the projections and selling your passion and networking to find investors are all really hard. I cant keep count of the number of people who I talk to on a daily basis online or in person, at networking events, etc. social network/web analysis/etc. This is utter bullshit. This is utter bullshit."

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Twitter Link Roundup #170 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The chart above shows age distribution within major social networks and online communities. Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes – [link]. Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes – [link]. Crowdsourced Workforces Rising | Xconomy – [link].

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The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

Having so few products means Apple can dedicate enormous resources to each project once it gets the green light. Not everything has to follow lean startup and customer development principles, and I write that as a devoted practitioner of both. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are.