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6 Motivations That Lead To Key Market Transformations

Startup Professionals Musings

As I’ve said before, everyone talks about innovation, but the majority of new business plans I see still reflect linear thinking – one more social network with more features, another smartphone app for marketing, or one more platform for faster e-commerce. Real innovation in the business world is still rare.

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6 Principles To Move Innovation Intentions To Results

Startup Professionals Musings

As I’ve said before, everyone talks about innovation, but the majority of new business plans I see still reflect linear thinking – one more social network with more features, another smartphone app for marketing, or one more platform for faster e-commerce. Real innovation in the business world is still rare.

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How To Focus On Business Ideas That Create History

Startup Professionals Musings

As I’ve said before, everyone talks about innovation, but the majority of new business plans I see still reflect linear thinking – one more social network with more features, another smartphone app for marketing, or one more platform for faster e-commerce. Real innovation in the business world is still rare.

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6 Ways Of Thinking To Put Your Innovation Into Orbit

Startup Professionals Musings

As I’ve said before, everyone talks about innovation, but the majority of new business plans I see still reflect linear thinking – one more social network with more features, another smartphone app for marketing, or one more platform for faster e-commerce. Real innovation in the business world is still rare.

Dilution 132
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6 Entrepreneur Mindsets That Lead To Real Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

As I’ve said before, everyone talks about innovation, but the majority of new business plans I see still reflect linear thinking – one more social network with more features, another smartphone app for marketing, or one more platform for faster e-commerce. Real innovation in the business world is still rare.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

We are the most active Twitter country in the world (measured by tweets per account) and the third most socially networked. We don’t have a ‘Paypal’ mafia, a Netscape brethren or an equivalent strong network in tech. I believe it is our excessive urge to ‘act normal’ and disdain of ‘networking’ that dilutes our social glue.

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How to help your startup turn a profit in 4 simple steps

The Next Web

It’s always better to be earn money, not just raise it, as money you earn doesn’t dilute your ownership and reassures your investors. There were no sales people in the USSR – the government just decided what to produce and in which quantities, – so I pretty much have an anti-­sales­-and­-marketing background.

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