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5 Strategies To Thrive In Customer-Driven Disruption

Startup Professionals Musings

As disruption examples , the rise of ride sharing, e-commerce, and social media were clearly driven by changing customer trends, more than technology. I first saw this approach outlined well in the new book, “ Customer-Driven Disruption ,” by Suman Sarkar, former A.T. Kearney consultant and now leader of his own consulting practice.

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GFi Working With Universities, Manufacturers, and Big Pharma

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Qualitative Research & Facilitation: GFi worked with Hiler Industries , a high value cast iron manufacturer based in LaPorte, Indiana. Social Media. This was a complex session design that achieved the goals of forming diverse teams, and improving the quality and quantity of grant proposals. Artificial Intelligence.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools. Social media audiences have effectively become another universe of prospects to tap, which means measurement and tracking is essential to yielding from these visitors both direct and indirect revenue. AddThis Bookmark Button END -->. Add2Any, RETWEET, FB RECOMMEND ENDS-->.

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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

In the mid-90s, late '94, early '95 my buddy and I were trying to figure out the best way to listen to Indiana basketball and we had to have a speakerphone where we had one set up in Bloomington, Indiana, one in Dallas, Texas. We live in a social media universe now and all of them, particularly in the NBA, have very large platforms.

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Want $50k in Seed Funding? Apply now.

ReadWriteStart

Gremln.com , a social media consolidation and analytics tool. One of the applicants that didn't make the initial cut and is re-applying is Intellitek Systems in Fort Wayne, Indiana; operating at break even with five employees selling SMB ERP packaged software. DiningCircle.com , a restaurant reservation service.

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8 Ways to Help Your Tweets Go Viral

Up and Running

It’s the dream of every business to have a social media campaign that goes viral. At Indiana University, Bloomington, researchers compared 120 million actual retweets with a random computer model and found very little difference in the way ideas propagated. So, how can you get your Tweets to go viral too? Randomness.

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