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A butterfly flaps its wings and you make a sale

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

It's easy to be taken in by the idea of the Butterfly Effect : That a butterfly gently flapping its wings in the jungles of Madagascar can indirectly cause a Typhoon off the coast of Jakarta. It's relevant for marketing and sales because it's an inside scoop about how to manipulate strangers on the sly. It's worse on the Internet.

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Disrupting Finance From Above: Wealthfront

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If we are in a true competitive market, and one where technology should make things easier and cheaper, why are the offerings becoming more expensive? I can ping Madagascar from my desktop in California in 368ms, but it takes 72 hours for a U.S. Tencent now has 20% of the market. Over the past four to five years, U.S.

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