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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.

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7 Strategies For Anticipating Future Customer Trends

Startup Professionals Musings

With today’s Internet instant access to all the latest reports and white papers of industry experts, there is no excuse for not staying current with outside perspectives, to temper your own views. Regularly follow reviews and influencers in your industry.

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Digital Advertising Is Broken: Three Alternatives For Businesses Looking To Monetize Their Website

YoungUpstarts

I’m equal parts baffled and agitated when I see someone complaining about how adblock is killing the Internet. First and foremost is the fact that Internet ads haven’t been relevant for a very, very long time. The Harvard Business Review does an excellent job of this. Websites, they claim, need advertising revenue to survive.

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Cracking The Code: Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud.

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Software as a Service (SaaS), the most mature of these segments, is comprised of end user applications like Salesforce.com. Forget everything you learned about software channels.

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Why Video Marketing is Underrated (and How to Use it to Your Advantage)

Duct Tape Marketing

Video topped white papers and case studies (84%) and even live demos with company representatives (just less than 80%). With the proliferation of mobile devices as our primary means of Internet access , and bandwidth and speeds increasing with fiber-optic Internet , it’s prime time for video. Crunch the numbers.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

I mean, our people invented so much and accomplished so much throughout American history from post-slavery to modern times but somehow, we black people cannot write lines of code, really? of all software utility patents to inert status. Code is Law Garbage. Trustless is Not a Human Nature.

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The Impact of Community

Duct Tape Marketing

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And the way that effort was coordinated, because there were no cell phones, there was no internet at the time, you'd go down the building with concern faces and somebody would say, Hey, I'll organize security. Put your hands and say, I have a problem, or I have an aspiration. (04:01):