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Twitter Link Roundup #171 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Marketing and Selling to Squirrels (tips on how to deal with people’s short attention spans online) – [link]. Should You Invest $1 Into Customer Service Or Marketing?

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What Every Bitcoin Investor Should Learn From a Dictator Named “Awesome”

Austin Startup

Awesome was bankrupt, his markets frozen from the lack of a credible medium of exchange. Bitcoin has value only from the drug dealers, money launderers, illegitimate governments, and black market moguls who see Bitcoin as a valuable exchange to conceal their dirty doings. Yeah, that ended badly. Goodbye limited supply!

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The Fascinating Aura of Mystery, Awe, and Power Surrounding A Business

Growthink Blog

I would combine this definition with one of my favorite lessons from my long ago MBA marketing class – namely that in a modern marketplace there is zero difference between " actual " and " perceived " value. And from this perception flow many wonderful things: brand equity, pricing power, and marketing effectiveness being chief among them.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

North Korea. Rapidly iterate technology to produce solutions while searching for product-market fit. (During the Cold War we used asymmetric technologies in silicon and software to disrupt the Soviet Union’s lead in conventional weapons.) Yet in the last decade the U.S. DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea.

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Jennifer Lopez and the NDA

Growthink Blog

I would combine this definition with one of my favorite lessons from my long ago MBA marketing class – namely that in a modern marketplace there is zero difference between " actual " and " perceived " value. And from this perception flow many wonderful things: brand equity, pricing power, and marketing effectiveness being chief among them.

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Foursquare? A Bakery?

Growthink Blog

The teapot dictators in Iran and North Korea may get all the ink, but it is the Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian technocrats with their quiet defense of free markets and trade that make hay. Who Needs the Stock Market? And oh yeah, nobody has made a dime in those public markets than the above parties in eleven long years.

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Your No Fear Career

YoungUpstarts

Running on a hamster wheel, we try to find our place in the fastest changing market the world has ever known. I’m not talking about jumping out of airplanes or crossing the border into North Korea. Today I work with media companies on their brand stories, marketing campaigns and sales strategies.