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How to Be Ready for What’s Next

Duct Tape Marketing

He served as Chairman and CEO of Cree for 16 years where his team successfully led the LED lighting revolution not just by creating new products, but by focusing on solving old problems in completely new ways. What you’ll learn if you give a listen: How products that solve problems are marketing and sales success stories.

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Using Video at Every Stage of The Customer Journey

Duct Tape Marketing

Ben is a co-founder and executive producer of Storyboard Media, a B2B marketing, and video production firm in North Carolina. What are some of the best pieces of advice for a new product or campaign that you’re trying to run, and how do you amplify those videos? Can you expand on what you mean by this?

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Is Loneliness a Side Effect of Working Remotely?

Transformify

We encourage remote working because we’ve found that a change of scene gives our staff a productivity boost. At first, our management team was wary about permitting remote work, since we had fears about being able to maintain productivity and about colleagues missing meetings. –5 p.m. –5 p.m.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

We were on the University of North Carolina campus to meet with Fred Brooks and Henry Fuchs. Never mind The first idea for our new company was a software product that looked something like Hypertext. I had last been in Chapel Hill on a winter’s day in 1986, traveling with the VP of Sales of our new supercomputer startup, Ardent.

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Stop Fighting What You Don’t Love And Outsource The Nonessential

YoungUpstarts

We outsource our order production to several different companies throughout the U.S. If there’s a snowstorm in North Carolina that knocks out FedEx or UPS deliveries for several days (which actually happened last month), I can just transfer orders to our production facility in Los Angeles. Production. Transactions.

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Startup Opportunity: Volvo iLabX Accelerator – Capital and Mentors

The Startup Magazine

The 10-week program will enable startups to trial their products at scale, network with industry experts, receive mentoring from the VFS leadership team and access funding from VFS and L Marks. The program takes place at the VFS headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina USA, but any company from any region or country can, and should, apply.

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Bad Boys and the Fab Five: Business Lessons from Basketball History

Up and Running

If your product or service is leading the market, that’s a great feeling, but it’s important to remember that the “game” isn’t over. . It also presents an opportunity to differentiate your product or service in a competitive market. It was over just like that,” Thomas says, snapping his fingers.