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Twitter Link Roundup #82 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

In France, the decline was – 4% [link]. What You Need to Know About Agile UX – [link]. An Interview With Twitter’s Forgotten Founder, Noah Glass – [link]. YouTube starting to roll out a live service – [link]. US newspaper revenues faced a 30% decline 2007-09.

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Ecommerce Trendwatching: How To Find, Follow, and Set Trends

ReadWriteStart

Kearney , for instance, found out that more than a third of US, France, and Germany weekly buyers have already signed up for subscriptions, whereas 12% are still debating this service. Most startups are driven by high-end technology, innovations, and agile testing, with the help of which new trends are being born.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) Yet decades later the military lacked the agility to write a spec in two years, let alone get 10′s of thousands of new systems deployed on aircraft as Terman had done. How was this possible? Is there anything more to be added to his memoir?

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[Interview] Louis Carter, Author Of ‘In Great Company: How To Spark Peak Performance By Creating An Emotionally Connected Workplace’

YoungUpstarts

Warner Burke, Frances Hesselbein, Sally Helgessen. When you lose your entrepreneurial culture as you grow, you lose your agility. I launched it with ten Fortune 500 C-level executives — pioneers of change management, including Kathleen Dannemiller, Marshall Goldsmith, Richard Beckhard, Warren Bennis, W. Don’t let this happen.

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Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Institutional and individual investors have clearly been shying away from risky assets in favor of those with less risk (actual or perceived)… hence $1800 gold, Swiss franc frenzy, and record low yields on US treasuries and Germand bunds.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 2

Steve Blank

The result was that in May 1940 five panzer divisions crossed through the Ardennes and France fell to the Germans. Todays threats need an agile system that can build incrementally and iteratively, and deliver with speed and urgency. Slides 3-9. After another half a century of refinement in tank warfare and doctrine U.S

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Measuring Market Penetration with Brand Tracking (+ Metrics & Examples)

ConversionXL

Brand momentum can be calculated similarly to physical momentum (mass x velocity): Brand momentum = brand mass (your company’s size, reputation, and relevance) x brand velocity (speed of growth, agility in keeping up with industry changes). Take Tesla. Optimize and repeat.

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