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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

The greatest number of jobs is created when startups create a new market – one where the product or service never existed before or is radically more convenient. These opponents have their own name – “rent seekers” – the landlords of the status-quo. Publicly shame the incumbents as rent seekers. Cut deals with the rent seekers.

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Three Leadership Lessons From “The Boss”

YoungUpstarts

a politician campaigning to run the most powerful country in the world. As with any startup, it took years of hard work and experimentation for Springsteen to become a household name. Born To Run is an account of one such journey, which led Bruce from Colts Neck, New Jersey to becoming “The Boss.”

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

The greatest number of jobs is created when startups create a new market – one where the product or service never existed before or is radically more convenient. These opponents have their own name – “rent seekers” – the landlords of the status-quo. Publicly shame the incumbents as rent seekers. Cut deals with the rent seekers.

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Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad

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One marketing guru named William Crush came up with a killer idea: create a “temporary” city and the stage a train wreck for an audience of paying spectators. The new town, named Crush, was built in short order, just for the purpose of having a place for the crash to happen. Aqua Teen Hunger Fail.

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Master the Family Business Dynamic: Proven Strategies for Growth and Harmony

Duct Tape Marketing

it's, yeah, Oregon and I want to say New Jersey maybe even that it's actually mandatory. You know, the, the, generations, they're, they're not used to somebody coming out and pumping their gas and Oregon, Oregon. John Jantsch (12:01.672) think there's still a couple of states that do that though. powered by

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. I was the division president for the northeast division on 9/11, and all the stores in New York and New Jersey and, obviously, all the east coast stores for Circuit City were mine.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

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Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h. T ool: Curalate URL: Curalate.com What it does: Monitors and measures traffic from “visual-based platforms”—namely (for now, at least) Pinterest. The breakdown: “This is a new vendor for us. Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h.