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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

Both Sides of the Table

It’s developing a differentiated product in a market where you can demonstrate value to your customers – whether they’re paying or not. Hashtags were organically created by the Twitter community the way that RT (retweets) were and OH (over heard) was and #FF (follow Friday), etc. That includes me.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

Innovation, disruption, accelerators, have all become urgent buzzwords in the Department of Defense and Intelligence community. Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. Solution 2: Use the McKinsey Three Horizons Model to differentiate among the three types.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

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Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. This turns out to be one of the real differentiators for Twitter. So it fostered a community of “try anything you want” developers and many people did just that. How Does Twitter Stack up to the Rest of the Ecosystem? –

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