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How companies strangle innovation – and how you can get it right

Steve Blank

Approvals tended to be based on who had the best demo and/or slides or lobbied the hardest. Instead of having a committee vet ideas, they needed a process that operated with speed and urgency, and innovators and stakeholders who curated and prioritized their own problems/idea/technology. As the head of the U.S. Lessons Learned.

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

Steve Blank

Great demos are shown and there are lots of coffee cups and posters, but if you look at the deliverables for the mission over a period of years the result is disappointing. Solution 4 : What we have been missing is an innovation pipeline focused on deployment not demos. Part of the problem lies with the innovators themselves.

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CXL Live 2022 Recap: Main Takeaways From 6 World-Class Marketers

ConversionXL

This event focused on relationship building and a lot of work was put into building curated groups to have fruitful round table discussions. More networking and curated roundtables, less gurus and swag. We arranged vetted and curated groups for roundtable discussions , and matched everyone with other like-minded people.

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Developing a Social Media Marketing Strategy that Builds Loyalty and Awareness

ConversionXL

Microsoft Surface curates content by sharing its users’ art and testimonials and responding to their posts. Create and curate content that engages your audience. And then we add a little bit of influencer marketing, we have paid marketing on top of that, and everything is interlinked.” Image source ).

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How To Create Buzz Around Your Startup

David Teten

I particularly urge you to review SpeakerNetNews ; it contains a tremendous amount of curated wisdom from professional speakers: how to be a more powerful speaker, deal with distracting audiences, etc. This is not for TechStars companies or alumni companies, and must be an internet, software, or hi-tech company.

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Twitter Link Roundup #58 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

50 Advanced HTML5 Demos to show It’s Power – [link]. Curating A Conference: Inside @TechCocktail Startup Mixology – [link]. Designing Websites Under Information Technology Restrictions – [link]. 40 Striking Web Design Interfaces For Your Inspiration – [link]. Ask the mice – [link]. – [link].

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How to launch a crowdfunding campaign when time’s not on your side

The Next Web

In January, we finalized plans with Dragon Innovation, and launched on January 17th – Demo Day at Startupbootcamp Amsterdam (where we were graduating from!). a drip email campaign to our curated list of interested/interesting people. 9) Launched! We’ve hit 30% funding in six days and have already sold out two of our top perks!

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