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These Five Principles Will Accelerate Innovation

Steve Blank

To help a large Defense organization wrestle with how to increase the velocity of innovation in their ranks Steve Blank and I spent the better part of last week with our heads together reviewing everything we learned in the five years since we merged the concepts of problem curation and Lean while launching the innovation pipeline.

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How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Your Business

YoungUpstarts

For some time now computers have allowed us to perform breathtakingly complex mathematical operations in just fractions of a second. Although many business owners currently hire virtual assistants to curate content for a business’s social media profiles, it is likely that this is also something an AI bot will be able to do in the future.

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

Steve Blank

It seemed to make sense to have have all the parties represented at the committee, so lots of people attended – program managers who controlled the budget, the developers responsible for maintaining and enhancing the current product and building new ones, and representatives from the operating divisions who needed and would use these products.

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

Steve Blank

Some are strategic peers, some are near peers in specific areas, some are threats as non-state disrupters operating with no rules. Most of the executors and operators have seen little or no value from any of these activities. These can come from hackathons, research groups, needs from operators in the field, etc.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

You can ask them to come and watch your videos at your owned & operated websites (O&O) where you can make higher margins as well as ask directly for more meaningful customer information such as Facebook connections, Twitter oAuths, email addresses and the like. This helps get CPM rates higher – even within YouTube.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Dan McKinley and Wil Stuckey from the Etsy Curation team here. The Curation Team. While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. Well, half of it.

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The Great Retail Reinvention: How the Internet Is Reshaping the Way We Buy Clothing

View from Seed

It will also be interesting to see if the “job” done by department stores (curation and traffic acquisition) might be fulfilled by something different in the new retail reality, as smaller brands or independent designers look to find ways to reach consumers digitally and physically. Potential Challenges.

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