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[Review] Customer Sense

YoungUpstarts

While marketers go gaga over social technologies and their impact on digital commerce, it is often our physical perceptions of a product which influence buying decisions. Enter “ Customer Sense: How the 5 Senses Influence Buying Behavior “ by University of Michigan professor Aradhna Krishna.

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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

Just a crazy idea two years ago, the class is now taught at Stanford , Berkeley, Columbia , Caltech, Princeton and for the National Science Foundation at the University of Michigan and Georgia Tech. And in the thirty days since we’ve put the Lean LaunchPad class online at Udacity – 50,000 students have been taking it.

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[US] The 10 Best Sectors That Are Boosting The Economy

YoungUpstarts

Some of the success found in the auto industry today is due to recovery in Japan, where a year after the March 11, 2011 earthquakes, top auto makers have once again reached pre-earthquake levels. Additionally, the IT tech industry in India has paid more than $15 billion in taxes to the U.S. India-based firms. economy and job growth.

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31 Great Ways Universities Are Using Google+

YoungUpstarts

the University of Michigan, administrators are excited about using Google+ for better campus communication, especially collaboration. Georgia Tech College of Sciences regularly shares great news about successes within the university community. Optional review sessions. New campus communication.At Hangout office hours.

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AVIXA’s Heidi A. Voorhees on Thinking Differently

Startup Professionals Musings

EDUCATION Bachelor of arts, majoring in commercial recreation/business, Central Michigan University; master of business administration, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. MY NEXT BIG CAREER GOAL Association CEO, but all in due time. Voorhees, CAE. and Eved). WHAT I DO NOW Run all U.S.

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From apathy to action: Transforming volunteer boards through tech empowerment

Board Effect

Enter technology and board development — the secret weapons for enhancing board engagement. Technology as an enabler Technology is central to board development efforts and an effective tool in creating and sustaining board member engagement. An engaged nonprofit board is like the wind in the sails of your nonprofit.

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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

A version of this article appeared in the Harvard Business Review. But in 1904, after his first time seeing a car in Flint, Michigan, he was one of the first to see that the future was going to be in a radically new form of transportation powered by internal combustion engines. The company closed in 1931. is closing rapidly.

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