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Digital Pioneers on Paper

Harvard Business Review

Yet several of them — Seth Godin, Eric Ries, and Gary Vaynerchuk — have recently published traditional, paper books. The key: Godin, Ries, and Vaynerchuk are all practicing what they preach. Meanwhile, Eric Ries, is using his new book, The Lean Startup , to experiment with the marketing principles he espouses in its pages.

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Which Social Network Makes Your Customers Buy?

Harvard Business Review

Looking to develop and launch our business, we set our sights on one particular network — StockTwits. We developed a strategy to accomplish three goals across this social network: customer development, brand awareness, and traditional marketing and customer acquisition.

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Become a Company That Questions Everything

Harvard Business Review

To encourage company-wide questioning, The Lean Startup ’s Eric Ries says, “It’s not about slogans or putting up posters on the wall — it’s about the systems and the incentives you create to promote the behavior.” Ries points out that at most companies, “the resources flow to the person with the most confident, best plan.

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The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

Harvard Business Review

These ICOs are nearly always held when a project is at an immature stage of development akin to a seed stage startup — when it is testing hypotheses around its consumer value proposition and forming a founding team. This focused attention from developers has the added benefit of crowdsourcing feedback on the beta version of the project.

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How GE Stays Young

Harvard Business Review

That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster.

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The Rise of UX Leadership

Harvard Business Review

The result: a highly-reactive product development culture in which extra features are continuously bolted on, making the company vulnerable to more pro-active competitors who have a laser-like focus on UX, which can be a potent disruptor in many industries. Design Leadership development Product development' All of it.".

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Five Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012

Harvard Business Review

She wanted me to be a part of a professional development event she was organizing in her city, featuring several speakers and consultants. Can you actually get the participants? She recommended biweekly check-in calls for the next eight months, leading up to the event. Have you organized an event like this before?"

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