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5 Quick and Easy Icebreaker Games You Can Do with 1 Piece of Webbing

Lead by Adventure

You can find tubular webbing online, or at local outdoor stores, such as REI. The goal of this activity is for each person in the group to: 1.) If you will be facilitating these icebreaker games for more than one group at a time, then you will need one length of webbing per group. Where ya from/Where ya been?

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Sell Your Product Before It Exists

Harvard Business Review

While most startups who set up pages on Kickstarter, Indiegogo or a host of other crowdfunding sites are looking to hit a specific goal and then get started making their project a reality, a new crop of businesses are using the platform for as a wholly different business model: selling their product before it exists.

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Lean Doesn’t Always Create the Best Products

Harvard Business Review

As a practitioner of a design-led form of product development, and in my own research and writing about an empathetic approach to product design, I’m overtly critical of the Lean manifesto. While many startups fail because of poor execution, I would argue that the majority fail because their product has no market.

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Using Facebook to Capture Customers

Harvard Business Review

A smarter approach is to reward fans by, for instance, providing Facebook-only discounts and sneak peeks at upcoming products. Last year REI drove traffic to its stores by offering $1 donations to charity for every check-in, with a ceiling of $100,000. Similarly, last year Gap asked its Facebook fans to comment on its new logo design.

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More than One Way to Organize a Business

Thin Difference

However, each circle has the authority to self-organize internally to best achieve its goals. Producer: owned by producers of commodities or crafts who have joined forces to process and market their products. Circles are organized hierarchically, and a broader circle assigns each circle a clear purpose. Cooperative Examples.

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The Rise of Virtual Brick-and-Mortars

Harvard Business Review

The quintessential example is the quirky local book store, which sells antiques, unusual knick-knacks, offers free Wi-Fi, and hosts a cafĂ© — an eclectic mix of experiences enriched by products, services, and community that trump online retailing. But this approach has many limitations, chief among them is that it''s hard to scale.

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