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Pursuing Entrepreneurial Companies: Grad Advice | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

Pursuing Entrepreneurial Companies: Grad Advice. Social media, telecommunications, high tech are today’s rising stars. Check their market cap and reputation for innovation. Less than two years and I was in marketing. link] #branding #marketing #advertising #design Follow Me on Twitter. In the CEO Afterlife.

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StrategyDriven Enterprises Partners with Xen Wireless to Form StrategyDriven Analytics, a Utility Industry Asset Management Blind Benchmarking Service

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven provides executives and managers with the planning and execution advice, tools, and practices needed to create greater organizational alignment and accountability for the achievement of superior results. StrategyDriven refers to the family of organizations comprising StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Can African Tech Startups Succeed in a World Dominated by Facebook and Google?

Harvard Business Review

Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments. That is the paralysis we are seeing in telecommunications, in e-commerce, and across the broad ICT sector. Taking the advice above could help these startups gain a competitive edge over global companies.

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So You Want to Join a Board

Harvard Business Review

Assess yourself not only as a sector expert but also as an executive with special competences and map those attributes against the market’s needs. What are your special skills — digital marketing know-how you learned in fast-moving consumer goods? Ask their advice on how to improve your profile. Make it easy for them.

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Looking to Join the Lean Start-up Movement?

Harvard Business Review

There is a growing sense that so-called lean start-up techniques — developing a minimal viable product, learning in the marketplace, and pivoting based on market feedback — can help to unleash this potential. Studying the book market then led Bezos to locate his company near some of the major book distributors.

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Corporations Need a Better Approach to Public Policy

Harvard Business Review

Myriad potential public policy-related risks and opportunities for companies arise across a broad spectrum of political and economic systems — from the state capitalism of former Communist states to the “ mixed economies ” in traditional “liberal” democracies, from developed to developing markets.