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Navigate Your Path to Success

Women on Business

Often this meant trying to read Mapquest directions while driving on a highway or in the dark.

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurs have historically taken one of two approaches to IT. A second set of entrepreneurs focus on information goods and think of IT as the product. A second set of entrepreneurs focus on information goods and think of IT as the product. Most think of IT as a “necessary evil.”

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

When testing ideas are part of the creative process for product, service, or business development, this triangle must be a business priority: To test product, watch prospects interact with it—whether they use a tool, read a book, choose a necklace, or scan an airline ticket. Design stems from USE. Ideas come from everywhere!

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The Disruption of Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

Organizations such as Y Combinator and TechStars have become magnets for some of the most talented US entrepreneurs by providing expert guidance with limited funds. In classic cases of industry disruption, such as in steel or airlines , incumbent firms have tens of thousands of employees.

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How GE Stays Young

Harvard Business Review

Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets. Organic growth depends on discovering breakthrough ideas, leveraging technology, and getting closer to customers. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster.

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Can You Really Power an Organization with Love?

Harvard Business Review

Some very well-known companies such as Whole Foods (founder John Mackey dedicates a whole chapter to love in his book Conscious Capitalism ) and Southwest Airlines (their NYSE ticker code is LUV) make explicit reference to love. LoveOS supports the “apps” of strategy, finance, etc.