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Start a Business at Any Age

Skip Prichard

Make your mistakes among friends and early-adopters. They are your early warning radar. Joan nurtured this avocation through her professional career, and slowly a theme emerged. Hold tight to your mission, values, and goals, but do not cling to your original assumptions about marketing and sales.

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The Rise of the Digital CMO

Harvard Business Review

You can see a strong precedent for this in the open source software movement, which didn''t go mainstream until its early adopters progressed through the ranks. But today''s CMO is different: the corporate attire may be gone, but the assimilation to the new digital culture is incomplete. What do these "digital CMOs" do differently?

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