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4 Post-Pandemic Marketing Tips to Help Your Business

Strategy Driven

For some, the key to survival was calling up venture capitalists like Mark Stevens for a quick influx of cash, but not everyone was able to receive funding assistance. Since you can’t always depend on a financing source to help you out when times get tough, you need to boost your marketing plan and develop loyalty among your customers.

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Eliciting Excellence – An Online Leadership and Learning Opportunity

Kevin Eikenberry

Consider it a great personal development opportunity and an economical way to provide leadership training in your organization (or to supplement the leadership development activities you already have in place). And no specific time to log or tune in because you’ll have access to each expert interview for a full 24 hours.

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Artificial Intelligence Is Almost Ready for Business

Harvard Business Review

AI is filling this gap as it becomes ingrained in the analytics technology infrastructure in industries like health care, financial services, and travel. Rather than take the cutting edge capabilities developed in its research labs to market as a series of products, IBM has chosen to offer a platform of services under the Watson brand.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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India's Exploding Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

Recently, I had the privilege of moderating a conference of global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Mumbai — an event called Founders Forum India. As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise. billion e-commerce sector, says Avendus).

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Everything We Know About Platforms We Learned from Medieval France

Harvard Business Review

Venture capitalists are head-over-heels in love with platform markets these days. Most of the so-called unicorns — startups achieving billion-dollar valuations — are platforms: markets that connects buyers, sellers, and others, with the platform standing between them. They’re not. Sponsored by Accenture.

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How Uber and the Sharing Economy Can Win Over Regulators

Harvard Business Review

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. While it is easy to categorize business as in line with the free market and progressives as anti-market, the reality is far more nuanced.