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HipTraveler | Taking Startup Competitions by Storm

Tech Zulu Event

In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies. Baumgartner points out, “Half of all travel booking is still transacted offline today.

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The Old Ways Of Social Media Marketing Are Broken

Startup Professionals Musings

Isn’t it frustrating to think you understand something new in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? I just finished a new book by Jim Tobin, “ Earn It. By some measurements Twitter was the fastest growing social network of 2012.

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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Anyone who has worked in a large company further knows that timing a product launch or a new marketing strategy has more to do with internal politics than reading market forces. When should you start a company?

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Strategy is Defined by Big Picture | Art of Leadership 2012

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Competition for the future is about what you are doing today,” Vijay Govindarajan preaches passionately from the stage at the front of the Metro Toronto Convention center on June 5th, 2012 at the Art of Leadership Conference. His example has to do with Ford Motor cars expanding into India.

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10 Ways for Startups to Expand Their Reach in 2012

Startup Professionals Musings

The competition never stands still, and new opportunities are evolving, based on culture changes in your customers, new technologies, and new problems in the world which need to be solved. I’ve netted out his and others to create the following basic strategy for entrepreneurial growth: Apply your core competency to related markets.

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‘The Tyranny of the OR’ For Social Media Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are in the realm of the 47% of small businesses who still ignore social media, you need to read the new book by Dave Carroll, “ United Breaks Guitars.” Keep up with the competition. billion in 2012. Ignoring what your competition does is sure to limit your business longevity. billion and that could be $5.2

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UCSB Tops Harvard & Wharton In Startup Wars

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This allowed the curriculum to efficiently find its product / market fit. Brad Feld points out in his widely-read book Startup Communities , that business schools within universities are generally devoid of innovation and thus are not engines of entrepreneurship. Techpreneurs.