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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

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The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. This is important because the customers they serve (the red line) demand a product that meets their complex requirements. Sony, the iPod.

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8 Questions to Help Decide if You Should be Raising Money Now

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A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “ Time is the Enemy of all Deals.&#. I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic. I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. When I first started blogging Digg was still at its peak. Mea culpa and get right back into line.

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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

TechEmpower

A high-performance application will be able to service a large number of requests simultaneously, staying ahead of the incoming demand so that any short-term queuing of requests remains short-term. Todd Hoff’s comprehensive 2009 blog entry on the costs of latency in web applications is still relevant today. Framework Benchmarks.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. My framework gives me a deeper understanding of the sector. I have a process I use for blog posts, too.

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On Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness

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They often are very good at getting information out of people, helping create a framework for making decisions and pushing for support amongst the organization from those that back the decision and those that do not. She’s protecting them from the most intellectually demanding activities. Leaders are intelligent, for sure.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. But I also believe that the backlash that will happen against ICO fraud will likely burn some people to future participation until and unless there are some frameworks for oversight of the market.

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