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Leadership on Demand

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Thursday, July 9, 2009 -- Leadership on Demand a.k.a. In today's economic environment, business leaders must seek every possible competitive advantage and the most powerful advantage is ensuring that the right people are leading the way. Executive as a Service". Business as usual is usually a path to mediocrity. See [link] (more).

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UCSB Tops Harvard & Wharton In Startup Wars

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Unlike most university programs that are over architected and underfunded, the TMP evolved organically, based on the demands of its students and input from the local community. The TMP began in the late 1990''s as a single class inside the Engineering College. This allowed the curriculum to efficiently find its product / market fit.

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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

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Reading it felt like read a university book for an economics class and no wonder since he’s a professor at Harvard Business School. This is important because the customers they serve (the red line) demand a product that meets their complex requirements. It is not a beach novel to be sure.

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

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But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. I wish more startups were rigorous in defining market needs and competitive differentiate versus throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks but it seems as an industry we’re breeding the culture of the latter.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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Was there consumer demand? Would they build a world class team. Meredith Perry came up with the idea for uBeam while still in college at University of Pennsylvania and like many great inventors won her school’s business plan competition. No brainer. And then the most important factor for me – who were these people?

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6 Keys To Enchanting Your Customers With Your Service

Startup Professionals Musings

For new entrepreneurs and startups, I recommend an initial focus on these six steps from the very beginning to set the right culture and save the tremendous cost of a transformation and risky competitive catch-up later: Start with an overriding top-down focus on customer experience. Set the expectation for continuous improvement.

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Why Hulu is the OPEC of Online Video

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OPEC (the organization of petroleum exporting countries) is a cartel that was set up in the 1960′s and represents the interests of the 12 biggest oil producing countries in the world with the goal of increasing prices of oil, a good supplied in limited quantities to a world that had insatiable demand for the product.

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