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In 15 Years From Now Half of US Universities May Be in Bankruptcy. My Surprise Discussion with @ClayChristensen

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But while universities are developing online content they are not fundamentally disrupting leaning because the method of delivery is not a new business model. In many ways I think general purpose writing & thinking skills are as valuable as math skills. “Online education is truly going to kill us.”

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

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Write things down. I had been competing to win a contract at Thames Water, the largest water company in the UK. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. I was to tell noone until the contract was signed.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

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Write things down. I had been competing to win a contract at Thames Water, the largest water company in the UK. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. I was to tell noone until the contract was signed.

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Improving Sales: The Excuse Departement is Closed

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I’ve started writing up some of those sales & marketing lessons and I plan to continue to build that section out over time. They like a solid product, well defined pricing, good references to sell against, a clear quota and well defined competitors. We have 12 developers and they have 3. Please call our references.

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EnumSet and EnumMap

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If you write a lot of Java code, then you should read that book and follow its advice. If you don't want to use Guava, then wrap the modifiable Enum{Set,Map} instances in Collections.unmodifiableSet(set) or Collections.unmodifiableMap(map) and throw away the direct references to the modifiable collections. forEachRemaining(.).

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Embrace Losing

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I had been competing to win a contract at Thames Water, the largest water company in the UK. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. The initial contract was worth about $500,000 and the whole value of the contract would have been worth a couple of million over the years.

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When Should You Allow Exclusivity in Deals?

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I must admit I discuss this very frequently with portfolio companies but hadn’t thought to write about it. Why Exclusivity Matters to Your Customers or Business Development Partners. So often exclusivity on mega deals is of huge importance to your potential customers or business development partners.