Obama's Seven Lessons for Radical Innovators - Umair Haque (136)
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It's a momentous day for America - and the world. Barack Obama is poised to take the reins of the Presidency. So how did this unlikeliest of candidates do it? How did Obama utilize radically asymmetrical competition to shatter Washington's toxic, bitter 20th century status quo? The most critical part of the story is the organization Obama built. Though conservatives are still arguing that Obama has little executive experience, nothing could be further from the ...
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JMaultasch said:
Best post I've read yet on the lessons to be drawn from Obama's win.
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Chuck F said:
Interesting analysis of what was different about Obama's campaign through a Harvard Business lens.
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Igniter said:
Umair Haque at his best...
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Choosenick said:
I thought I'd hate this. But he's right you know.
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Alex said:
"What do marketers traditionally do? Segment and target, slice and dice. We've become great at dividing markets into tinier and tinier bits. But we're terrible at unifying them." - hoping they can learn to get better.
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Jake said:
"Yesterday, we built huge corporations to do tiny, incremental things - tomorrow, we must build small organizations that can do tremendously massive things."
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Josh said:
The spherical design is one of my favorite aspects of G.
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MattJhsn said:
true?
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Marcos Polanco said:
Now we are talking about the astonishing aspect of Obama's meteoric rise...the organizational design that powered our victory, not his, but OUR, which is part of what he has made us come to believe. The world would be a better place if more of us could replicate this in our communities. Wow.
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Cassondra Schindler said:
for paul
Sujay Mahajan shared as favorite Great Presentation From Saul Klein (17)
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Thoughts on European Start UpsView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: startups vc) Thanks to Andy at Betaworks for showcasing it on their blog.
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lkratz said:
pas mal
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Tyler said:
definitely a euro-centric view, which is appropriate considering the audience...regardless, an extraordinarily interesting set of slides.
Facebook’s virtual gifts may make more than $40 million this year (3)
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Late last year, there was a rumor going around that Facebook expected to make up to $40 million from its virtual gifts feature in 2008. I never got that number confirmed. But in January, Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed Venture Partners analyzed the company’s gift sales and concluded that they would yield $15 million this year. Today, he’s revising that revenue number to be between $28 million and $43 million. Facebook has seen a great increase ...
