Dealing with Darwin [Review]
Continuing with our Geoffrey Moore business and technology book reviews, Dealing with Darwin looks at how companies deal with innovation and evolution and how they overcome innertia at different stages of the technology life-cycle. It is this evolution that seperates the good companies from the great, as disruptive innovation can literally make or break the [...]
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Inside the Tornado [Review]
Inside the Tornado is the second in Geoffrey A. Moore’s high growth technology business books and is the companion to Crossing the Chasm. Whereas Crossing the Chasm deals with the early market development and adoption problem of new technology innovation, Inside the Tornado deals with what happens once the market tips and the new technology [...]
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The Start-up of You [Review]
The Start-up of You bills itself as a guide to viewing your career like an Entrepreneur views a business start-up. From building a network to seizing breakout opportunities, authors Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha put great emphasis on how the traditional career path has changed in recent years, and how you can actively pursue and [...]
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The Four Steps to the Epiphany [Review]
Steve Blank is a retired serial Entrepreneur who has been there and done it. Unlike many of the self styled business experts who write a book of wisdom, Steve has actually experienced the incredible journey of founding successful startups. It was through this experience that Steve noticed a pattern emerging. During the creation of his [...]
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The Lean Startup [Review]
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries is the new hot method for starting business, developing products and revolutionising large companies that lack the ability to innovate. Based on the scientific study of constant innovating and the principles of Toyota’s lean manufacturing process, Ries aims to give the reader a practical and actionable set of methodologies [...]
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The Innovator’s Dilemma [Review]
The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen is a body of research that explains how disruptive technology can cause some of the biggest and best well run companies to fail. Focusing one three different industries, Christensen gives a broad historical overview of the key changes and evolutions [...]
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The top 10 Tumblr blogs ever
Recently I’ve been seeing some posts with the best Tumblr blogs of 2011. Quite frankly, a lot of them weren’t very good. I think a better list would be to highlight the best Tumblr blogs of all time. For those of you that don’t know, Tumblr is a microblogging platform that allows users to blog [...]
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Crossing the chasm [Review]
Crossing the chasm is a book of material aimed exclusively at “marketing and selling technology products to mainstream customers”, and is written by the extremely influential Geoffrey A. Moore. The book aims to give the reader a detailed overview of approaching the technology markets, and a practical step by step guide for launching a new [...]
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Crush It! Reviewed
‘Crush it! : Why now is the time to cash in on your passion’ is the work of Gary Vaynerchuk who has utilised the power of social media to create an extremely successful personal brand.
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