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	<description>Technology changes everything - Notes on strategy, economics, and innovation in business</description>
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		<title>Are you using social media in your business?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a chart that shows some interesting statistics on business use of social media:
How Are Companies Leveraging Social Media?
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		<link>http://geekfluence.com/are-you-using-social-media-in-your-business</link>
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		<title>Hamel on Apple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two articles from one of the world&#8217;s leading business strategists, Gary Hamel:
Deconstructing Apple — Part I
Deconstructing Apple — Part 2
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		<link>http://geekfluence.com/hamel-on-apple</link>
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		<title>Extending ebooks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From HBR:
Ebooks: Getting Beyond Disruption
This is exactly what the publishers need to be thinking about &#8211; how to create long-term value using eBooks.
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		<link>http://geekfluence.com/extending-ebooks</link>
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		<title>Bundling prices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an article discussing aspects of bundling prices. There are cogent points, but it misses one huge one &#8211; bundled pricing makes it easier to make a sale.
When you are courting a new customer, you have several roadblocks to overcome. They must believe in your product, perceive the value, and have real pain (desire) to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://geekfluence.com/bundling-prices</link>
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		<title>Behavioral Economics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think behavioral economics is the next big boom. With all the new research being done on the brain, I think we&#8217;ll finally start to get over the basic (and faulty) econ assumption that people are rational. Here a way to incorporate behavioral economics into healthcare:
How Behavioral Economics Can Help Cure the Health Care Crisis
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		<link>http://geekfluence.com/behavioral-economics</link>
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		<title>Article on eBooks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the iPad coming, there&#8217;ll be lots of articles on eBooks. Here&#8217;s one from NYT:
Math of Publishing Meets the E-Book
It&#8217;s interesting but wrong. The prices of eBooks will do down to zero. Why? Because the price of a good always moves towards the marginal cost, or the cost to reproduce a product. Since eBooks are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Posts about creative destruction as of March 11, 2010</title>
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the geography of innovation &#8211; timkastelle.org
10/26/2009
Where you are is still important.  Location has a huge impact on the resources available to you, the education of the people that you work with, the money available to try out radical ideas, and the cultural attitudes towards new things.  Check out this from a Time Magazine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://geekfluence.com/posts-about-creative-destruction-as-of-march-11-2010</link>
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		<title>Posts about venture capital  as of March 11, 2010</title>
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Are Angels Getting Better Deal Flow In This Economy? &#8211; creoquality.com
10/29/2009
I had an opportunity to sit in on an investor meeting for an Indianapolis-based angel network. Creo Quality was asked because the services we provide and experience we have might be an asset to this group and its portfolio companies. During the meeting, there were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://geekfluence.com/posts-about-venture-capital-as-of-march-11-2010</link>
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		<title>Posts about innovation as of March 11, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

November 6, 2009 &#8211; New Economy, New Rules &#8211; creoquality.com
10/29/2009
New Economy, New RulesNovember 6, 2009   8:00 a.m. &#8211; 9:30 a.m. Barnes &#038; Thornburg LLPHealthcare IT Innovation 8:00 a.m. EDT Registration and continental breakfast 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. EDT Presentation &#8211; Adjournment will be on timeInformation technology has the potential to transform the U.S. healthcare [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://geekfluence.com/posts-about-innovation-as-of-march-11-2010</link>
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		<title>Posts about creative destruction as of March 7, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

the geography of innovation &#8211; timkastelle.org
10/26/2009
Where you are is still important.  Location has a huge impact on the resources available to you, the education of the people that you work with, the money available to try out radical ideas, and the cultural attitudes towards new things.  Check out this from a Time Magazine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://geekfluence.com/posts-about-creative-destruction-as-of-march-7-2010</link>
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