Revolutionary Views

A Blog About How Innovative Businesses Can Change the World

FedBid, Inc., the fully-managed online marketplace revolutionizing commerce, announced the appointment of top marketing expert and thought leader, Susan L. Bostrom, to its Board of Directors.
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10/17/2012
Last week, our CEO, Steve Case, joined entrepreneurs in Chicago and Des Moines as part of two key stops on his “Rise of the Rest” trip, visiting promising ecosystems across the country that are nurturing high-potential young companies.
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10/15/2012
Can colleges and universities be more efficient? Sure. Many are already working on sharpening their budget pencils. But can they stop the runaway cost increases by just doing the same old thing more efficiently? No. 
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10/11/2012
  Earlier this week, Business Insider released its Digital 100 list of the world’s most valuable private technology companies...We were pleased to see that among the innovative and fast-growing businesses on the list were three Revolution portfolio...
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10/5/2012
Here is a nice story about how the Detroit Public School system saved dollars and increased efficiency by using a reverse auction platform from FedBid.
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9/25/2012
Remember when you were in college and everyone told you – “enjoy it while you can, these will be the best years of your life.” ... it was such great advice, some startups might learn a thing or two from the wisdom of mom and dad. 
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9/24/2012
  It is hard being a founder of a startup. Most fail.
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9/20/2012
When Google started as a young company, we at AOL did one of the first tech and distribution deals with them... My name was on that first contract between AOL and Google.
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9/17/2012
This week, Chicago schoolteachers walked out in a historic strike, in big part due to a disagreement over working a 90-minute longer school day. While studies have demonstrated that more classroom time and work at the high school level results in...
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9/14/2012
  With the election season kicking into full gear, I’m hitting the road with scheduled stops over the next few months in Detroit, Raleigh, Denver, Chicago, Cleveland, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Dallas, and many more cities.
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9/11/2012
..we were excited to see the Washington Post feature the "Warrior 2 Cyber Warrior" (W2CW) project, the result of a partnership between Echo360 and cybersecurity contractor Lunarline.
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9/10/2012
AddThis named "Most Innovative" by DataWeek. 
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9/5/2012
“Faces In The Mirror” was streamed live last night on SnagFilms.com – as a large group of people also watched in theatre up in Seattle.
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8/31/2012
...just after its 160th birthday, Tribune was bankrupt...What really happened? And what is the lesson for higher-education about technology? 
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8/28/2012
SnagFilms has launched “Snag the Vote 2012,” a hub for over 100 documentaries covering ten key issues in this Presidential election campaign, available free, online, nationwide.
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8/24/2012
Kudos to the team at Resonate Networks for making the Inc 500/5000 List – coming in at #235 overall & #33 in their category! 
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8/23/2012
The fact is, universities and colleges are awash in technology...Shockingly, almost none of it is around the main event of higher education - the learning process.
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8/22/2012
Facebook is becoming an important and fast growing platform for video sharing and viewing.
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8/20/2012

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