Business

🔗 HOW TO: Use Game Mechanics to Power Your Business

HOW TO: Use Game Mechanics to Power Your Business So how can you use game mechanics the right way and supercharge your business? We’ve distilled the process down to four steps.

📜 Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting

Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting Ivan Misner ( Founder of BNI , talking at StartupNation about “VCP”: visibility, credibility, and profitability)

🔗 Cucumber – Making BDD fun

Cucumber – Making BDD fun Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in a business-readable domain-specific language and serves as documentation, automated tests and development-aid – all rolled into one format.

🔗 How to Evaluate a (paid) iPhone App Idea – Tony Wright’s Startup Front-End

How to Evaluate a (paid) iPhone App Idea – Tony Wright’s Startup Front-End So, should you launch a paid app? Maybe. Every entrepreneur is different. If you want to build a big/impactful business, it’s not the right path (…). If what you want is a bootstrapped freedom-from-employment effort or are passionate about an idea that’s a lousy fit for in-app purchases, paid apps are a great path.

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[BJ Fogg’s] Behavior Model shows that three elements must converge at the same moment for a behavior to occur: Motivation , Ability , and Trigger . When a behavior does not occur, at least one of those three elements is missing. (via BJ Fogg’s Behavior Model )

📺 Behaviour Design

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1 BJ Fogg explains “Behaviour Design” ( Source: http://c.brightcove.com/ )

📜 Put hot triggers in the path of motivated people

Put hot triggers in the path of motivated people. BJ Fogg (“the most important 9 words in behaviour design are: …”)

🔗 I Stalked Steve Jobs (And How To Get A Meeting With ANY VIP) – Forbes

I Stalked Steve Jobs (And How To Get A Meeting With ANY VIP) – Forbes I would no longer see barricades. Stumbling blocks would now be seen as stepping stones to something better, or something to crawl over or walk around. Previous limitations would now be a mere triviality, at worst a slight inconvenience. There were insanely great things to create and we were here to create them and that’s all there was to it....

📜 Sales price should be based on value, not on cost

Sales price should be based on value, not on cost. Ricardo Liberato

📜 A vendas fazem-se com pessoas, não com empresas

A vendas fazem-se com pessoas, não com empresas. Ricardo Liberato