S03 - RightNow Technologies HBS 9-805-032 1. Evaluate the startup of RightNow Technologies in light of: (a) Kawasaki‟s “top five things an entrepreneur must accomplish”; and (b) the concepts of the “Lean Startup” as outlined in the articles by Blank (hypothesis testing‚ experimentation‚ customer feedback‚ iterative design and agile development) and Eisenmann et al (managing uncertainty: minimum viable products‚ staging‚ and transferring risk to partners). Looking back from the perspective of
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What’s the price of progress? This price of progress is very expensive. It’s not just measured in only dollar and cents it also can be measured in the amount of lives lost and the amount of resources depleted. There are social advantages of progress they are measured by increased incomes‚ higher standards of living‚ greater security and better health. However‚ these social advantages have a greater negative effect on tribal people. It’s been shown that the price of progress on the unwilling tribal
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American Progress Manifest Destiny was a phrase that expressed the belief that the United States was destined to expand from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean; it has also been used to advocate for or justify other territorial acquisitions. In the painting American Progress by John Gast‚ he manages to depict that America’s rapid expansion had many consequences and benefits. Perhaps the most significant consequence was that it reinforced Americans’ sense of themselves as pioneering people
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The Pilgrim’s Progress By John Bunyan 20 April 2010 Format: MLA Style The Pilgrims Progress‚ composed in 1678 by John Bunyan‚ is said to have originally graced John in a dream. As a Preacher and English writer‚ Bunyan comprised this during the time in which he was imprisoned for preaching the word of God. This makes good sense because of the timing of it all. If there were ever to be a good time for a person to consider their life as it was and eventual death that would one day come‚ it
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A Bridge of “Progress” ---------character analysis of Makola As the only native workers and cultivated nigger in the trading station‚ Makola in “An Outpost of Progress” by Joseph Conrad seems to be a bridge between the natives and the white men. Moreover‚ Makola is not only a bridge as an interpreter for natives and the white men‚ but also as a bridge connects civilized and savage culture as a victim of “progress”. For the two white men from light society to the wide Africa‚ Makola as an
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people who believed in progress‚ they wanted a way to improve and advance their nation. (book 489) Progressives didn’t always agree on everything. They didn’t on the form of their inventions and they created impulses to try to settle everything. One Impulse was the importance of social cohesion: the belief that individuals are part of a great web of social relationships. (book 489) Which from what I understand will be great because being cohesive‚ staying together‚ means progress will be more likely
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Progress Trap In his 2004 book‚ A Short History of Progress‚ award-winning novelist‚ historian‚ and essayist‚ Ronald Wright explores the seemingly inevitable pattern of progress and imminent disaster that so defines the history of civilization. Wright laments upon the “progress trap” (Wright 31) as that of an absolute agent of downfall; one that we‚ as humans‚ bring upon ourselves. What began as simple moral improvements made in small civilizations has‚ with the introduction of science and
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By the 1300’s‚ it was becoming increasingly clear that Roman Catholicism had become corrupt. It took strong‚ brave people to go against the Church. One such person was John Wycliffe who was born in 1324 in Yorkshire‚ England. He lived during the reign of King Edward III and King Richard II of England. In 1376‚ he wrote the Civil Dominion which called for a reformation in the church. He began to attract followers as people were drawn to his cause. He and his followers rejected wealth‚ believing that
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In Pilgrim’s Progress‚ Christian appears as the protagonist of the allegory tormented by spiritual anguish. A spiritual guide named Evangelist visits Christian and urges him to leave the City of Destruction. Christian then decides to travel on a strenuous trip to gain salvation in the Celestial City‚ known as Mount Zion. On his trip‚ Christian meets Worldly Wiseman‚ who urges him to lead a practical‚ happy existence without religion. Refusing‚ Christian is sheltered in Goodwill’s house where Goodwill
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After reading The Myth of Progress I have learned different ways to approach a problem in a more effective way. I think of how things are connected to each other and how systems lie within other systems. Everything is connected and feeds off each other in ways that I would not have originally thought of. One example that was used was how the forest lives off all the organisms within it‚ all their actions can be used for energy for another organism. There is no waste and its goal is to reach an equilibrium
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