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Your customer is not your user
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Customers
Users
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I don't watch TV or movies or play video games.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Video Games
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Trust has shifted from institutions to individuals.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Individual
Institutions
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Data is valuable, so let's be mindful of how we're sharing it.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Data
Valuable
Mindful
Sharing
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There is inherent value in sharing a billion people are doing it.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Billions
Inherent
People
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The whole point of social media is continuity and continual engagement.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Continuity
Engagement
Social Media
Social Media Media Social
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Social media isn't a one-way broadcast; it's a multiway opportunity for dialogue.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Opportunity
Dialogue
Media
One Way
Social
Social Media
Broadcast
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My entire life, I have viewed every problem as an opportunity - I've had no choice.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Choice
Entire
Entire Life
No Choice
Viewed
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Social media provides the modern-day version of mystery shopping and walking the halls.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Halls
Modern Day
Shopping
Version
Provides
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Facebook is a CRM for people. The days of the anonymous web is over. People expect more.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
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Companies can't delegate social media to the new college grad and think they have it covered.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
College
Covered
Grad
Media
Social Media
Companies
Delegate
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If there can be three certain things in life, instead of two, it might be death, taxes, and data.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Data
Certain Things
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Many companies talk about customer success, but how many actually put the customer first above all else, always?
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Customer
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Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Company
Fortune
Pages
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The need for strong partners and employees persists throughout the life of a company, but it is especially important in the beginning.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Partners
Beginning
Employees
In The Beginning
Persists
Throughout
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The immigrant experience had a profound effect on me. It taught me the importance of hard work and the value of being entrepreneurial.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Entrepreneurial
Profound
Work Experience Hard Work
Immigrant
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I am going to take one day a month to visit non-technology companies to learn and get inspiration from other industries and organizations.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Technology
Inspiration
Organization
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With new technologies promising endless conveniences also comes new vulnerabilities in terms of privacy and security. And nobody is immune.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Endless
Immune
Privacy
New Technologies
Promising
Technologies
Vulnerabilities
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Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Massive
Vendors
Come And Go
Cultural
Go Away
Relationships
Specific
Technologies
Transformations
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Social media teams can and do launch clever campaigns, but game-changing Social Business initiatives are typically driven by management teams.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Campaigns
Clever
Driven
Management
Media
Social Media
Initiatives
Launch
Teams
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The most important thing I've done at work has been to surround myself with amazing people who I trust and empower fully to do stuff better than I could.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Trust
Amazing People
Surround
Work Amazing Myself
Empower
Fully
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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As entrepreneurs, we must constantly dream and have the conviction and obsession to transform our dreams into reality - to create a future that never existed before.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Dream
Entrepreneur
Obsession
Our Dreams
Reality
Constantly
Create
Entrepreneurs
Existed
Transform
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Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend Stanford and major in Computer Science.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Science
Computer
School
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'The Facebook Era' articulated a radical vision for how social media would transform media, relationships, and influence, creating new opportunities for businesses in the process.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Articulated
New Opportunities
Transform
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Though decisions regarding work/life balance are important and vary widely from person to person, it may not be wise in the long run to optimize for doing the bare minimum at work.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Wise
Minimum
Vary
Bare
Long Run
Optimize
Regarding
Widely
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Technology may be traditionally perceived as a male-dominated industry, but it won't always be that way. Every day we see more and more powerful women leaders boasting outstanding achievements.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Industry
Outstanding
Powerful
Achievements
Boasting
Leaders
More And More
Perceived
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Great work, professional relationships, and learning experiences compound over time, much the way money does - investing $100 today creates much more value than investing $100 a decade from now.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Great Work
Investing
Time Work Learning
Compound
Creates
Decade
Work Time Money
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Like many of my fellow entrepreneurs, I didn't create Hearsay Social with my co-founder Steve Garrity because it would be fun and easy, but because we're at our best when faced with enormous challenges.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Enormous
Hearsay
Entrepreneurs
Fellow
Steve
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Strong emotional connections between individuals, customers, and salespeople that trust each other will always be 10 times more powerful than the most expensive ad campaign. That's the power social media makes possible.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Trust
Connections
Customers
Expensive
Media
Powerful
Salespeople
Social Media
Strong
Ad
Ad Campaign
Campaign
Possible
Individuals
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I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Application
Needed
Qualified
Business People Who
Background
Developed
Facebook
Specifically
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My father, a math professor in Hong Kong, worked as an electrical engineer here. My mother was an art teacher, but once we came to the United States, she went back to school and became certified as a special-education teacher.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Teacher
Electrical
Hong Kong
Math
Mother
School
States
United
United States
Back To School
Became
Came
Certified
Engineer
Professor
Worked
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Looking back at my first job, even when I was asked to do something seemingly menial, unglamorous, or very difficult, I always went all-in. In my most trying moments with managers I liked the least, I did not give up, complain, or slack off.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Looking Back
Managers
Complain
First Job
Seemingly
Slack
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I was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States with my family when I was 4. I spent most of my childhood in Chicago. My elementary school had no program in English as a second language, so I was placed in a class for students with speech impediments.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Chicago
Childhood
Class
Elementary School
Hong Kong
Program
English
Elementary
Impediment
Placed
Second
Spent
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I believe that rather than it being a case of humans versus machines, the future of financial advice more likely lies somewhere in between, where human advisors leverage artificial intelligence and automation to become smarter and more efficient at doing their jobs.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Artificial
Artificial Intelligence
Automation
Efficient
Machines
Smarter
Versus
Advisor
Leverage
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Rather than wringing our hands about robots taking over the world, smart organizations will embrace strategic automation use cases. Strategic decisions will be based on how the technology will free up time to do the types of tasks that humans are uniquely positioned to perform.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Technology
Automation
Cases
Embrace
Hands
Humans
Robots
Smart
Strategic
Tasks
World
Will
Time World Smart
Decisions
Time Technology World
Free
Based
Perform
How
Organizations
Over
Rather
Taking
Than
Types
Uniquely
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Social networks particularly will tend to converge and consolidate over time, especially because they're inherently governed by network effects. So the bigger ones will just get bigger, their value will multiply exponentially, and the smaller ones will become less and less relevant.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Effects
Relevant
Consolidate
Exponentially
Governed
Inherently
Multiply
Network
Smaller
Social Networks
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In addition to replacing many jobs, automation will also transform other jobs. Professions involving high touch, personal relationships - such as clergy, dentists, and financial advisors, for instance - face the least risk of automation but will nevertheless be profoundly transformed.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Jobs
Automation
Clergy
Financial
Instance
Involving
Nevertheless
Personal Relationships
Risk
Transformed
Addition
Advisor
Touch
Professions
Relationships
Replacing
Transform
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When startups succeed, they do so against all odds. In the beginning, you have nothing except for your own talents and resources. By definition, everyone else is bigger, further along, and more established than you. To win, you have to swim upstream early on - and that requires hard work and long hours. There are no shortcuts.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Bigger
Hard
Hard Work
Hours
Long
Long Hours
Odds
Resources
Shortcuts
Succeed
Swim
Work Hard Work Your
Against
Work Hard Work Long
Everyone
Established
Beginning
Talents
Definition
Early
Else
Everyone Else
Except
Further
In The Beginning
Requires
Startups
Upstream
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My high school, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, showed me that anything is possible and that you're never too young to think big. At 15, I worked as a computer programmer at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab. After graduating, I attended Stanford for a degree in economics and computer science.
Clara Shih / Businesswoman
Science
Academy
Anything Is Possible
Computer
Computer Science
Economics
High School
Illinois
Laboratory
Mathematics
School
Stanford
Think Big
Young
After
Attended
Possible
Degree
High
Graduating
National
Programmer
Worked
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