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Infographic: explore Shutterstock’s 2015 creative trends

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by on January 30, 2015 at 11:43 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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Sarah Maloy is Shutterstock’s content marketing manager. She’s also an entertainment writer, social media nerd and chronic binge-watcher. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been reprinted with permission.   With more than 47 million images in the Shutterstock collection, we’re able to predict the creative industry’s top trends by looking at what our customers are searching for. And with this year’s annual global-trends infographic, we take things a step further — presenting our data for the first time as an exclusive interactive report exploring creative trends in images, video and music around the world. Scroll through the…

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Google Ventures introduces a site and book to help make your startup’s product better in 5 days

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by on January 30, 2015 at 10:47 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

Are you putting together a startup based on a weird idea you had while drinking with friends? Well if you are, you should check out Google Venture’s site about a five-day process for answering “critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers.” Called the Design Sprint, the site and upcoming book are meant to help new companies really focus on what it is they’re building. The process was used by startups like Next, Blue Bottle Coffee and Foundation Medicine so you know it works. Well at least it worked for those companies. Regardless, it looks like a…

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