He's the insider-outsider who represents the synthesis of the much admired elegant skill-based Spanish soccer culture and the hardscrabble, passionate English lower-league ethos.

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One way to resolve the outsider-insider dilemma is to look for an outsider with inside knowledge of the business.

ECONOMIST: Company bosses

Sure, there continued to be some mystifying close-mindedness one wonders if a certain ESPN NBA Insider will soon become an NBA outsider but Collins's announcement didn't provoke the type of meltdown it had long and ludicrously been predicted to provoke.

WSJ: Jason Collins's Slam Dunk

The innovation I am seeing both as an insider and an outsider suggests we are nowhere near maturity in reinventing how sellers find buyers and vice-versa through digital channels and whatever awaits us beyond mobile, social, and local electronic communities.

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