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Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2016
After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused. 16 years later it’s just another software company. What’s Missing?
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2016
After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused. 16 years later it’s just another software company. What’s Missing?
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YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 5, 2013
CRM became more sophisticated, resulting in detailed monthly statements and targeted direct marketing. Or this: “Apple doesn’t do loyalty because they produce outrageously awesome products.” If you own an Apple product, you know what I’m talking about. In 2000, we launched a loyalty program for a bank in Turkey, Akbank.
www.usatoday.com
JULY 16, 2012
Products Home. But the ventures launched in recent years with gobs of venture-capital funding and targeting niche markets have accelerated the movement with user-friendly designs and a tight knit to social networks Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Skip to Main Content. Tech: Blogs. Technology Live. Game Hunters. Science Fair. |.
alexpoole.info
AUGUST 14, 2012
User experience design and research. Case study: Icon design. Give direction → Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces? Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 9, 2017
David: That’s exactly right and I think voice is — it’s certainly informing a lot of the product decisions that Google is making. I think over the years the Google hotel finder has eaten a ton of organic traffic that’s now part of a — sort of a paid inclusion product. ” That sounds terrible.
ConversionXL
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
They’re also two triggers that direct marketers and copywriters have been well aware of for years. Clearly you don’t want to inspire fear in your customers about your product. What works, then, is inspiring fear at the prospect of not having your product. When Fear Drives Conversions.
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