2000 Direct Marketing Product Technology 
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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Ben's Blog
JUNE 18, 2011
We are not in a technology bubble. We have not even taken a major step towards a technology bubble. So let us first ask if “a very high percentage of the population&# has bought into a distorted premise about the future growth prospects for technology. In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000.
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
Technology Live. Products Home. Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Skip to Main Content.
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.
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 11, 2016
It’s not often that I pull a dusty old marketing book off my bookshelf to talk about a more current marketing topic, but almost 20 years ago I stumbled upon Jay Abraham’s book, Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got , and I think what he shared in 2000 is still relevant today. Do you know?
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