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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. You can find more ideas here: Product Pricing Strategies and Techniques Pricing Experiments You Might Not Know, But Can Learn From Should I Lower My Prices To Compete?

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Hardware as a SaaS business (HaaS?)

Eric Friedman

non-required component to get a 7 day history of content the camera collects. that is definitely now “in the green” because of my 2+ years subscription. Can a locked in monthly SaaS fee cover the business model needs of a new startup to compete with a large hardware co? The simple math is that $9.99 x 24 = $239.76

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How I Found a Great CTO

www.huffingtonpost.com

To sum up, heres what I would do again as a non-technical founder looking for a technical co-founder or CTO. She, like Yishan, balances very high intelligence with emotional strength, and her drive and love for the idea of a design community changing the design world make her a great fit with our culture. ­om migrated off Drupal.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I soon found that yoga taught me 2000-year-old strategies, to be more present with my kids, be more patient with my family and feel more calm and energized at the same time! I desired to use the non-analytical side of my brain to create, inspire, lead, and find a new type of success. Greene, Land Carroll & Blair PC ! #20

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

Furthermore, O’Reilly’s own examples demonstrate the difference between a blitzscalable and non-blitzscalable market. O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

Serifs are used to guide the horizontal “flow” of the eyes; The lack of serifs is said to contribute to a vertical stress in sans serifs, which is supposed to compete with the horizontal flow of reading ( De Lange et al., 2000-2001 , Tullis et al., Arguments in favour of serif typefaces. 1998 , Bernard et al., Bernard, M.,

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Four years from that time, SALESmanago established itself as Europe’s largest and – according to Datanyze, one of the world’s top 6 – marketing automation platforms, competing with such world players as Hubspot, Marketo, Act-on and Oracle Eloqua. I decided to make my product using a green approach. Thanks to Tony Ellison, Shoplet.com