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What I noticed in 2013

Start Up Blog

I’ve been reviewing my notepad from 2013 and thought I’d share my insights into what’s changed and the big issues from my perspective in startups, business and technology. A terrific piece of evidence for this fact is observing how the technology and business section of the WSJ and New York Times now have a massive overlap.

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5 Ways to Use Tech to Improve Customer Satisfaction

Women Entrepreneurs Can

With so many world-class options available for every product and service, the only way to differentiate in the marketplace now is how you treat your customers. A great example of someone who understood that is Audrey Gelman , who once addressed 400 of her clients at her New York office while being six months pregnant.

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6 Strategies Guaranteed to Boost Revenue for Your Hair Salon

Up and Running

In this article, we’re going to review what’s worked for other businesses, and what the data has to say so that you can take advantage of strategies that you already know will work. New York startup Vive has tapped into this market. If you didn’t already know it, “blowout bars” and hair touch ups are a New Yorker obsession. .”

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What Would Happen if you Built the Reverse of Amazon? It Might Look Something Like This …

Both Sides of the Table

The first is that it could carry limited inventory in stock because it had limited physical shelf space. He spent a few months building out the software because just taking stuff from people isn’t that difficult. After 9 months it was time to raise seed capital and go test drive our new software and processes.

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Rewiring Organizations For A Successful Digital Transformation

Duct Tape Marketing

He is co-leader of the McKinsey Digital Practice, a senior partner based in New York, and a member of McKinsey’s Shareholders Council, the firm’s board of directors. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! It's something we have to invest in, but it's not, uh, competitively differentiating. Like this show?

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

In addition to all the new features, the team had another very large objective. Their code base had diverged and it was extremely slow and costly for Microsoft to be implementing Word separately for each platform: Windows, DOS and Mac. The bad news is that the team created some real problems for themselves. In 1993, Word 6.0

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

So what changed that ushered in the new era that was officially dubbed Web 2.0? Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? might have been a lot less differentiated. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did.