crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2018

When planning your next product, the less you leave to chance, the better. And while you can never guarantee a successful product launch, you can vastly improve your odds if you prepare properly. You need to know what a successful product looks like if you want to chart a course to get there. iPhone (2007). Rubik’s Cube (1980).

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products. communicating and working together in a sensible way means you can build your products 24/7. Companies keep buying startups with cool products, good ideas and talent.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Whether you love Apple or hate it, you can’t deny they’ve designed more than a place to sell products with their stores worldwide. Apple has created a store experience that’s as sleek and user-friendly as their products, and, as anyone who has battled through the weekend crowds can tell you, immensely popular. Build-A-Bear.

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BeyondVC

JULY 19, 2005

This means we do not fund a company because of what technology platform it chooses to develop on but rather what problem the company and product is solving and how big that opportunity is. It reminds me of a panel that I spoke on in 1997 at the Red Herring Java Technology Conference.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 7, 2015

Back in 1997, the Nielsen Norman Group conducted the first study to determine how users read on the web. They concluded that a combination of good information architecture, good page layout, and good writing were critical to converting scanners into readers. In their words, “They don’t.” More recently, the same group analyzed 1.5

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Ben's Blog

MAY 30, 2010

This includes matters of personnel, matters of financing, matters of product strategy, matters of goal sizing, matters of marketing. Why should I buy your product? Read Jeff Bezos’ 3-page letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997. Some employees make products, some make sales; the CEO makes decisions. Decision Making.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2015

Steve Jobs loved simplicity and his products reflected that. He attributed this characteristic to the architectural work of his childhood home by Joseph Eichler. In 1997, I chose to suppress a similar finding: users tend to click on banner ads that look like dialog boxes, complete with fake OK and Cancel buttons.

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