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5 Most Successful Products Ever and What Small Businesses Can Learn From Them

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So, set your business’s next product design on the path to profitability with the valuable lessons from these 5 positively staggering successful products. The iPhone’s touchscreen was sleeker in design and easier to use than a tradition button-based interface. The iPhone’s industrial design was unprecedented.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

The company was originally founded in 1997 by Jonathan Bush (1st cousin of George W.) Scaling Lessong #3: A mission-driven culture (as opposed to green-driven or fear-driven) endures, particularly when the mission connects to a greater social good. Founding Story: A Pivot. Athenahealth version 1.0 was a complete failure.

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Should You Serve Fair Trade Coffee?

Up and Running

What about the farms, are they environmentally friendly, and are they using green and sustainable methods? Certification began in 1997, as a concrete way to ensure that a fair trade certified (FTC) label on a product meant that a series of milestones had been met, and a socially conscious consumer could rest easy with their purchase.

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

Reid Hoffman

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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Leadership Lessons To Help Guide You To Excellence

Duct Tape Marketing

He’s out with yet another co-authored book with Nancye Green called — Tom Peters’ Compact Guide to Excellence. 7:33] Why was design such a crucial element of this book? [10:16] 10:16] Do you think great design helps you deliver a great message in a lot fewer words? Uh, Nancy Green is no slouch on her own, right?

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

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Where O is total output, X is the given output during a benchmark number of hours, designated by Y , and t is the actual number of hours worked. Green, York University, Toronto, Canada. To express that view as a simple equation, we can write: O = X/Y * t. Psychophysics in Cyberia , Work Less Institute of Technology, November 18, 2004.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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User experience design and research. Case study: Icon design. 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. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Alex Poole. Site français. Skip to content.