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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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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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Design for Startups: The Aesthetics of Web Apps in 6 Questions

www.readwriteweb.com

We chatted with a panel of expert aesthetes in the space, including Spymaster designer Eston Bond , veteran creative director Rich Barrett , designer/developer Warren Benedetto , Mike Rundle of 9rules and Beak fame, and the Paul du Coudray Lowdown , the winner of this years Rails Rumble appearance category.

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