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

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The iPhone integrated phone, camera, music player and internet access all into one device – and it did it well. Lipitor (1997). Japan – technical juggernaut and one of the most powerful economies around the globe – chose a video game hero to represent their culture on the global stage. Super Mario Bros.”

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Why You Should Use Localisation in a Globalised World

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Sushi – a food that has reached its tentacles around the world and is now served in over 20,000 restaurants outside Japan, can be considered a truly successful global product. The advent of the Internet means that geographical and social boundaries no longer inhibit business and we are now living in an era of interconnection.

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

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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. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. It’s a great business.

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Should You Serve Fair Trade Coffee?

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In a global market where the buyers and sellers of coffee are often half a world away from those who grow and maintain the plants themselves, do you know what those worker’s lives are like? What about the farms, are they environmentally friendly, and are they using green and sustainable methods? Thorough internet search.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Pingback: Using Typography to Your Advantage | Pros Global TV. We ended up with Helvetiva, albeit at a slighly larger size than many of our European cousins, in white on dark-green or blue, or black on white. Pingback: Quelle police d’écriture sur internet? Review article. Protextuel.