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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

Warren Buffet, 1997. Paypal famously offered customers $5 to invite a friend, who would then also get $5 as part of a highly successful viral marketing campaign (they actually started at $20, and then reduced it to $10 and then ended at $5). Investment banks simply do not match supply and demand.

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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

The landing page for Bonds viral, social game, Spymaster. You just have to understand what theyre trying to accomplish and then match your design with those goals. To design like a teenager in 1997 using MS publisher is incredibly painful. Aesthetics play a major part in that decision." Ive yet to meet many who can pull it off.

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