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

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So, what better way to learn than to study the products that have cracked the success code? The iPhone also launched with iOS – the software platform that makes all of the magic behind that touchscreen possible. For the first time, installing new software became easily accessible to all iPhone users. Lipitor (1997).

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.

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Banner Ads Suck (and How to Make Them Convert Better)

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This is due to many reasons, mainly: a lack of credibility. plain old ‘ banner blindness ‘ Banner blindness is largely due to the fact that most people read in a F-shaped Pattern online: Image Source. Or desperate measures like Wired’s campaign where they requested that readers turn off their ad-blocking software: Image Source.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

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Ive spent 20 years developing and managing software projects. But, over time, I noticed that the productivity losses that result from working too many extra hours start taking a bigger toll faster than most software managers realize. In terms of knowledge workers, a programmer produces more good code and fewer bugs when well-rested.

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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

A great vacation with my wife wasn’t going to make up for being AWOL from home the rest of the year. What is your advice to someone who has financial strain due to a startup? Some of these problems began with the 19th century Romanticist notion of artists as mad geniuses, in elevated isolation from the rest of us.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. It was so bad that I almost wrote my first Yelp review. Thanks to Roni Eshel, goFlow ! #9) 9) Horrible Experience.