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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. 1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. Everything).

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. 1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. Everything).

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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and client. Since I had good connections with the University, we got a lot of feedback on how the product could be improved to meet their needs. We listened to their feedback and started adding features to the product accordingly. The product worked. Not so fast.

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Delivering software as a service

BeyondVC

As you know, I have always been interested in this trend since my first post in October 2003 and since I invested in a number of companies in 1998 and 1999 like LivePerson and Expertcity (GoToMyPC) that subscribed to the ASP business model. While I am not suggesting that every product will evolve this way, it is clear that simplicity rules.

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Is Emotion Necessary To Make More Sales?

ConversionXL

On the other hand, if you sold something like gifts for geeks, the sales cycle would be shorter, and the bulk of your emotion and “personality” could be communicated visually through bold images and nifty font choices. Emotional Design Influences Sales. 1998) – 120,000+ customers. image source.

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