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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Microsoft left the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). 16 years later it’s just another software company. Ballmer went on to run Microsoft for the next 14 years.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Microsoft left the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). 16 years later it’s just another software company. Ballmer went on to run Microsoft for the next 14 years.

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From Loyalty Programs To Fan Clubs, A Paradigm Shift

YoungUpstarts

CRM became more sophisticated, resulting in detailed monthly statements and targeted direct marketing. After a while, people were able to think about automobiles in a new way, which finally paved the way for massive improvements in design and manufacturing. In 2000, we launched a loyalty program for a bank in Turkey, Akbank.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

But the ventures launched in recent years with gobs of venture-capital funding and targeting niche markets have accelerated the movement with user-friendly designs and a tight knit to social networks Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

User experience design and research. Case study: Icon design. Give direction → Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces? Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web.

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Transcript of Tips for Attracting Local Clients

Duct Tape Marketing

This is a tool that we use on the Duct Tape Marketing website thoroughly for content updates, for slide in boxes. Actually we even use the visual editor for all the pages and landing pages that we design so go check it out at ducttapemarketing.com we’ll have a special line in the show notes for today and check it out.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I got out of the university in early 2000 and I never went on to a full-time job, so it’s always been an online business for me. As I said, I have a very small operation and I’m able to make much more than the average person. I changed the design a few times. The money has been really good. I can’t complain. It’s very simple.