Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2016
After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. 16 years later it’s just another software company. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2016
After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. 16 years later it’s just another software company. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these.
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YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 5, 2013
CRM became more sophisticated, resulting in detailed monthly statements and targeted direct marketing. Engineers initially failed to understand the new possibilities of the new paradigm. In 2000, we launched a loyalty program for a bank in Turkey, Akbank. We are in this in-between stage right now.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 9, 2017
And so I think just because Google is devouring more of these click-throughs it doesn’t mean you’re not going to get visitors from these other channels and especially from your own direct marketing whether that’s direct mail or email or those kinds of things.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
JUNE 19, 2010
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. I discovered blogging because I was told it was great for search engine rankings. I’ve been lucky enough to always make enough money to get by and then some in more recent years, thanks to the internet.
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