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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. They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused. 16 years later it’s just another software company. What’s Missing?

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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. They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused. 16 years later it’s just another software company. What’s Missing?

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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

Ben's Blog

In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. So it looks like the market leaders are trading closer to recession multiples than bubble multiples. Secondly, developers are more productive. Thirdly, the market is far bigger. In 1998, I was working at Netscape, which owned well over half of the browser market.

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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. Or this: “Apple doesn’t do loyalty because they produce outrageously awesome products.” If you own an Apple product, you know what I’m talking about. 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

Products Home. The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. Weve had some awesome people come through," says Kim Gardner, an associate product manager at Flavorpill. Skip to Main Content. Tech: Blogs. Technology Live. Game Hunters. Science Fair. |. Talking Tech. Kim Komando.

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How to Keep Discounts from Killing Your Business [PART 3]

Up and Running

the key principles you should keep in mind when sending newsletters or advertisements are that your direct marketing messages should be: An accurate description of the product or service, legal, decent, truthful, honest, and socially responsible (not encouraging illegal, unsafe, or anti-social behavior). . In the U.S.,

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Is There a Valuation Bubble for Social Media Companies (and if so, is it Bursting)?

Pascal's View

For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked to what went down in 1999 and 2000 in the internet sector. Because over 70% of daily trading activity is driven by rapid turnover funds, public market valuations at any given point in time are even less indicative of fundamental enterprise value than they ever have been. It is intentional.