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

Steve Blank

The launch of the Xbox and Kinect, and the acquisitions of Skype and Yammer happened on his shift. And is moving the company into augmented reality and conversational AI. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. It’s not that Apple doesn’t have exciting things in conversational AI going on in their labs.

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

Steve Blank

The launch of the Xbox and Kinect, and the acquisitions of Skype and Yammer happened on his shift. And is moving the company into augmented reality and conversational AI. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. It’s not that Apple doesn’t have exciting things in conversational AI going on in their labs.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

Value brands can also effectively reach out to pained-but-patient consumers who previously bought higher-end brands, a strategy Wal-Mart aggressively used with its ‘everyday low prices’ policy in the 2001 recession.” You’re no longer in a growth and acquisition position, so KPIs based on revenue targets, etc., Survey design.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

the business was the same and through acquisitions it became to be worth $1.33 If it wasn’t for a fierce conversation that I had with Arthur Patterson, the co-founder of Accel Partners, Coremetrics would have gone out of business in early 2001. No matter the name?—?the billion as the juggernaut it is today.

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Joel on Software is Shutting Down. Long Live the King.

Software By Rob

The memories I have of Joel on Software , especially from 2001-2004, run deep. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. Surely you’ve heard the news by now. Joel Spolsky is going to wrap-up his blog on its 10-year anniversary, just a few days from now.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

Both Sides of the Table

The huge importance of this is that when you have a high-level of loyal customers you get repeat purchases that are significantly more profitable because you’re not spending new acquisition dollars acquiring them. companies that have to spend too heavily on customer acquisition). Get Physical!

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Do You Love Your Job?

Feld Thoughts

I’ve had this come up in a number of conversations in the past few years with other entrepreneurs, especially ones who have either gone through a transition in their company or are burned out and exhausted from the intensity of their work.

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