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Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.

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The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . Complex products and decisions—rife in the B2B world—encourage us to default to our heuristic judgment. Dean Kamen’s code name for the project was “Ginger.” That was all most people knew.

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Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.

ConversionXL

The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . Complex products and decisions—rife in the B2B world—encourage us to default to our heuristic judgment. Dean Kamen’s code name for the project was “Ginger.” That was all most people knew.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

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Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities.