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

Steve Blank

They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. What’s Missing?

Azure 120
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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. What’s Missing?

Azure 120
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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

Ben's Blog

Secondly, developers are more productive. In 2001, Stewart Butterfield abandoned plans to build a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) after costs became too great; he built photo-sharing service Flickr instead. Thirdly, the market is far bigger. Today, there are over 2.1 What is next? Nearly all of them use Salesforce.com.