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

Steve Blank

And is moving the company into augmented reality and conversational AI. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. It’s possible that betting on the phone as the platform for conversational AI may not be the winning hand.

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

Steve Blank

And is moving the company into augmented reality and conversational AI. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. It’s possible that betting on the phone as the platform for conversational AI may not be the winning hand.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

At the end of the day Kayak’s playing a key role in the online travel process, but it appears more of the revenue comes from filling top of the conversion funnel rather than the middle or bottom of it. liquidation preference, 6% accumulated dividend (1). liquidation preference, 6% accumulated dividend. Series B Preferred.

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Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

Heres an excerpt: The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Every startup that achieves success eventually faces a critical moment — whether to speed up or slow down. Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends. Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

Thats when this approach can pay huge dividends. You need to make sure you dont get away from trying bold new things, using some combination of your vision and in-depth customer conversations to come up with the next idea to try. Reports Lets start with the reporting side of the equation. Expo SF (May.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

The stories he told me during our conversation, somber as they are, show the truth of that belief. You can listen to our conversation on Apple podcasts , Google podcasts , or wherever you like to download. Here's my conversation with Carl Liebert. He shared his reflections on why these approaches work. It's member-owned.

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How to Get Your Company to Really Care about Your Customers

ConversionXL

Hayes explained how to persuade the C-suite when data alone isn’t enough: If you can’t win the argument on data alone, I’ve found that modeling an improved conversion rate based on incremental customer experience improvements can get the wheels in motion. agile methodologies, aligning tools stacks). Image source ).