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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

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But, increasingly, the Apple hype-fests are a marketing—not a product—showcase. For product launches, long-term success relies on cornerstones of marketing research and execution, like a strong value proposition and full-funnel campaign. Yet while product launches are a risk, they’re not as risky as you think. Image source ).

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Italist is the essence of what we do: bringing online the experience of shopping from the streets of Italy. When I first incorporated my company back in 2009, the lawyers I had contracted with to trademark the company name and logo desperately tried to convince me to change the name. Thanks to Phil Risher, Phlash Consulting ! #18-

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). We have great intellectual property protection, and have efficient ways to enforce contracts. Think Philips Electronics, NXP, ASML and Tom Tom.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. So, and then the second thing is like, occasionally, a lot of people would assume I'm a technical, like CTO of a company. I've heard that story from a lot of folks.