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Why Every Business Needs To Become A Platform, And How To Do It

YoungUpstarts

By Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay. Or Software as a Service for the enterprise, such as Salesforce? Apple manufactures products, owns retail stores and also has an open platform for developers to build and sell apps that makes the products Apple sells even more desirable. Customer intimacy.

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Four Tips For Retaining And Motivating Your Staff

YoungUpstarts

The most traditional of these is takes the form of a top-heavy vertical structure, and provides benefits such as tight levels of control and close monitoring of activity. Creating a motivated work force isn’t simple by any means, but it is essential if you want your employees to develop and stay happy within their job.

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Transcript of Increase Profits Through Specialization

Duct Tape Marketing

John Jantsch: One of the ways to really drive up profit is to specialize, is to go into a vertical market, is to go have a niche, to get known as an expert in X, Y, or Z. Or maybe you got booted from your job, like a lot of people got laid off in, I don’t know, 2006, 2007, 2008. Market vertical would be what you said, dentists.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. The software was idiot proof. There was nothing for the consumer to do.

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SuperMac War Story 5: Strategy versus Relentless Tactical.

Steve Blank

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. I’ll definitely be more careful next time with my words… Reply Maurice Karnaugh , on April 7, 2009 at 6:28 pm Said: A good story and a well executed job.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

Then I graduated and got a job. At a salaried job making $80k plus benefits your time is worth around $55/hour. And thus it is with the majority of open source software: Open source software is free if your time is worth nothing. Back then, time was abundant and money was scarce. But I don’t buy it. Market Hard.