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How to Succeed with a Start-up (or New Product)

April 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Marketing

Entre­pre­neurs and new prod­uct cham­pi­ons are always look­ing for the secret to mar­ket suc­cess. A pop­u­lar for­mula is to hire “ser­ial entre­pre­neurs” who’ve been suc­cess­ful before, assum­ing that suc­cess is trans­fer­able from one com­pany to another. This can be risky. As one 8-time entre­pre­neur writes, Since time immemo­r­ial a post mortem of a failed company […]

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& The Essence of Things">People & The Essence of Things

October 18th, 2007 · Comments Off · Back to Basics, Marketing, Tools & Technology

Sev­eral years ago IDC pre­sented a seg­men­ta­tion model for mobile device users that included a clus­ter called “min­i­mal­ists.” Min­i­mal­ists rou­tinely use technology-based prod­ucts for home and work, but want prod­ucts with­out com­plex­ity or unnec­es­sary fea­tures. Min­i­mal­ists want a phone to be a phone — not a cam­era, game con­sole or FM radio. They want a […]

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