Abhilash Rao
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Abhilash Rao
We can examine competition from both an industry and a market point of view.7 An industry is a group of firms offering a product or class of products that are close substitutes for one another. ... Using the market approach, we define competitors as companies that satisfy the same customer need. For example, a customer who buys a word-processing
... See moreKevin Lane Keller • Marketing Management, 15/E With Indian Case Study
There are several things IFTTT did poorly when compared to Zapier:
First, they did not target any particular audience. When you try to be all things to everyone, you end up being nothing to anyone.
Second, they did not follow the simple principle of show, don’t tell. Even in the simple image above, you can tell Zapier helps apps talk to one another.... See more
First, they did not target any particular audience. When you try to be all things to everyone, you end up being nothing to anyone.
Second, they did not follow the simple principle of show, don’t tell. Even in the simple image above, you can tell Zapier helps apps talk to one another.... See more
Product marketing and storytelling
Duolingo’s $6-Billion Growth Marketing Case Study: Guilt, Memes, & Engagement Strategy
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Benjamin Barber, an eminent political theorist, once said, “I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures. . . . I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners.”
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
Look at Google. Its heartbeat is erratic, unpredictable. It works for them—mostly, sometimes—but it could work so much better. Google arguably only has one big external heartbeat each year at Google I/O—and most teams don’t bother aligning with it. They typically launch whatever they want whenever they want throughout the year, sometimes with real
... See moreTony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making - The New York Times bestseller
habits, as much as memory and reason, are at the root of how we behave. We might not remember the experiences that create our habits, but once they are lodged within our brains they influence how we act—often without our realization.
Charles Duhigg • The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change
Musk says, “Possibly the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.” Other
Often a good positioning will have several PODs and POPs. Of those, often two or three really define the competitive battlefield and should be analyzed and developed carefully. A good positioning should also follow the “90–10” rule and be highly applicable to 90 percent (or at least 80 percent) of the products in the brand.