Patrick Prothe
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Patrick Prothe
“A good strategy is, in the end, a hypothesis about what will work.”
— Michael Porterfrom Getting better at product strategy by Lenny Rachitsky
Embracing a business model that prioritizes long-term customer value over short-term revenue is not easy.
from You Are Your Business Model - by recently noted
- You can tell a lot about a person and how they think about their work based on whether or not they use “content” to describe what they do. A photographer who says that he is creating “content” for his YouTube channel is nothing more than a marketer churning out fodder to fill the proverbial Internet airwaves with marketing noise.
from I have a beef with “content”
We are writers, and we never ask one another where we get our ideas; we know we don’t know.
from On Writing by Stephen King
- To systematically build iconic brands, companies must reinvent their marketing function. They must assemble cultural knowledge, rather than knowledge about individual consumers. They must strategize according to cultural branding principles, rather than apply the abstracted and present-tense mind-share model. And they must hire and train cultural a... See more
from Branding as Cultural Activism by Douglas Holt
- This increase in revenue comes at the cost of long-term customer satisfaction, but nobody knows how to really measure that, so investors don’t care.
from 2020 Startup Themes by Daniel Gross
- Creativity requires connecting the dots, and connecting the dots requires allowing time for my subconscious to consolidate my ideas and make associations. This means that, from time to time, I need to just stare out the window and do nothing.
This doesn’t feel productive, even though it is.from You’re doing better than you think. Here’s why. - Ozan Varol by Ozan Varol
- “Limit everything to the essential but do not remove the poetry.”
— Dieter Rams, quoted in Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Ramsfrom Dieter Rams