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Kirsten Green • The next revolution in commerce will be driven by the seller
When we started to describe ourselves as “direct-to-consumer sampling,”
April Dunford • Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It
Jamie Catherwood • Shopify, SPACs and Status: My Interview with Jim O'Shaughnessy (Part One)
Netflix is ending its DVD-rental service after 25 years. Here's how the company grew into a Hollywood disruptor with over 230 million subscribers.
Travis Clarkbusinessinsider.comOur biggest competition, Walker explained, was cars and couches; Priceline’s system “collected demand” from people who would not otherwise be flying. And by promising to get back with an answer within one hour—why one hour? Glasses in an hour, photos in an hour; consumers already understand the unit—Walker was deliberately creating in the
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Gibson Biddle, ex-VP Product Management at Netflix, describes the personalisation efforts at Netflix as a decade-long “leap of faith”.
David Mannheim • The Person in Personalisation: The Story Of How Marketing's Most Treasured Possession Became Anything but Personal
EBay had an enormous advantage over the competition that it only then, under challenge, was coming to appreciate: a nicely balanced critical mass of sellers and buyers in each of hundreds of categories. This delicate balance had been achieved through the natural evolution of the eBay ecosystem, without the intervention of any guiding hand. If in
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