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recent bookmarks from asterisk2aEuphemism of the day: Airbnb admits they ‘hacked customer happiness in the wrong direction’ | PandoDaily2014-05-03T17:53:23+00:00
http://pando.com/2014/03/26/euphemism-of-the-day-airbnb-admits-they-hacked-customer-happiness-in-the-wrong-direction/
asterisk2aAirbnb customer service support hospitality business Social Media communication PR public relations Start-Up Start-Ups entrepreneurship people management internet culture corporatehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:ccf0cc561543/Airbnb's $500M Funding, Twitter Buys Gnip, Instagram's Username Scandal - CrunchWeek | TechCrunch TV2014-04-19T16:37:26+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/video/airbnbs-500m-funding-twitter-buys-gnip-instagrams-username-scandal/518201831/
asterisk2aAirbnb hospitality business brand brands branding IPO growth round late-stage funding regulators regulationhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:402612dd3ebe/Joe Gebbia - The Airbnb Story - YouTube2014-04-18T21:30:31+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKxNhkzfTWg
asterisk2a> providing accommodation for events. Staying in someones place is very different than a hotel. a hotel is generic. every AirBnB is different. It is an experience. not only might you experience a new city, but you also experience someones life, how he or she or they live. Their view. Plus - this is the time of the Airbnb - experience services - because millennials favour experiences of commoditised consumer goods. and babyboomers want that cake too because of the youthification trend. only retrospective u see the pieces of the puzzle.]]>Airbnb social society science study experience user sharing is caring service economy 9flats Start-Up Y combinator citybreak travel traveling B2C marketing viral creating markets blue ocean strategy disruption disrupting accomodation business hotel Bed & Breakfast vacation niche creativity creative destruction value creation differentiation differentiate civic life hacker western lifestyle lifehacks work balance active generationy Millennials commoditization accommodation commodity focus group youthification babyboomers Consumerism consumerist word of mouth network effect hospitality asking for help generosity generoushttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:1902e820148e/