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recent bookmarks from asterisk2aHow Microsoft Lost Its Mojo: Steve Ballmer and Corporate America’s Most Spectacular Decline | Vanity Fair2015-09-15T14:19:35+00:00
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2012/08/microsoft-lost-mojo-steve-ballmer
asterisk2aSteve Ballmer Bill Gates Apple Google Inc. Alphabet Platform EULA Windows 8 10 Satya Nadella Leadership CEO mission vision Principle Mittelstand SME SMB consumer product Facebook Twitter Bing Yahoo! WhatsApp WeChat Line Kakao Talk Silo SAAS Microsoft Azure AWS Amazon Silicon Valley Android iOS Hardware Software Nokia Patent patents IP intellectual property technological progress history disruption disrupting markets bottom up dream Start-Up lesson advice Venture Capital Google+ Tumblr Reddit AOL linkedin foursquare Dennis Crowley HBOhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:57a2f725212f/Why Billion-Dollar Valuations Don’t Matter | TechCrunch2015-08-25T22:21:17+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/25/why-billion-dollar-valuations-dont-matter/#.qy0vrq:ySLt
asterisk2aUnicorn SAAS Slack DropBox Box Venture Capital Silicon Valley growth round 2015 KPI metrics accounting user churn customer retention upselling acquisition CAC Decacorn on-demand convenience Marketplace business model Product/Market Fit Share Economy middleman scale economies of FOMO hunt for yield Start-Up advice lesson burn rate runway Homejoy Net Promoter Score consumer product B2C B2Bhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:af381e77a133/Growth vs Retention – AVC2015-08-22T21:21:08+00:00
http://avc.com/2015/07/growth-vs-retention/
asterisk2auser churn customer acquisition Product/Market Fit MVP business strategy product Start-Up lesson advice burn rate runway Homejoy distribution model discovery content Net Promoter Score word of mouth Tribe 1000 True Fans UI UX experience engagement retention service SAAS marketing growth round cost center short-term view thinking feedbackhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:1989b43486ca/The New Tech CEO Archetype – AVC2015-08-22T20:54:59+00:00
http://avc.com/2015/08/the-new-tech-ceo-archetype/
asterisk2aCEO Leadership consumer product multi-product company management strategy Silicon Valley Wall Street Technology business SAAS bottom-up Slack Box DropBox long-term view thinkinghttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:4e1a5ac1824c/Everything you think you know about the economy of the Internet is dead wrong - Quartz2015-08-14T09:43:59+00:00
http://qz.com/479116/everything-you-think-you-know-about-the-economy-of-the-internet-is-dead-wrong/
asterisk2ae-commerce SAAS B2B consumer product digital economy pure play brick and mortar business ICT OECD economic growth trickle-down economics tax evasion avoidance SME SMB Mittelstand shared interest ecosystem flat world globalization globalisation global trade borderless outsourcing Policy Makers error follyhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:4b86e37e0961/Ross Mayfield and Mark Suster on maintaining focus as a SaaS startup2015-07-26T01:32:19+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnjdn3TZumU
asterisk2aSAAS Box Aaron Levie Start-Up lesson advice Focus Product/Market Fit Core Product Value Proposition management experiencehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:6d75394c9ecf/Banner “Fraud” Doesn’t Matter | Hacker News2015-07-21T00:06:27+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9914021
asterisk2adisplay advertising banner ads click fraud AdSense pageviews Google Search brand awareness billboard user experience engagement Social Media eyeballs CPM commoditization clickthrough native branded content marketing advertisement targeting re-targeting Programmatic advertorial business model cycle confidence consumer SAAS product closetphile long-term view thinking sustainability sustainable Product/Market Fit Core Value Proposition added creation Net Promoter Score network effect viral coefficient Start-Up lesson advice subscription productivity aspirational mass market niche Popular Culture Pop bait clicks Clickbait Linkbait linkbaiting Newsfeed gatekeeper impression metrics commodity attention span behaviour mobile first homescreen paradgimshift uncertainty Evernote DropBox paywalls paywallhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:fac76ad69cb7/Cloud HR Startup Zenefits Is Looking To Raise A Giant New Round Of Funding | TechCrunch2015-04-22T17:44:57+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/21/zenefits-400-million/#.qy0vrq:TJeG
asterisk2a COO/Accounting/HR // youtu.be/7KmjzfK3f38 min 11 Start-up struggle, figuring it out along the way but having a sense // (2015) youtu.be/8DwlS_6jLAo "Hyperscaling Inside Sales" &! YC W2013 application video - youtu.be/-S83fysRwn4]]>valuation Silicon Valley Zenefits HR Unicorn growth round enterprise 2.0 SAAS SPV business model customer acquisition user churn marketing Box DropBox Salesforce ZenDesk experience Software Is Eating The World operations freemium scaling LTV scale human resources hiring Core Product Value Proposition saleshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:770d5b737b5f/