Lessons from the PayPal developer conference
PayPal’s developer conference in early November, the company’s first such event, gave some good lessons for tech companies that want to create their own developer communities. Since that seems to include most tech firms these days, we thought it might…
Harvard Business Publishing: Umair Haque - What Apple Knows That Facebook Doesn’t
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Let's not do it again
Harry Max send these two links, here, and here. on web-based failures yesterday and they had me going down memory lane. From lamo things to Beenz to worthy ideas like WebVan. It is both funny and sad to see the abslutely
And so I remind you/me/everyone the simple lesson we must hold onto. Every successful company has to have a clear customer pain/problem that they MUST solve. No company, regardless of the zany notion or the fantastic technology succeeds without that.
Tags: Customer Pain , Web Failures
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