You’ll likely take a revenue hit and strain your operations. So make sure you’re doing a daily deal for the right reason. Dear Jeff, Everything I read seems to say daily deals are a bad deal for the business. I’m a contrarian by nature, so are there any situations where running a daily deal can…
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Evernote: Company of the Year
The Company of the Year is rejecting industry trends, getting customers to pay for something that’s free, and reinventing the way we remember. Phil Libin remembers the moment he left childhood behind. It was nearly four years ago, when the funding for his Internet start-up fell through. He was 35. It had all been so…
7 Steps to a Culture of Innovation
Hyper-growth companies often credit a culture of innovation as their primary driver of success. They deploy creative thinking to attack problems big and small. Here’s how you can too. We live in a business world accelerating at a dizzying speed and teeming with ruthless competition. As most of the tangible advantages of the past have…
What Steve Jobs Taught Me About Growth
Finding that first market — a few customers willing to pay for your early product — is hard enough. But there’s one thing that may be even harder. And that’s finding the second market. Especially because companies are often so focused on protecting what they already have. In 1996 when Steve Jobs returned to Apple,…
The Fastest-Growing Private Company of 2011
Dreamy jazz floats in the background, but the woman vogueing for the camera is so Olivia Newton-John that the theme from Xanadu springs unbidden to the brain. Tangled blond ponytail. Gold lamé body suit over a bandage-size black halter. Plummy purple leggings. The leggings have to go. “That purple is too magazine,” pronounces merchandising director…
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