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“More important than building a product, we are in the process of architecting a company that will hopefully be much more incredible, the total will be much more incredible than the sum of its parts, and the cumulative effort of approximately 20,000 decisions that we’re all gonna make over the next two years are gonna define what our company is. And one of the things that made Apple great was that, in the early days, it was built from the heart.”—Steve Jobs and NeXT: Rare PBS Documentary circa 1986 | Brain Pickings

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“The entire company operates with what you might call a game mind. Not a product-building mind, not a marketing mind, not a sales mind. The key to a great game mind is having a preternatural ability to figure out which game to play, against which opponent. And once you’ve decided what game you’re in, aligning the entire company so that it has the capacity to play that specific game better than anybody else.”—I’ve long been a huge fan of Amazon. Great look into the company: Why Amazon Is The Best Strategic Player In Tech - Forbes

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“[Customer data] is a hugely valuable part of our business. I think we have the best personalisation of anyone, maybe second to Amazon,” he said. “For example, when you get an email in the morning, that’s one of 2,000 versions that goes out. The data is run every night, based on the sales, based on what we think [individual customers] are going to buy. When you open up the [website] you get a different page than I do; I actually get different sales than you do.”—

The Rise, Stumble and Future of Gilt Groupe’s Business Model

Personalization is the new social.

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“Not so the new breed of e-commerce sites. They obviously optimize for conversion. But their core value proposition is based on entertainment, gaming or social. To channel Maslov, now that we’re able to easily buy the stuff we want and need online, we look to fulfill our “higher” needs via commerce: To express ourselves, to identify and connect with one another, to be entertained.”—The new new commerce — Tech News and Analysis

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“Fab.com founder and CEO Jason Goldberg tells me social activity is mighty important to the company; more than 50 percent of its now 1.4 million strong registered user base were introduced to the site by people sharing items for sale at Fab on social networks.”—

Now At 1.4M Members, Fab.com Turns Up The Social With A ‘Live Feed’

Social commerce is fact not feature at Fab.com

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“So go ahead, question everything if you have to, but remember that impossible is only true until you prove it otherwise.”—Another great story of inspiration from revolutions.is

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“Your plate is full, right?
You’ve been at this for a while.
Life is your kind of kuh-raz-eee.
And then it gets fuller, and the time has come, or there’s a curve-ball, and things get well n’ truly wild.
And you could say, because it’s your right to, that you’re feeling “overwhelmed”. But don’t. Don’t go there. Stay with me, on the light side of change and bursting creativity; on the front end of pressure, and greatness, and the best and worst kinds of challenges.”—

Why We Need to Stop Using the Word Overwhelmed | EcoSalon | Conscious Culture and Fashion

Stay with me.

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Dec 7, 2011

#CodeAcademy #DemoDay

“One third of all ecommerce in the US is travel based.”—

Where is the consumer interest in a limited Google Flight Search? | Tnooz

If you count the ‘local’ industry it gets even bigger.

Dec 7, 2011

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