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The 50-50 Rule in Retail: Capturing Customer Conversations
Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 12:34 am, Over one day old at Phil Windley's Technometria
Ross Mayfield notes that in an Apple retails store "50% of the space is for retail sales and 50% for service and support." He goes on to contrast that with places like Fry's or Best Buy. Ross goes on: For your business online, what porportion is dedicated to retail vs. support?
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Starting a High Tech Business: Speed Pitching
Posted Monday June 9, 2008, 12:33 am, Over one day old at Phil Windley's Technometria
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Turning Shoppers Into Customers
Posted Thursday May 29, 2008, 12:33 am, Over one day old at Phil Windley's Technometria
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Doing CPAN Installs Using Capistrano
Posted Friday May 9, 2008, 11:16 pm, Over one day old at Phil Windley's Technometria
One problem I ran into is that I have a private CPAN bundle that I use to ensure a machine has all the right Perl libraries when I deploy to it. There's an environment variable called PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT that when true causes the MakeMaker prompt function to assume the default answer.
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VC Meetings Next Thursday
Posted Thursday May 8, 2008, 6:14 pm, Over one day old at Phil Windley's Technometria
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Starting a High Tech Business: Getting Five Clients
Posted Friday April 18, 2008, 12:32 am, Over one day old at Phil Windley's Technometria
Sooner or later when you're starting a new venture, you need more money than you can raise with your credit card, a second mortgage, or selling your plane. Get more clients: the is "customer funded" development That's vital in a startup where there's always more to do than you have time for.
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Starting a Small Business: Active Paticipation or Passive Resentment?
Posted Thursday April 10, 2008, 12:30 am, Over one day old at Phil Windley's Technometria
We don't link for Google's benefit, but whenever you do, you're helping Google make sense of the world. Amazon also relies on implicit participation, but also uses explicit requests of the customers to help make their service better: reviews, list, and wish lists are all examples.
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Starting a High Tech Business: What's Your Story
Posted Monday March 17, 2008, 1:36 am, Over one day old at Phil Windley's Technometria
When you talk to someone who's starting a business, ask them what they do--you can tell how far along they are by the answer you get. You might find it a little discouraging to think that you're going to be a year into something and still discovering new ways to think about it.
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