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San Diego 2017 - INTERFACE Tour

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Thursday, June 8, 2017 -- INTERFACE San Diego 2017. INTERFACE addresses these IT issues through informative, non-sales oriented, educational seminars customized to the specific needs of the local business community.

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Reflections On 2017: Peter Cowen, Sutton Capital Partners

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What was the biggest personal lesson you learned from 2017? Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software that particularly caught your eye in 2017? To start the day earlier and value routine in the morning. The attractive by-product is that I am reading more and working out more.

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Hulu Opens Up Customer Service Site In Texas

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Los Angeles-based streaming television- and video-provider Hulu has selected San Antonio, Texas, as the site for a new customer service center, the company said on Thursday. Hulu said it will hire 300 people by the end of 2017, and another 200 in 2018, as part of the new "viewer experience headquarters" in Texas. READ MORE>>.

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Customer Trust Is An Opportunity With A Huge Payback

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There are others, like Norton LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3 I see lots of new software put together on a shoestring as a “proof of concept” – but then gets rolled out to customers “asis” due to lack of time or money to “harden” the product. Don’t take shortcuts on these.

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A year in review: productboard’s top 10 posts from 2017

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Read on for our top posts from 2017! ?? Anyone could submit an idea, and others in the customer community could participate by upvoting and commenting on the ideas they liked best! In the meantime, we’ll continue publishing thoughts and ideas we’ve learned from great product managers here. Still prioritizing features in a spreadsheet?

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7 Groups Of Difficult Customers Test Every Business

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Have you ever noticed that some of your business owner friends get all the bad customers, and yours all seem fairly reasonable? I’m always amazed that, in my role as a business advisor, bad customers somehow seem to gang up on certain businesses. The reality is that we all make mistakes, so no customer is always right.

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ClickUp Collects $35M

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According to ClickUp, its customers included Google, Nike, Uber, Airbnb, Netflix, and Ubisoft, where it helps replace or integrate workplace applications for employees. The company was founded in 2017. As part of the funding, David Sacks has joined the board. Zeb Evans is Founder and CEO of ClickUp. READ MORE>>.

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