InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

Thus, entrepreneurs must decide when to stop listening to the Sirens’ song of a quick buck and position their company to take advantage of long-term, sustainable business models. Perhaps in part due to its dominant market share, WebEx adopted telecom-style pricing, which effectively penalized their users. Arbitrage Is Fleeting.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 4, 2013

Unfortunately, successful musicians seldom have the luxury of market testing their subsequent albums. Lesson: As described in Go For The Quick Buck , wily startups also devise creative ways to secure funding from their customers, rather than from investors. This audience feedback allowed the band to iteratively modify their creation.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

If Jeff and his team had launched a more prudent, scaled-back site, it is arguable they would have never achieved the critical mass that eventually led to the company’s widespread market acceptance. Don’t Chase The Quick Buck. Sometimes we measure things and see that in the short term they actually hurt sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products. They pronounced “The End of Software.&# It was typical Marc Benioff marketing hyperbole but it was very effective. Their company, my company and countless others espoused cloud-based applications.

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