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Kevin O’Connor Discusses The Secrets Of Success - Hint: There Are No Secrets

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If you care to review my prior discussion with Kevin, you can do so HERE. Throughout his career, Kevin has had tremendous success garnering press. More recently, Kevin has generated positive attention, as the press is anxious to see if he can replicate his multiple billion dollar exits. At that time, I was not utilizing video.

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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

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We went through the euphoria of massive exposure at the time of our launch due to an article that ran in the Financial Times. Our software wasn’t fully baked. We had one of the largest US software companies talk about buying us. You’re only reading our competitor’s press releases. We were unprepared.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

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We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. But it seemed strange to me that we would openly talk about stuff rather than waiting for a big announcement to the press.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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I recently read this anecdote in the press (withholding company name because I actually really love the concept). I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. They had to spend time training our new resources, reviewing code, refactoring where mistakes were made, attending meetings, etc.

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A Bigger Truth About Restaurant Food Delivery

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For starters Uber itself has had to lay off 27% of its workforce due to the pandemic and has been severely impacted financially from the crisis with no immediate respite in sight. So while many restaurants knew they eventually needed to invest in better order management software, many had been putting it off.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put.

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The Truth About the Scooter Economy?—?An Insider’s Perspective

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This year we’re in > 100+ cities and 100+ campuses and we’re operational with street teams, better software, better bikes and a more informed ridership. They also were exclusive to Bird so they gave the company a competitive advantage. It really does put things into perspective, doesn’t it?