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Why Netflix didn’t follow the regular Gold, Silver styled subscription plan names from the beginning

NextBigWhat

It is quite natural for any company to follow the industry trend of naming pricing plans – after all, use the nomenclature what others are using, as customers (we hope) understand these nomenclatures quite well. And you have to spend ad money/attention educating consumer on what the name of the plans mean. Simple, right?

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Japanese Female Entrepreneurs who Thrive Against the Odds

freshtrax

According to Amy Jin , who spoke at an event by Startup Grind on Women’s Leadership , there are more CEOs named Mike than women CEOs in the world. She was subsequently named among the 100 most influential people in 2015 by TIME magazine. Also, in one Japanese startup event, the percentage of female speakers was less than 5%.

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How To Build Your Audience Well Before Launching Your Product

Sachin Rekhi

It launched its now famous Signal vs. Noise blog in 2001 to share their ideas about design, business, and the web. And they knew that many of these folks would be leveraging the Internet, namely blogs, to learn the latest on personal finance. 37signals , SEOmoz , and Mint.com are three such success stories.

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Top 10 FinTech Software Development Companies 2019

The Product Coalition

It provides a suite of comprehensive software development services for various industries, such as FinTech, healthcare, education, eCommerce, etc. Since 2014, the company has been a trusted partner for more than 50 startups and global brands like Pepsi, Vimeo, Barbarian, etc. It is one of the leading financial IT service providers.

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Erika Hall on the importance of conversation in design

Intercom, Inc.

It’s terrifying when I say we started at the end of 2001, which is now a very, very long time ago. Adam: When you look at the artifacts, you see a lot of old school literary examples, the type of stuff we learned and the classic education sense coming up, which is not conversational writing for a system or an interface.

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Leading A High-Growth Company | David Cancel, Drift | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

They have a big you know a huge education behind them, huge set of expectations from their parents, huge set of expectations from society. And then I stumbled upon another man another person named Sam who’s my next mentor. So I have like three mentors named Sam. And they have a lot to risk. And he became my first mentor.

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The Many Flavors Of Agile: What’s The Right One For Your Team? | Bethany Pagels-Minor, Apple | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

So “agile, the beginning” I always feel like there should be like that doo doo doo music we do this, so what happened was in 2001 all 17 guys which they were all guys – obviously the next one’s going to have some women as well. People will go out they’ll educate themselves. I feel like I’m educating people.

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