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Behind Every Great Product

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Of course, most of the Mac user base was not on new PowerMacs, they were on 'regular' Macs -- hardware upgrade cycles were much slower then. Moreover, users choose their devices and platforms because they value what's different , not the same. PowerMacs were just hitting the market, which had significantly faster chips and more memory.

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Why Your ‘Brilliant’ Technology Fails To Have Impact | Tom Adeyoola, Metail | BoS Europe 2018

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And far from being a company that was going to deliver a whole bunch of customers who were going to be innovative adopters the likes of people who buy Apple products, actually where 3G had to play in the end was with cheap voice for effectively ‘chavs’ is the way they called it. Again pre any sort of touchscreen devices that went consumer.

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Growth, Funding, Pivotal Moments and the Evolution of Adzerk to Kevel

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3:00 James Avery, Kevel: But yeah, so I started it started back in 2009, it took a little while to get a real customer of the ad network, the software to kind of run display advertising and things like that. And then in 2010, we got our first customer. In 2011 we raised money. 2:43 Mark: Yeah. We raised like a seed round.