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Product Positioning Strategy In Economic Volatility: Lessons From The Obviously Awesome April Dunford

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April Dunford sat in the back of a marketing class at Northwestern University in Chicago, where her professor gave an example of a product positioning statement. By filling in the appropriate answers, you would design a product positioning statement that would suffice for your product and company. Positioning is not a tagline. .

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How Benn Stancil’s newsletter became the cure for data biz ‘thought leadership’

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But just because Benn tells me his writing isn’t “useful” in the ways that most content marketing strategies would hope for, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t offer business value alongside its obvious entertaining and edifying values. You’re a company founder and a CTO. What emerged was just what worked in my mind and what entertained me.

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

Business of Software Conference

It’s been quite entertaining over the years, actually, there been a lot of people. April Dunford Positioning BoS USA. 40:38 James Avery, Kevel: But it really got myself and my VP of Marketing, thinking just about positioning a lot more, right, we both read the book, I saw her speak again, at the virtual conference.

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

It’s a form of entertainment.[^1]. Jahan Khanna, cofounder/CTO of Sidecar spoke of its origin: It was obvious that letting anyone sign up to a driver would be a big deal. You could sign up without filling in a bunch of forms. The other problem was how to wade through all the replies.

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Here’s what our Business of Software Conference USA 2018 Speakers are Reading

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Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse, CTO. Entertaining and thought provoking! I am currently reading Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker about how, despite recent setbacks, the general direction of civilization is inexorably positive for the whole of humanity. Good to Great by Jim Collins. Rich Mironov, Mironov Consulting.

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14 years building BoS

Business of Software Conference

I mean, laugh out loud, entertaining. And it just goes to show how, how much they have got to say and what intelligent and positive contributions that people have in those in those situations, if you give them the right, specs, and I’m not a psychologist, I’m not some kind of that open mind bending thing.

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Launching a New Breakout Product | Jason Fried | BoS USA Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

Like it wouldn’t be fun, wouldn’t be entertaining ,wouldn’t be interesting to us. And I think, you know, we have a much higher percentage than normal of the community in BoS who are self funded, or bootstrap, I mean bootstraped in a positive, sensible, meaningful way. Other than that, do we want to keep doing it?