Or he could draw foreign engineers away from outsourcing firms and into fast - growing technology companies, which
build products we all use and create new jobs for Americans.
The company has reportedly been hustling on a stealthy smart glasses project, and we now know that it recently became a member of a Bluetooth special interest group that will allow it to
build products using the wireless communications technology.
«Over the last decade,
we built a product used by millions of people.
While the rest of Silicon Valley is busy crowning unicorns, Ted Livingston — all of 28 years old — has been quietly
building a product used by some 200 million people.
Previous experience of investing in software companies that hire direct sales organizations and take years to
build the product using waterfall development doesn't translate to expertise in Consumer Internet startups.
After carefully validating the concept, we partner up with brilliant entrepreneurs to
build a product used by millions.
Adds Vigoda, «The LEC product proves that we can
build products using these probability gate circuits and bring significant value versus digital technology.»
At the Heritage Canada convention in Ottawa recently, Rick Smith, co-author of Slow Death by Rubber Duck discussed the dangers of phthalates, the plasticizer that is mixed into vinyl to make it flexible, and that's found in many of
the building products we use.
Not exact matches
Rechargeable batteries have a limited lifespan — and most Apple
products have a
built - in one — so the shutdown issue is something all devices will eventually have to deal with if they're
used long enough.
So then getting back to the question of how do we pay for this system, this is really quite a profound — I won't call it breakthrough, but realization that if we can
build a system that cannibalizes our own
products, makes our own
products redundant, then all of the resources, which are quite enormous, that are
used for Falcon 9, Heavy, and Dragon, can be applied to one system.
If your customers don't «succeed» by
using your
product how can you
build a great company?
You can
use media relations tactics to place articles and win interviews, get coverage by allowing key press to review your
product, hold a launch event, or
use grass roots marketing to
build buzz.
Using this methodology, you iterate based on customer feedback at each step of the way, so that you know you're
building a
product, or delivering a service, that customers want and will pay for.
He and Fritz are
building a community of early adopters to test out the
product and report back on which
use cases they found most valuable.
We decided to
build a
product that people love and make sure everyone's
using it.
Rather than
building more big box stores to sell grocery, health, and beauty
products under one roof, Loblaw will be able to
use urban - friendly Shoppers locations to offer its President's Choice brand items while the drug stores continue to sell pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.
The customer photos are a great way to
build brand loyalty when customers can see themselves
using her
product on her social media sites.
Dropbox, Uber, Erin Condren Design, Eat Purely and others have successfully
used referral incentives to
build their businesses by offering both their existing and new customers an incentive for sharing their
products and services with the people they know.
Scott Dorsey, the co-founder and CEO of ExactTarget, said in an interview with Inc: «When we started the company we hoped to
build a software
product that added enough real value that customers would want to
use it, and in the process to try to
build a business.»
Right now I'm
using my blog as a «Get to Know Me» type of free service to really
build up a strong presence before offering up targeted services &
products.
More than 1,000 people responded; the company took that feedback and
used it to
build a
product called Priming Moisturizer Rich, which it released in January.
Many land at Haxlr8r, an accelerator that has graduated more than 50 companies
using a now - familiar model: Learn the basics of manufacturing and develop a prototype; raise funds (and
build buzz) in the United States through Kickstarter; manufacture the
product; and drop - ship it anywhere in the world through the Pearl River Delta's unparalleled logistics networks.
Play a role in the customer perspective at every step by making sure the business and
product use accessible language at each stage of
building, designing, improving, selling and revising.
And then, critically, the company began
using Instagram to
build mini focus groups and quickly create
products based on what they learn.
Investors like to know their money will be
used to
build products, hire employees or add to the business in some other tangible way.
Rather than naming the company after its first
product, they suggested
building an overall brand identity and then
using the power of the superbrand to launch subsequent
products.
If you
build something truly great, you will find that your customers will not only
use your
products, they will rave about it to others.
So why would a company
build a
product it doesn't really want you to
use?
That plastic sheet might be converted into any number of seemingly unrelated
products: a flexible bag to package nuts for retail sale; a liner (officially a «geomembrane») meant to sit atop a water reservoir; or a vapour barrier
used in walls in newly
built residential construction projects.
Then your not promoting and
building your brand, your simply promoting everyone's
use of a common name on a
product.
He talked at length about business's responsibility to be aware of its affect on the planet and shared the Patagonia mission statement to «
build the best
product, do no unnecessary harm,
use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.»
A strong
product demo doesn't need to include every potential feature but should take the investor through the key
use cases showcasing why you
built the
product the way you
built it.
The firm even
built its own oil barrels and employed scientists to find new
uses for petroleum by -
products.
You can
use Facebook advertising to cheaply
build brand awareness and affinity or create new demand for your
products or services.
Instead,
use them as case studies to
build a better
product and company.
-- Jay Jamison, SVP of strategy and
product management at Quick Base, maker of a no - code tool that enables workers to
build apps without needing to know how to write a single line of code and that is
used by more than half of Fortune 100 companies including Google, Kayak, and Southwest Airlines
While some entrepreneurs are
building up the Detroit urban farming industry, others are hard at work
using the materials of abandoned homes to create an industry of craft
products.
Patagonia, for instance, aspires to «
build the best
product, cause no unnecessary harm,
use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.»
But as we
built the
product I couldn't shake the sinking feeling that I didn't see a real
use for it.
They then may
use the summer to fully
build a
product or platform and test it with potential customers.
Software companies can
build special
product demos that very clearly show prospects how much they can gain by
using their
product or the money or time they can save with it.
The company achieves this in large part by beginning the design of every
product with a low price in mind, and by
building its furniture
using low - cost medium - density fiberboard (MDF), which the company purchases in large volumes.
Yet like the forest industry then, the oilpatch today has problems with international acceptance of its
products and resistance at home to many of the things it wants to do and
used to do happily, without a peep of protest —
building pipelines being chief among them.
There is a
built - in community of early adopters who will
use your
product, beat it up and tell the honest truth about it, which can push you higher.
Entrepreneurs first map their assumptions and then test these hypotheses with customers out in the field (customer development) and
use an iterative and incremental development methodology (agile development) to
build the
product.
Many more
use its white - label
products every day in restaurants, hotels, schools and office
buildings.
During my visit, I'm not allowed inside the two
buildings where Bombardier is developing its Learjet 85 and Global 7000 and 8000 business jets,
product lines that will
use new composite - construction technology to reduce weight and improve fuel efficiency.
«One thing I always look at when I'm trying to
build products is that people just like to
use beautiful things, so keep it as dead simple as possible and easy to understand.»
Rather than cater to a partner ecosystem — where it designs the software for other hardware makers to
use in their
products — Microsoft may have to pivot more to designing devices like the Xbox, where it
builds both aspects.
Startup Garage, a second - year elective, asks students to
build an idea for a company
using, in part, the lean startup model, Eric Ries's method of developing and rolling out
products or services quickly to avoid costly failures.