umtrey

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by umtrey 13y ago
Tesco was the first company to really do this right - there's a book called Scoring Points[1] that outlines this in details. By using the detailed profiles of customers, they learned that giving discounts on products customers cared about w
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Bail Out the Boat(treyspringer.com)
2 points by umtrey 14y ago|0 comments
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by umtrey 14y ago
Success comes in many flavors. The author's version of personal success is way more angled towards professional and business success, where I may put more emphasis on an amazing relationship with my children as a bigger factor of personal s
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by umtrey 15y ago
I'd say it is entirely Apple's Execution. Someone used this machine before they pushed it out the door. Someone had to have gone, "this trackpad is just awful!" And yet, nothing changed about it, and they released it. It's hard for me to se
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by umtrey 15y ago
Great point. Consumers are also heavily biased towards what they already know or see in similar devices - "oh, if it had a removable battery, I need that" or "I need it to vibrate when I type on it," and so on. They might all be valid desir
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by umtrey 15y ago
An unintended consequence would be limiting education based on financial ability - a school would not admit a lower income student as opposed to a higher income student. While this does occur in loans, and also in property taxes feeding sch
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by umtrey 15y ago
Also, from a design standpoint, the idea of using LEDs is being challenged - while the designer mentions a lack of snow build-up, the traditional lights do a good job of emitting enough heat to melt snow drift: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/
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by umtrey 15y ago
People are worried about the cloud-killing PR mistake or security breach that will cripple the efforts to get data into these controlled data centers, so this makes perfect sense. Start the focus with something everyone will know: Music. If
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by umtrey 15y ago
I can't find the article that originally referenced this... but the idea that Apple would buy a phone company was made obsolete with the AT&T service issues that were present in the United States. By commercially separating the Network
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by umtrey 15y ago
If we look at the rise of easier and easier to use graphic design programs - Photoshop, Illustrator, and so on - we don't see a decreased relevance of experienced or quality graphic design professionals. Instead, the ability to get somethin
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by umtrey 16y ago
That's not the point - it may be the easiest for the users, but it's not the easiest for the entire system. The system is primarily made up of the hosts of the data, which would be these private companies who would rather not deal with any
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by umtrey 16y ago
If I were looking for this kind of person, I'd want them to know that different people see tasks differently. Some people see simple design stuff as "bullshit work" while others see having to parse through server logs as "bullshit work." Th
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by umtrey 16y ago
I would guess that the source of department donations would drive focus for many universities - and not many startups are dropping seven figures for new buildings or fellowships.
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by umtrey 16y ago
Gone are the tacit alliances with fellow subway riders, the brief evolution of sympathy with pedestrians. That predictable progress of unspoken affinity is now interrupted by an impulse to either refresh a page or to take a website-worthy
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by umtrey 16y ago
And even if you're restless (like I most certainly was), you can still work while you're in school for a company, the university you attend, or yourself. Best of both worlds, and it keeps loans down. But the one big thing that college offer
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by umtrey 16y ago
There's a fine line between being tough and taking an unnecessary risk. If you're not in a position where you can walk into your job to find it doesn't exist anymore, it is your obligation to yourself and your family to manage that. If you
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by umtrey 16y ago
He was likely in school for 9 of those months, so if you only have a quarter to sell (13 weeks), that's 26 times per year, or 182 times overall. 20 bucks a session at a lemonade stand is a HAUL.
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by umtrey 16y ago
Ha ha, it's just a large iPhone or iPod Touch! Ha ha, how clever! Also, it has a name similar to feminine hygiene products! Ha! Really, though, we get the point. It's very similar in shape and looks, and doesn't have much in the way of new
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by umtrey 17y ago
Denying the problem isn't going to win them any points here, nor is off-handedly stating "oh, we're working on it, but don't blame us." They could start turning the discussion the other way to admit to problems, get releases out quickly to
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by umtrey 17y ago
I wish there was a video of this somewhere. I would need to hear his voice inflection to really get his true... attitude on life and relationships. "When it seemed I would be writing about 'Midnite Madness Sale-abrations' for the rest of my
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by umtrey 17y ago
People didn't switch to the Mac in droves when XCode came out, or when Apple switched to OS X. It took a closed platform - a perfectly cultured, strictly defined environment that was the iPod to start building the halo (and with that, peopl