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Kevin Maney on designing your own category

Intercom, Inc.

In this era of ever-increasing digital disruption and innovation, category design can be the ultimate business strategy for brands wishing to stand out from the crowd. The book aims to help companies apply category design to open new markets and create new demand. and the Making of IBM , and The Two-Second Advantage.

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Instacart

Andreessen Horowitz

Grocery is the largest retail category in the U.S., and in 2014, it had the lowest digital penetration of any category. On the shopper side, Instacart was leveraging the emerging gig economy, which was enabled by the strong penetration of smartphones in the U.S. Instacart didn’t need to build and stock warehouses.

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Product vs. Product Category: The Challenges of Developing “The Next Big Thing” as a SaaS Start-Up

Baremetrics

Not just a new product; the start of a whole new product category. What is a product category, and how do you recognize whether your great idea promises to become a new class of its own? The journeys of developing a product and developing a product category usually start from a similar place. Table of Contents.

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AI Copilots and the Future of Knowledge Work

Andreessen Horowitz

Over the past couple of years and maybe the past 12 months, in particular, with the launch of ChatGPT and GPT-4, you can really see the potential of the platform in the same light as the personal computer or the smartphone. I don’t think the smartphone helped much at all in terms of productivity and knowledge work.

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What is a UGC Creator and How to Become One in 2023 (ft. Advice from Experts)

Buffer Resources

That’s the story of many UGC creators – they go in with zero experience but armed with a smartphone and a creative eye, they can start charging brands to talk about their products and services for their social media platforms in no time. A smartphone. That’s it. How can you pick a niche?

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Understanding Credit Card Processing Fees for Merchants: How Much Does Processing Credit Cards Cost?

Stax

Considered in the fees are the types of credit card, processing type, and type of business — e.g., the merchant category code (MCC). Finally, the merchant category code (MCC) is a four-digit number that credit card companies use to classify consumers’ transactions. Amex and Visa, as a result, will have different interchange fees.

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EMV Chip Cards: What You Need to Know About PIN or Signature Cards and How They Work

Stax

NFC On the other hand, NFC is a short-range wireless communication technology that enables devices, such as smartphones or contactless cards, to communicate with each other when brought into close proximity (usually within a few centimeters). NFC technology is commonly used in contactless payment systems, mobile payment apps (e.g.,