Steve was fired from Apple after launching one bad product (the NeXt computer).
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Which is ever so slightly strange: not apologising for a bad product seems to get you fired faster than delivering a bad product does.
For example, Goldfayn illustrates why public relations needs to be involved at conceptualization, not at the end of the process, trying to find ways to make a bad product look good.
None of this means Facebook is a bad company, product or IPO.
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It's a few days before a big Apple event, and you know what that means: a ridiculous amount of really bad fake Apple product shots.
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After it was revealed that the editor of the mass-market Daily Mirror had published faked photos purporting to show British troops abusing Iraqi prisoners, shareholders took the view that this was bad for the product and got him sacked.
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This allows them to save on warehouse space (especially where refrigeration is required), prevents their product from going bad and, of course, saves money by limiting the amount of product they have on hand to only what they need at any given moment in time.
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One bad review about a product or service in a store or online and it goes viral.
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Borders was egregiously bad at identifying consumer product and lifestyle trends, introducing candles and stationery, CDs and DVDs at a time when consumers were moving in other directions.
One even comes to be fond of a bad name, if the product itself is delightful.
In fact, they are preferable to ill-fated acquisitions, bad business decisions and lackluster product lines.
But manipulation must often seem like a good idea in the heat of the moment--when a company is facing bad news on an important product that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to develop.
Remember the adage: Nothing can destroy a product as quickly as bad advertising?
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Second, the new Torch product line has received crushingly bad reviews and is apparently flopping out of the gate.
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Almost every day he was getting calls from divisions breaking bad news that their wares were losing product reviews at Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Kmart and Target.
But a customer with a bad enough experience with any one of the product lines may shun all the others.
With the woes of the financial sector grabbing headlines, technology companies could opt to write-off bad acquisitions now, kill ill-conceived product lines or lay off unneeded workers.
Granted, these are all extremely minor, but things like this just look bad, and they reflect poorly on a product that could be absolutely rock solid from a technical perspective.
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Thus the extended advance lead-in marketing is partially a product of the attempt to mitigate bad buzz that can hamper the ability of mediocre and bad films to at least break even.
Now, the successful, immensely popular product will cease to be because of bad management decisions.
Having been stung by the tiny pests, I couldn't believe some marketing genius could get away with naming any product after an insect with such a bad reputation.
Bad news is already in the stock, from the product delays mentioned above to expectations of low guidance for the June quarter.
No product is designed to make its consumers feel bad, of course.
Red Roof Inn is particularly bad: they deliver a very good mid-market product at a costly investment, but insist on claiming an economy hotel market position and charging an economy price, even in markets where they could easily command a higher rate.
So maybe there was plenty of evidence that these defendants decided to ship bad peanut butter ... but maybe not enough that this product actually caused injury to each person.
The bad: Microsoft grossly mismanaged the Windows Vista launch as it rushed to get the product out in response to enterprise pressures.
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The current leading product, Elizabeth, is looking tired, and has suffered from the recent bout of bad publicity.
Claflin agreed that, after three years bad years in corporate spending on tech, there's lots of pressure for fewer companies to offer big product lines.
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