But he quickly found a lucrative niche in the Internet business-to-business market.
Also, to compete in the business-to-business market, not just mass consumer.
But what about the business-to-business market?
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Seattle could even find itself left behind in the dot.com revolution, since local companies such as Amazon.com, HomeGrocer.com and Drugstore.com have staked their all on the consumer market just when the business-to-business dot.com market looks like an even bigger profit-maker.
It started out a business-minded device, and RIM has continued to market it as a business-friendly device, although recent ads have pitched it as a leisure phone for young multitaskers as well.
If nothing else, IDC's material underlines the enormous potential that exists for B2B Net use, the unfashionable business-to-business end of the market where community is less important than efficiency and delivery.
In other words, despite everything the dot-coms did to screw up the business, the e-commerce market is continuing to cook along, meeting all of the most optimistic predictions for explosive growth.
The concept of business-to-business and business-to-consumer video communications has never existed in the enterprise-class video market.
In the U.K., Tesco supermarkets sell everything from groceries to cars to mobile-phone subscriptions in your business, do your go-to-market strategies match the evolving market dynamics your customers are embracing?
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According to Andrew Light of Salomon Smith Barney, an investment bank, it made sense to focus on profitable point-to-point business and full-fare economy traffic, rather than boost market share with transfer passengers flying on cheap tickets.
He quit his job as director of the business-to-business segment at e-commerce software maker Open Market to launch PurchasingCenter, warning his wife to expect lean months with no salary.
Philips is undergo radical changes to accelerate our business to be more Market-Driven (ie Customer focus).
The software-as-service (SaaS) company founded by Omniture co-founder Josh James in 2010 provides real-time access to business data and plays in a highly competitive market anchored by behemoths SAP and Oracle.
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It provides a five-year forecast of cloud services revenue worldwide, split into four business-size segments, four channels to market and eight geographical regions (see Figure 2).
Business Suite on HANA may very well be the only product on the market to feature real-time analytical business applications on one in-memory platform, as IT news site ZDNet noted Thursday.
As we have proven in Japan, we have achieved a v-shaped earnings recovery in the acquired mobile business and grown dramatically by introducing differentiated products to an incumbent-led market.
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The chief executive of one business-to-business (B2B) company, for instance, hired market research firms to gather data about its promoters and detractors.
BYD, the Chinese carmaker backed by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, reported a 94 percent slide in third-quarter net profit due to a slumping domestic market and its money-losing solar energy business.
Nearly everyone I speak to - business leaders, policymakers and financial market folks - is hoping that 2013 is going to be different.
For followers of economics, the modern history of the baseball-card industry offers useful lessons about market responses to profit, anti-trust laws, business failure and inflation.
Few legacy systems or processes means entrepreneurs and organizations have the chance now to re-structure the market and industries to newer business concepts.
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On the other side of the fence, TBG will be led by Senior Vice President (Product Group) Dr. Peter Hortensius to better establish the business-friendly Think brand in the consumer market, as well as continuing to stay ahead of the game in the global commercial business.
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And Socialtext, a long-time thought leader in enterprise social continues to be a leader in bringing new social capabilities to business, particularly in the mid-market.
The suit accused Hillenbrand of using its control of the conventional hospital-bed market to try to take over the faster-growing business of renting sophisticated beds designed to reduce complications such as bedsores and pneumonia.
If you cannot come up with a solid go-to-market strategy, then you should probably not start the business.
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Reminds me of what happened to the TV business when flat panels when from a boom market to low single-digit percentage rate growth.
In November Intrade suffered a severe blow to its business when regulators forced it to suspend all trading in the United States - its biggest market.
Dell has some room to grow in the market it has targeted, feature- rich PCs sold to business customers and sophisticated consumers.
When they were done, you knew their target customers, their business models and their go-to-market strategies.
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