So, no one was really excited to build the product or build the tool and they weren't consumers of the tool.
所以,没人真正为造出产品或工具而感到兴奋,因为他们不是这个工具的消费者。
So the cost of the product will be higher for them, for you know, for any product that uses advertising
所以他们的产品价格就会更高,你知道,任何打广告的产品。
And the only way that you can get it to work is to rent the software from them. You can't actually buy, you have to rent it from there.
顾客使用这产品的唯一办法就是,向他们租软件,不能买,只能租借。
For two years they had no product on the market whatsoever.
两年来他们没有任何产品,进入市场。
Part two was that they had to design a new product service that Merrill Lynch never offered before.
其次是他们要设计一种,美林未推出的新产品。
For example, Frito-Lay, before they really had to because of bad publicity, took out all of the Trans fats in their products and that was -they're the largest snack manufacturer in the world so that was a pretty significant advance for the healthiness of their foods.
例如,菲多利,为免受到舆论谴责,他们在政策发布前,就已剔除了其所有产品中的反式脂肪,他们是世界上最大的零食生产厂商,这对他们产品的健康程度也是一大提升
Banks respond to these pressures by coming up with all kinds of creative instruments, re giving permissions to take..
银行迫于压力,开发了,多重创新金融产品,政府允许他们,they’
to put in place policies that incentivizes people to use things such as energy efficiency
他们制定了一些政策,鼓励人们使用能效高的产品,
What's now the most efficient use of people's time, like how can people maybe be working on stuff not serially but I didn't say someone's working on launching a high school product on the photos and someone else is working on the thing every launch next to each, you know.
才能达到最高的工作效率,也许可以摒弃,连续工作的模式,我并不是说,他们是在开发一个小儿科的产品,有人负责建立相册,有人负责,下周要开启的项目。
So they have most of the stuff in food, in clothes, in everything.
所以他们有大部分的产品。有吃的、穿的,全部都有。
But they give organic produce for extremely high quality organic produce.
但他们用劳动换取高品质的有机产品。
And last year to did we hand students Google maps, Google news, asked them to mash those two very familiar real world products together so that they had a map of the United States, little markers sprinkled throughout, that indicated exactly where there were current events going on.
去年我们给学生提供了谷歌地图和谷歌新闻,要求他们把这两个熟悉的实时世界,产品结合到一起,这样他们就有了一个美国地图,上面到处都是一些小图标,它们能够精确地标记出,当前事件发生的地方。
So it's a tough economy and you'd say, "Well geez, I want to do a startup. Is there going to be an investment out there? Well geez, I want to sell to customers and they're going to need to buy equipment to do things, or geez I want to appeal to advertisers, and there's got to be a consumer demand out there."
因此经济愈发不景气,你们会说“天哪,我想要卷土重来,会有人给我投资吗?,我想向人们出售产品,他们会需要买些设备来做事的,哦天哪,我想向广告商招标,总会有消费者需求的“
Putting goods online allows them to reach a greater market,
把产品放在网上可以让他们接触到更大的市场,
They're using the Chinese to do big production with that,
他们利用中国人生产大量产品,
for produce and for locally grown organic products.
他们会购买农产品和本地栽种的有机产品。
Their families were users of the product.
他们的家人也是这个产品的用户。
So they're not focused on the products that are coming out later this year, or even next year.
他们不关注,今年或明年要推出的新产品。
And we had investors who were coming to us who were already users of the product.
我们有慕名而来的投资者,他们已经是这个产品的用户了。
When you're pitching someone, the best thing you can do is show them something that works.
当你向别人推荐产品的时候,最好的办法就是,向他们展示好用的东西。
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