Technology

Why Andrew Mason from Groupon got fired – His chart gives us clues

Posted on March 1, 2013, Posted in Business, News, Technology, Uncategorized
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Image: theage.com.auA few days ago Andrew Mason, a founder of Groupon, sent a letter to his employees saying that he is fired from his CEO position at Groupon. You can read more about it in Time.com article.

 

This news didn’t surprise many. Since their initial stellar growth a few years ago Groupon recently failed to grow any further and increase profitability. One of the main criticism of the Groupon business is their failure to use their massive data to target their business more efficiently.

 

Therefor many users were tired of floods of deals which were not personalized enough. The writer of this article having some personal experience working with Groupon and selling vouchers for his local business can definitely confirm this problem.

 

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Yang Water Series – Bill Gates

Posted on December 3, 2012, Posted in Business, Case studies, Technology
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Name: Bill Gates
Profession: Businessman
Birthday: 28. Oct. 1955
Main Element: Yang Water
Zodiac: Wood Goat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After a short break we are continuing with our element series and introducing famous people from each of the ten main elements. We already covered Yang Metal and Yin Metal, and are now introducing some Yang Water celebrities and successful people.

 

We can't start any conversation about Yang Water personalities without mentioning the most powerful Yang Water person of our time, Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft.

 

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Why Apple’s Jony Ive likes to build products out of aluminium

Posted on November 20, 2012, Posted in Technology
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If you follow Apple and the development of Apple products closely you have probably heard of Jony Ive, a genius designer, a very good friend of the late Steve Jobs, who’s work is behind all recent hardwares of Apple, including iPhones and MacBooks.

 

Jony Ive is very much obsessed with using aluminium in all Apple’s products. In the begining it was not so easy to implement, and they had to overcome a lot of technical issues before it became possible to build products such as iPhones and MacBooks which have an unibody alumium frame which is entirely built from one piece of aluminium.
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Yang Earth Series – Mark Zuckerberg

Posted on September 12, 2012, Posted in Business, Case studies, Technology
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Yang Earth people are currently in very lucky period for business and making money. This period lasts from 2004 to 2024. Mark Zuckerberg started his company exactly on beginning of this lucky period, February 2004, and in the year of Yang Wood / Monkey, which is loaded with his favorable elements.

 

Therefore it’s not surprising that Facebook became one of the biggest and most famous companies that emerged in last few years, founded by this extremely strong Yang Earth personality.

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