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{UNSEXY}
DESIGN.
technically,

FREEMIUM
but


DESIGN
 really really helped.
KILLING THE COMPETITION
WITH DESIGN-DRIVEN PRODUCTS
(SEXY)
rule #1
rule #1
    STOP OBSESSING
ABOUT THE COMPETITION.
Small Businesses
 Fortune 500
  Non-profits
   Agencies
Small Businesses
 Fortune 500
  Non-profits
   Agencies
Small Businesses
 Fortune 500
  Non-profits
   Agencies
Small Businesses
 Fortune 500
  Non-profits
   Agencies
Small Businesses
 Fortune 500
  Non-profits
   Agencies
“tech-savvy weirdos”
rule #2
rule #2
FIGHT REALLY,
REALLY WEIRD
/rtfm/
3000000




2250000




1500000




750000




     0
      2004-10 2005-05 2005-10 2006-03 2006-08 2007-01 2007-06 2007-11 2008-04 2008-09 2009-02 2009-07 2009-12 2010-05 2010-10 2011-03 2011-08 2012-01 2012-06
3000000




2250000




1500000                                @100k users
                                        Launched
                                        Freemium
                                          (8yrs)
750000




     0
      2004-10 2005-05 2005-10 2006-03 2006-08 2007-01 2007-06 2007-11 2008-04 2008-09 2009-02 2009-07 2009-12 2010-05 2010-10 2011-03 2011-08 2012-01 2012-06
3000000



                                                                         one meellion
                                                                          users (2yrs)
2250000




1500000                                @100k users
                                        Launched
                                        Freemium
                                          (8yrs)
750000




     0
      2004-10 2005-05 2005-10 2006-03 2006-08 2007-01 2007-06 2007-11 2008-04 2008-09 2009-02 2009-07 2009-12 2010-05 2010-10 2011-03 2011-08 2012-01 2012-06
two gorillians
3000000
                                                                                       (10 mo)
                                                                         one meellion
                                                                          users (2yrs)
2250000




1500000                                @100k users
                                        Launched
                                        Freemium
                                          (8yrs)
750000




     0
      2004-10 2005-05 2005-10 2006-03 2006-08 2007-01 2007-06 2007-11 2008-04 2008-09 2009-02 2009-07 2009-12 2010-05 2010-10 2011-03 2011-08 2012-01 2012-06
“Creativity is just
connecting things.”
“Creativity is just
connecting things.”
rule #3
rule #3
ALWAYS. BE.
 CREATING.
   (things)
NO PROJECT
SHOULD TAKE
LONGER THAN
  2 WEEKS.
@benchestnut

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Ben Chestnut, unSEXY Presentation

Hinweis der Redaktion

  1. I’ve got 17 minutes to weird you guys out...\n
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  3. wth? No. But then I remembered...unsexy industry. boring industry. \n
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  9. we’ve been all over the globe\n
  10. now, i can pay two women to sit next to me. how’d we come so far?\n
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  14. so i changed my mind. i’ll come to this unsexy conf and talk about my zen philosophy\n
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  16. i guess she was trying to tell me it’d be a little more sexy?\n
  17. just stop. you’ll never get ahead when you’re copying.\n
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  29. Find your special weirdness. Doesn’t have to be koo-koo cocoapuffs crazy like me, but something weird. \n
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  45. 10k shirts, 2k hats, 1k plushies - 18 minutes. \nEnterprise can’t do shirts. SmallBiz can’t do shirts. \n
  46. Open API (not for small biz, and closed for enterprise)\n
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  54. We couldn’t have done freemium before understanding who our audience was.\n
  55. We couldn’t have done freemium before understanding who our audience was.\n
  56. We couldn’t have done freemium before understanding who our audience was.\n
  57. We couldn’t have done freemium before understanding who our audience was.\n
  58. We couldn’t have done freemium before understanding who our audience was.\n
  59. We couldn’t have done freemium before understanding who our audience was.\n
  60. If we didn’t have a strong sense of identity, all those freemium users would’ve killed us.\n
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  64. If your creative director \n
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  71. “interrupt meetings.”\n
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