My two favorites:
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Greg Linden a former Amazon employee who invented the recommendation engine described Amazon’s initial frugality. Linden writes, “the quintessential example of Amazon’s frugality was the door desk. Leave it to Jeff Bezos. Buy a wooden door, preferably a hollow core wooden door with no holes pre-drilled. Saw a couple 4″ x 4″ x 6′ pillars in half. Bolt them to the door with a couple of scary looking angle brackets. Put it in front of a programmer. Door desk.”
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Out of the box thinking.
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Amazon’s unique users are 5x more valuable than eBay’s. Amazon’s average unique user brings in about $189 while eBay’s brings in just $39.
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And it has been reported that the average Prime customer rings in $1200 a year.
(There are 10 million-plus of those.)
Explains a lot of the tooth-gnashing when Amazon is the topic.
http://business.time.com/2013/03/18/...yone-imagined/