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His customers proved him right.
Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Sun Microsystems and other companies scrambled to mimic the products as customers proved increasingly willing to pay more for the blades than standard servers.
A flat, hourly rate that covers gas and insurance for customers proved to be alluring: the service now has more than 760,000 members, with locations in 20 metropolitan areas in the United States, Canada and Europe, as well as on many college campuses.
But Chrysler also made mistakes before the sale to Daimler, notably by expanding its work force and investing heavily in more expensive engines for which customers proved reluctant to pay extra.
The company has come in for stiff competition from fast-food chains such as McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts, which have upgraded their coffee offerings, while cash-strapped customers proved reluctant to pay premium prices at the height of the global financial crisis.
Luckily, and to my big relief, when we'd finally launched our product, getting customers proved to be rather easy once we started chasing them.
While the moves were driven by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, the company's communication with its customers proved to be the company's real downfall.
Changing the cost/value proposition was key, since Apple's iPhone is often much more expensive in India than it is elsewhere in the world, and actually getting it to customers proved very difficult using Apple's previous distribution channels.
