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It’s all in the Details
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I went to this great Vietnamese fusion restaurant for business 2 weeks ago and something occurred to me in the bathroom. It is all about the details. In many restaurants fancy or not there is so much emphasis on the menu, atmosphere, employees and other things.
What about the bathroom? It is something that everyone of your guests will use but are you paying attention? I know this is small but is something that people notice and take away with your ‘brand.’
On my second day of Facebook, Mark pointed out that we were missing a space on a non-important page and that it needed to be fixed promptly. I was shocked that the CEO of the company paid so much attention to the details and how important it was for things to look right for the students. This was a very important point for me at the start-up, realizing that he cared about the image of not being sloppy and not having improper things on our site.
I have learned a lot from working at Facebook and pay more attention to even my spelling on Okdork. All of what you do is a reflection of yourself or your business. Are you paying attention?
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Noah Kagan wrote It’s all in the Details on May 8th, 2006 and there are 9 comments. There will be one more after you add yours, though. Read more posts by Noah Kagan.
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9 Responses to “It’s all in the Details”
May 8th, 2006
2:38 am
It’s wonderful to hear this story, it is the type of attitude that can help startups maintain an edge over the “endups” - Its nice to know that someone is paying attention…
May 8th, 2006
10:24 am
This is one of the things that I tried to get through Tom’s head while I was at MySpace. If you look like you don’t care about the little things, eventually that attitude is going to permeate through the rest of the organization and eventually it’ll end up affecting the users as well.
May 9th, 2006
3:21 am
How could a CEO not look at that? To be a good employee or CEO you should be one of your most passionate consumers. You should be using your product everyday. If you are not passionate about your product, then you should move on to company where you are.
And we all know Noah is very passionate about Facebook.
May 9th, 2006
4:48 am
noah. i miss u.
have u ever watched the apprentice?
one of the episodes in season one is titled… “it’s all in the details”
do u like trump? who are ur buisness heroes…
do u think u can learn buisness lessons from watching a wide audience targeted reality tv show?
did u know that 2-heptanone smells like banana? and that it is a tautomer?
May 9th, 2006
9:43 am
Yep, I agree. In business the margin for error is so small. My father once told me of an assistant who turned in a proposal 5 minutes late but the company declined to take it. The proposal was for a project worth over $500,000 and the entire team pulled an all night to finish it in the morning…
May 9th, 2006
7:07 pm
what restaurant did you go to? Tamarind? Remember the letter I wrote you before your trip to Thailand? Details…
May 9th, 2006
8:31 pm
Despite spelling mistakes, you still have a lot to do in terms of cleaning up your grammar and punctuation. Just a friendly tip
May 9th, 2006
11:22 pm
I’m an auditor, and all we do is look at the detail. But as important as details are, it’s also important to be efficient and keep things moving. If the details take too much time, effort, or money, it’s not worth it.
November 27th, 2007
10:34 am
…and as one can see now, all that detail care has paid off.
Nicely.
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