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Crossing the Chasm

Geoffrey Moore

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

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The classic technology marketing book. Moore was the first to evaluate the role of early adopters.

on bringthedonuts.com · 7 Jan 2026

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If you are in an industry where your current market is early adopters and you're dreaming of reaching mainstream users, this book is a must read. Moore lays out the process of establishing your beachhead and building a complete product solution that meets the needs of the early majority, which is very different than your visionary, early adopters. Of particular note is that the author worked at Regis McKenna, the famed PR firm that helped Apple cross the chasm in the late 70s to early 80s.

on jasonevanish.com · 28 Oct 2020

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.