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Why Amazon Is the Undisputed E-Commerce Growth Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

From meager beginnings selling books online back in 1994, Amazon is currently the largest e-commerce retailer and cloud computing platform in the world, and now dominates even the giant Walmart. In my role as a business advisor, I’ve long wondered how to pass their secrets along to other new ventures.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. So very few investors want Business Plans any more.

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Stop Bad-mouthing the Millenial Generation and Read the Facts

Up and Running

While there may be generational gaps about fashion or social conventions, millenials are often at the forefront when it comes to technology. For business owners and investors alike, crisis and change create opportunities. Adjusted for inflation, that’s close to double the amount of debt students graduated with in 1994.

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