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These Online Programs Will Make You Rethink How You Can Improve Your Business Skills

crowdSPRING Blog

Coursera is one of the biggest online educators with over 20 million registered users and 150 education partners which include universities from all over the world. “Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” ” Udemy.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k. Meebo gained traction because there’s was viral component when users wanted to tell their friend. Why do you love speaking to students at universities?

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These Online Programs Will Make You Rethink How You Can Improve Your Business Skills

crowdSPRING Blog

Coursera is one of the biggest online educators with over 20 million registered users and 150 education partners which include universities from all over the world. “Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” ” Udemy.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. Plenty of headroom there!