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The Economics of Automation & You

Start Up Blog

We also saw it when production line labour was replaced with robotics. Company must then decide where to distribute cost savings – options include; Increase profit margins. Company must then decide where to distribute cost savings – options include; Increase profit margins. Reduce prices and sell more.

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The Care And Feeding Of A Startup

YoungUpstarts

Facts: Many popular startup companies are tech companies because they can create highly specific products quickly and distribute it to a large audience fast, but a startup does not necessarily have to be a technology company. Create a specific product that satisfies the needs of your target market. Start on your good idea.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. A hardware startup had to equip a factory to manufacture the product. But the bubble mantra of get “big fast” and “first mover advantage” demanded tens of millions more to create a “brand.”

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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and client. Since I had good connections with the University, we got a lot of feedback on how the product could be improved to meet their needs. We listened to their feedback and started adding features to the product accordingly. The product worked. Not so fast.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? Interestingly, the company’s founding vision was not a lean idea, but rather a big idea: to accelerate and manage Internet traffic on a global, highly scalable, highly distributed scale.

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Transcript of What Does the Future of Podcasting Look Like?

Duct Tape Marketing

Tom Webster: Yeah, it sprung out of a study that we’ve been doing since 1998, called the Infinite Dial. You look at some of the NPRs of the world that are using a significant distribution. So tell me about the series, the study, and I guess a little bit of the methodology, and why you do it and all that good stuff.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. The conventional wisdom at Fox’s headquarters is that MySpace had “made&# both YouTube & Photobucket by allowing them distribution. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. Now I don’t get any.