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Link Blog: Run Away When a VC Wants to ‘Preempt Your Next Round,’ How Barbie Got Made, Air Jordan Fraud, and More

Hunter Walker

In fact, Malekzadeh would simply wait until the shoes he’d presold were released, then purchase them on the open market from retailers such as StockX, according to people familiar with his operation who asked to remain anonymous because the matter is sensitive. Brian Josephs/New York Times] – Save the culture!

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Venture Capital Funding and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove

Up and Running

I don’t know how it operates behind closed doors. A study based out of Babson College via The Diana Project looked at venture capital investments in women between the years 1999 and 2014. I don’t know this world on an intimate, personal level. I have no idea exactly what it takes to get inside that inner circle. That’s the problem.

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10 WAYS TO MAKE YOUR NEW RESTAURANT MORE PROFITABLE IN 2019

Mike Michalowicz

If you are looking to open a New York style Steakhouse serving wealthy baby boomers, find out which part of the city buys the most Cadillacs. If you are stuck for some inspiration, why not spend a week in New York, San Sebastian or London, three of the most Avant Garde food cities. They’ll manage. Accept Reservations.

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Cornerstone OnDemand CEO Adam Miller shares how he built a $2 billion cloud startup from LA

The Next Web

When cloud services company Cornerstone OnDemand got its start in Los Angeles in 1999, the odds were against it. During a keynote at Silicon Beach Fest, Miller shared with the audience three (actually four) ‘P’s to building a successful business that lasts: people, passion, persistence and place.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

When my Japanese husband died at a young age almost 16 years ago, I had been doing medical writing for a major New York Hospital and also helping him with his documentary films for Japanese and American public television. From that life altering event, Ella Bing was born as a family owned and operated business in 2012.

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Live From the StartupBus – Round 2, Part 1 – I got Scobleized – Post #5.

Up and Running

Every seat is taken, so I started pacin’ It’s packed all up in here, up in here , with bus-preneurs from New York, Florida, Chicago, San Fran, and Mexico, plus the “frat house on wheels” known as the Alumni Bus. I answer these same exact same publishing questions every day like it’s 1999. No problem.

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How to Run Effective Online Sweepstakes Campaigns

ConversionXL

For example: in New York one must bond prizes valued above $5000. At the same time most of their target audience was using Facebook already – clearly a lot of room for improvement. Get 3000 new fans from target audience in 3 weeks via a campaign. Have e-mails of 1500 new potential customers.