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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In his 2005 book, The World Is Flat , Thomas Friedman recognizes that the Internet has the ability to create a “level playing field” for all participants, and one where geographic distances become less relevant. These labor matches represent the exact “world is flat” reality outlined in Friedman’s book.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

I asked him to review the TrueCFO project in my Vision India 2020 book. He currently has a 1999 strategy. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.

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30 Entrepreneur Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. Since my co-founders and I haven't agreed on the company name yet, we decided to post in one of the Business Naming Facebook groups that we joined. 9- A merger of two companies.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids”

Austin Startup

In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books. data.world and our modern catalog for data and analysis is a new category of software, much like Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics created new categories before, and the brilliant book Play Bigger helped us find it. I have lived this book?—?both

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. So founders might be tempted to first shoot the arrow and then draw the target around it, by choosing the ‘soft’ metrics that puts them in the best light.

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Customer Development: Past, Present, Future

Steve Blank

Extra credit if you know the back-story of slide 1 and why it’s appropriate for founders and their team. Our startup was venture funded in 1999 and we didn’t pay enough attention to this advice! Butler and Pogue wrote, what I remember at the time, to be a pretty good book with lots of inside info.

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Meet Our Newest Portfolio Company, Airbnb

Ben's Blog

They were joined by a third co-founder, Nathan Blecharczyk, who brought programming expertise. Growth has been flat-out explosive, with over two million room nights already booked. Platforms upon which their community of users continually expands into new verticals. For me, it was a true déjà vu experience.