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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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I first met Ethan in 2005. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. The company was called Red Beacon.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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In the early days of every business the incumbents tend not to respond because you’re too small and insignificant. As they see you grow the become intrigued and probably analyze your business model and potential. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. Choose that market. Microeconomics.

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