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Take Advantage of a New Trend: Big Business Looks to Small to Innovate

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A recent Bloomberg BusinessWeek article titled, “ Behemoths Struggling to Innovate Hire Small Companies to Help ,” noted what the author called a “role reversal,” where “a startup takes on a mentoring role to help a large company’s in-house research team develop, test and validate innovations.”. The Bottom Line for Small Businesses.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

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The Social Enterprise Alliance offers this definition: “In its early days, the social enterprise movement was identified mainly with nonprofits that used business models and earned income strategies to pursue their mission. social enterprises, 60 percent were formed after 2006, they just might be onto something.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents.

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10 Mom-and-Pop Businesses That Turned Into Empires

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Despite its success and growth as a partnership, Party Pieces has maintained its family business model and Carole continues to be involved in the sourcing and developing of new party products. Darius Bikoff, who distributed his enhanced drinks to health food stores, independent retailers and mom-and-pop stores in the New York area.

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Brand-Owned Terms: The Power—and Process—of Naming a Movement

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In contrast to “distribution-first content,” movement-first content is a conscious sacrifice of reach: “it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.” HubSpot started in 2006, yet inbound marketing wasn’t mentioned on the homepage or within the “thesis” section of the early website.

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A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy

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A high rake will allow you to achieve larger revenues faster, but it will eventually represent a strategic red flag – a pricing umbrella that can be exploited by others in the ecosystem, perhaps by someone with a more disruptive business model. This is one of my favorite marketplace business model “tweaks.”

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How to Start a Brewery: Growing Your Own Craft Beer Business

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These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. With this money, they plan to expand its distribution to selected metro areas within the state of Oregon. Ninkasi Brewing began in 2006 on a 15-barrel system and produced 1,650 barrels.

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