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Opportunities for startups in the creator economy

VC Cafe

She makes money for the platform that hosts her without receiving the legal and financial protections of employee status, or the stock options typically given to the platform’s engineers, designers, and managers. “What the creator economy promises, and what it actually does”, The New Yorker.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Affiliate marketers outsource their content creation (articles, blog posts, ebooks, other written content) in order to focus on their platforms and other aspects of their business. In the example he gave of a group of all business students, he’s right. They will need a developer as part of the team.