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Seven Things Your Customers Can Do Better Than You

YoungUpstarts

You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to say good things about your company — in a quest to get even more customers. In return, the customers pay you money.

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“Coming for the Content, Staying for the Community” Started With Video Games (Or Maybe Religion?) But Will Define Media This Decade

Hunter Walker

Then my time working on AdSense and YouTube for nearly a decade gave me other vantage points from which to see where eyeballs and dollars traveled in media. The “absolutely yes” category was dominated by creators who had branched beyond their initial piece of content and created some persistent space for the community to aggregate.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. aggregates resources from all the VCs.

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Smart glasses, 3D content and the ‘iPhone moment’ for AR

VC Cafe

There’s no doubt about the potential of Augmented Reality (AR) and mixed reality (XR) and the role they play in advertising, social media, commerce, gaming etc. Like Meta, Snap has a booming developer community who uses Snap Lens Studioo to build AR social filters: Over 250,000 developers have published a total of 2.5

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Four Tips For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

That’s because, thanks to the increasing use of interactive media and advanced data collection techniques, it’s more possible than ever before to gather meaningful data and use it to make business decisions. Create a Winning Organizational Culture. HR executives are fond of saying that a company’s most important asset is its people.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. For established media empires, this is a scary fact.

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Crisis versus Opportunity: 6 Ways to Bootstrap a Startup in a Post-COVID-19 World While Navigating the New Normal

ReadWriteStart

Let’s assume, for this article, that you are a part-time social media expert. Consequently, you’ve decided to utilize this passion and expertise to collect and aggregate social media data from some of the popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, CrunchBase, and LinkedIn.