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How New Technologies Enabled These Young Entrepreneurs To Threaten The Traditional Retail Landscape

YoungUpstarts

Why are there so many digital commerce companies which can challenge large traditional retailers and even force them into bankruptcy? One of the cofounders explains how he witnessed first-hand while working at a bank that a lot of traditional retailers were in trouble as internet retailers ate away their margins.

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23 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I owned a mortgage company when the mortgage industry crashed and lost almost everything pushing me to the brink of personal bankruptcy. I realized that this was an opportunity to solve a huge problem for an entire generation of parents and their kids using technology. Thanks to Jen Ohlson, Interactive Health Technologies ! #5-

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

This is the time it takes for a bankruptcy or asset sale to occur. I believe that huge financial, productivity and technical gains come from new innovation rather than derivative thinking. He said that data suggests people prefer to “buy high, sell low.&# And so it goes in tech investing. Or a quick flip.

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Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

profitable and companies like Amazon who chose to focus on growth > profitability were not losing money on each book sale (ie they were gross margin positive). Poorly calculated LTVs can become BVs (bankruptcy values). Gross margin positive != The reason one would accept losses is when they are investments in fueling faster growth.

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The Austinpreneur’s Guide to SXSW 2018 Panels & Parties

Austin Startup

The biggest week of the year for tech and startups in Austin, Texas as South by Southwest (SXSW) descends upon the city from March 19–15. Bose will be demonstrating the new technology to app and device developers in a fun, informative setting. There are a zillion things to do, both official and unofficial?—?so Did I miss something?

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? Of course much of it is conflicting. Create scarcity.

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