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Interview with Jesse Katz, Founder of EF Buys

Growthink Blog

I recently had the opportunity to interview Jesse Katz, entrepreneur and founder of www.efbuys.com. We've already offered small business owners discounts on Starbucks, Moo business cards, StumbleUpon Ads, logo design, online computer backup, etc. Here's what he had to say: 1. What is EF Buys? What makes your site different? [To

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Lean Goes Better with Coke – the Future of Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

For most big, established companies like us, our business models were developed years—even decades ago. We’ve built up strength in executing our business model, not creating new ones. It didn’t take us very long to connect the dots between exponential growth, business model innovation and the “Lean Startup” movement.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Harvard professor Noam Wasserman and WSJ small-business editor Vanessa OConnell took reader questions about avoiding start-up pitfalls on Sept. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Languishing businesses were counted as survivors. More in Small Business. Replay the event. the previous year.

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Exploring The Everyday: Janji Wants You To Change The World By Running

View from Seed

I sat down with David Spandorfer , co-founder of Janji , a running apparel company, to talk about the intersection of an everyday need, water, and an act of physical activity that almost everyone can do, running. Talk me through the inception of Janji and the basis for your business model.

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6/16: What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

David Teten

Until recently, most Internet innovation has centered around improvements — big improvements, but incremental ones nonetheless — to existing business models and familiar social structures: Amazon is the ultimate retail destination, Zipcar the ubiquitous rental-car agency; Meetup is a sewing circle on steroids.

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