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Accelerator Spotlight: Influencer Direct

View from Seed

DC: Short-term: Do-it-yourself (DIY) social media influencers in the United States with 100K+ followers. Long-term: Influencers across the world with 10K+ followers and across all major verticals (e.g. DC: Leveraging the accelerator to refine Influencer Direct’s value proposition, business model, and positioning.

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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

A version of this article appeared in the Harvard Business Review. The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. Today, if you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. There’s the Alfred P.

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Innovation Outposts and The Evolution of Corporate R&D

Steve Blank

In the first 50 years of commerce in the then-new United States, most businesses were general merchants , buying and selling all types of products as exporters, wholesaler, importers, etc. This shift from small businesses to corporations organized by function was the second structural shift in American commerce.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2019

Hearpreneur

With over a decade + experience in three previous entrepreneurial journeys, I learned the hard way that focus and dedication to build expertise in a specific niche is important and is one of the keys to successful agency business. Photo Credit: Matt Daigle. There is so much for me to be proud of in 2019! directly impact the environment.

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15 Entrepreneurs Share What Makes Their Business Unique

Hearpreneur

1 – Business Model. Our business is unique because our business model addresses 2 major shifts in the fashion industry today: 1) the rise of fast fashion and its affect on major more traditional fashion companies like Gap, J. Photo Credit: Stefanie Tacata. crew, Aeropostale, etc.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Betmarkets

Austin Startup

See Betmarkets talk about their business model in the category Innovative World Technology between 5 and 6 pm Saturday, March 14, before a live audience and a panel of expert judges. Attaining $100,000 in monthly recurring revenue and securing a business partner in the United States are major goals.

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SXSW Pitch Finalists: Betmarkets

Austin Startup

See Betmarkets talk about their business model in the category Innovative World Technology between 5 and 6 pm Saturday, March 14, before a live audience and a panel of expert judges. Attaining $100,000 in monthly recurring revenue and securing a business partner in the United States are major goals.