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My AdExchanger Interview

VC Adventure

I think Boulder is increasingly becoming known as one of the leading start-up cities in the United States (for example, here’s a recent BusinessWeek story naming Boulder the #1 city in the country for start-ups). We’ve all seen the global statistics – August was an unusually strong month for mergers and acquisitions.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

2018 set yet another all-time record for the number of paper books sold in the United States, as has been repeatedly true during the era of Amazon. Dropbox made a great file-sharing product, for instance, but it was their viral marketing campaign that allowed them to cheaply acquire millions of customers. Of course not.

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Economic Moats: Who Has Them? And How Do You Get One?

ConversionXL

For example, in the United States, freight railroads have a deep moat. So are regulations, which, in some instances, are a cynical moat-digging campaign. When geography is the determining factor, efficient scale relies on mergers and acquisitions. Dig a deep moat. They own the tracks.

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Transcript of Creating a Brand Name That Sticks

Duct Tape Marketing

In the United States alone, we are registering 564,000 new small businesses every single month. That’s 2% of the United States population starting a company at any given time, and that’s just a mind boggling number for me. So they do say a 90 day or a six month campaign to communicate the change, but-.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

How do we cut through the news in the disinformation campaign? And even though at least in the United States we never quite made it to the dance, tens of millions of people read them, and it shaped their understanding. Getting clear, unbiased reports has been challenging, even for simple problems. They had plans to this.