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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. We are truly grateful for your support. First check to Series A?—?congrats

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These Online Programs Will Make You Rethink How You Can Improve Your Business Skills

crowdSPRING Blog

Here are two good courses you might consider through Coursera: Business Strategy, offered by the University of Virginia. “Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” ” Supply, demand, and market equilibrium. ” Udemy.

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These Online Programs Will Make You Rethink How You Can Improve Your Business Skills

crowdSPRING Blog

Here are two good courses you might consider through Coursera: Business Strategy, offered by the University of Virginia. “Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” ” Supply, demand, and market equilibrium. ” Udemy.

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You'll Figure It Out

aweissman.com

One evening we were doing this, and the conversation turned to the renewal of a content distribution deal with The New York Times, one of AOL's largest and most important partners. The difficult issue here, as with most of these, was whether AOL could demand exclusivity in exchange for distribution. Thus, the deadlock.

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. Usually it’s starvation — can’t get enough customers (distribution) to pay enough money for long enough (product/market fit).

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Unfortunately after twenty years working such demanding jobs I was no longer able to physically do the work. We began by being content-producers focused on serving the 18-24-year-old demographic right after graduation from Virginia Tech. First, we built relationships with 10+ colleges, getting distribution rights to their students.

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year.

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