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The Intellectual Social Network

Start Up Blog

Their shipping costs will eat up any money they save. To make you feel richer, we’ll make them green. Tesla – instead of just building batteries and selling them to Detroit, we are going to build our own cars from scratch plus own the distribution network. Virgin Atlantic – airlines are cool.

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New Markets Mean More Than Just New Area Codes

YoungUpstarts

Despite the interconnected nature of our nation’s economy, there are still good places to be and bad places to be when it comes to jobs, the cost of living, and markets. The Great Plains energy boom is generating millions in income, while Detroit continues to crumble into oblivion. How’s the L.A. market for snow boots?

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How to Start a Bed and Breakfast

Up and Running

Without the green light from the zoning commission, you will not be able to move forward. There may have been a time when opening a B&B in the greater Detroit area may have been successful; however, given the economic hardships that area has been facing in the last 10-15 years, it hardly seems like a solid business venture now.

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How to Expand Your Cannabis Business Across State Lines

Up and Running

For the first time ever, you’ll order up an 1/8th of Gelato by Cookies, in Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, or even Detroit, and it’ll actually be the very same fire you fell in love with back in Cali. . It’s more cost-effective than starting from scratch looking for a building of your own to rent and than spend $100/foot or more improving. .

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

You can't go to Spirit Rock or Green College. New York, of course, being one of the epicenters for the pandemic in our country, but other cities being hit very hard, New Orleans and Detroit, and what's happening in Mississippi right now. And we at the time made it $1,000 because that was around the cost of serving one of those units.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

That meant of course initially raising money and cutting costs. We have to manage our stakeholders, raise money, diversify our business, and cut costs." Every single meeting I had I started with, we're here today because we have to manage the stakeholders, we have to raise money, we have to diversify our business and cut costs.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it. Also if one has a portal that is massive in ideas such as Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube combined like my own without third party back ends it cost a pretty penny to build a custom one if one did not know about clones etc. All what you said is so true.