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Shopify Guide — Here’s How to Become an Expert

ReadWriteStart

Whether it’s marketing yourself as an expert, writing Shopify-specific content, or partnering with other Shopify Partners, fitting into the Shopify Partners and Ecosystem is one of the crucial steps. The Shopify Experts marketplace operates with the Shopify Partner program — the actual site and community management system.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

Both Sides of the Table

When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products. These aren’t “sample sizes” but rather full experiences for women who trust FabFitFun to curate for them.

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Thoughts on curated marketplaces and perfect competition

The Equity Kicker

Jeff Jordan , now a partner at Andressen Horowitz, and previously CEO of OpenTable and senior exec at Paypal and eBay, has a post up on the A16Z blog about online marketplaces. Another example is Lexoo , one of our portfolio companies. I agree with Jeff, but only about half the time.

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Evolving “openness” at marketplaces

The Equity Kicker

Marketplaces are a type of platform in which Forward Partners routinely makes investments. They make up around one third of our portfolio. We love these companies because (done right) they are better for the supply side and the demand side and because at scale they exhibit significant network effects which make them very valuable.

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The Innovation Insurgency Scales – Hacking For Defense (H4D)

Steve Blank

The results: 13 Universities will offer the course in the next year, government sponsors committed to keep sending hard problems to the course, the Department of Defense is expanding their use of H4D to include a classified version, and corporate partners are expanding their efforts to support the course and to create their own internal H4D courses.

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Bolster’s Founding Manifesto

OnlyOnce

Welcome to Bolster, the on-demand executive talent marketplace. The number of career executives who work flexibly and on-demand for a living is skyrocketing in recent years. Bolster your portfolio. For now, we are excited to soft launch Bolster and begin unleashing the power of on-demand executive talent to our Clients.

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Bolster’s Founding Manifesto

OnlyOnce

Welcome to Bolster, the on-demand executive talent marketplace. The number of career executives who work flexibly and on-demand for a living is skyrocketing in recent years. Bolster your portfolio. For now, we are excited to soft launch Bolster and begin unleashing the power of on-demand executive talent to our Clients.