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

ConversionXL

An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. For example, in the United States, freight railroads have a deep moat. The company limits costs through a management and distribution structure that serves multiple stores in a geographic area. Dig a deep moat.

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Entrepreneurs, not the government, will save Europe’s economy

The Next Web

Dries Buytaert is the co-founder and CTO and Acquia , a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for open source content management system Drupal. While entrepreneurship and startups have spread tremendously in Europe, a lot of aspiring young entrepreneurs leave Europe for the United States.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. .

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How I Started, Grew & Sold An E-commerce Business For Quarter Million Dollars ($250,000)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

These were the very same products that we are used to purchasing in malls and department stores here in the United States of America. The prices of these bottles in China for example (1.7OZ, 3.3OZ, 4.4OZ, doesn’t matter) were almost a third of the prices we are used to paying in the United States of America.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

It was adopted by the National Science Foundation for commercializing science in the United States. It’s taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and probably another hundred universities and colleges because I open-sourced the class and trained educators on how to teach it. Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc.

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Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

Startup Lessons Learned

Really the decision was made over a period of about two days to just suspend all operations and focus everything on COVID. I, before Curative, worked on a company called Shield that operated a CLIA lab for about two years. Because if you can do a lot of tests in the lab but you can't actually distribute it, there's not much point.

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Out of the Crisis #17: Max Henderson on Covid Act Now, exponential growth, and how to help

Startup Lessons Learned

Max Henderson : distributed around the country and the world. But I mean, even a 1% death rate or a half a percent death rate in the United States is still somewhere between 1.5 And so, if you choose to see this thing as the first successful invasion of the United State by some foreign enemy, then feel free to see it that way.