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Ecommerce: How to Survive its Troughs

ReadWriteStart

On the topic of ecommerce, one wonders to what extent this business model is applicable, and where is it likely to end? This is the prime question that goes through most online retailers, entrepreneurs today. It’s the extent of this phenomenon that has resulted in soaring businesses across the world.

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Leadership and CEO Succession

Reid Hoffman

Recently, Jeff Bezos announced that he would be stepping down as CEO of Amazon, the iconic blitzscaling company that he has led since 1994 – nearly 27 years. This can serve as a guiding light to other entrepreneurs and CEOs. That’s a statement of business innovation, not technological innovation. I helped establish the network.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

By 1994 the big software wins of the 1980’s were already funded or public.” There are five key risks in any deal: Market, Product (a/k/a technology), Management, Business Model, and Capital. Most losses happen when you combine Market and Product risk – take one, not both, and take it with a proven entrepreneur.

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10 CEOs Who Made Huge Mistakes

Up and Running

It’s true that no one is perfect, and this shows itself in the business world as much as it does anywhere else. While entrepreneurs strive to do their best, mistakes are sometimes unavoidable. However, one area where he fell short was in ignoring the search engine market. What can you learn from their mistakes?

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The Afro-Tech operates on a basis of permissionless innovation — we do not need pre-approval to be black and innovative in tech and as for me, I been doing advanced and epic Internet tech stuff since 1994 so I’m not exactly someone that is easily impressed by an “ex-Google engineer” like the rest of yall, just saying.

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Silicon Beach emerges as a tech hotbed

www.usatoday.com

After years of the San Francisco Bay Area dominating the tech start-up scene, with huge smashes such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, entrepreneurs are finding they can go elsewhere to grow and prosper. It takes awhile for the financial people to catch up with the entrepreneurs." Want 300 days of sun a year?" Google says.

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10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

The Next Web

Up until today, I consider all four a must-read for any entrepreneur or anyone looking into entrepreneurship. Back in 1994, when Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he had to raise money from 22(!) Especially because I could have used this time on marketing, sales and customer development, and actually helped our business move forward.