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Research-Backed Strategies to Boost Your Gym’s Revenue

Up and Running

To help you out, we’ve hacked our way through the forest of general (and generic) ideas to find you only those strategies that have been proven to boost revenue. In fact, according to a 2001 study by the Fitness Industry Association, the more often people attend initially, the lower the reduction in attendance.

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What I *Would Have* Said at TechCrunch Disrupt

Both Sides of the Table

You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. These days that’s not the case and it’s a great outcome for entrepreneurs and for innovation. .&# Either you’re an angel or you manage professional funds. We all know that.

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

My co-founder and other management team members wanted us to hold off and see whether we could get the deal done at a higher price. I lived through this again September 2001. If it’s a biz deal you might care about IP protection, revenue share, investment commitments to joint marketing – whatever. I was resolute.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Founded by Michael Bruno in Paris in 2001, 1stdibs (*) is the world’s largest online marketplace for luxury one-of-a-kind antiques, high-end modern furniture, vintage fashion, jewelry, and fine art. In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

We managed to create a single software that is so powerful that we can optimize any business whether it is manufacturing, retail, transportation, oil and gas, metals or anything else. My idea was that during market downturns, people need to invest in marketing and reputation management because that’s when marketing matters most.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 Build a true, peer-to-peer management culture. It also helps weed out the weak links without much management interference. It also turns us into micro-managers. STARTING IT UP. These are not stratagems.

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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

Ben's Blog

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 44% 2001-2019 13.7% IPO market. double the rate of the prior year, 103 of those being venture-backed companies. Time Period IPO Pop* 1980-1989 6.1%

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