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6 Building Blocks Make Amazon A Global Market Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

Every new business dreams of growing from a startup to a global market leader in a few years, like Amazon.com, but that goal is elusive. For example, when delivery costs and delays were still a major online sales hurdle, Amazon Prime membership was invented to offer free next day shipping. The cost of being late is hard to recover.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2019

Hearpreneur

2019 may have been a bad year for some and to others, it was a great year. In the last few days of 2019, we took some time to ask a few entrepreneurs and business what their biggest business accomplishments were. #1- 2019 has been a year of growth for my business! 2019 was full of transformative development for Intellifluence.

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10 Higher Education Trends To Watch For In 2019

YoungUpstarts

There are trends to watch for in 2019 and over the next few years that signal a recalibration of everything we thought we knew. Here are a few trends to watch for in 2019: 1. It spreads out the cost naturally, improves retention, and keeps the information updated and relevant in industries that evolve overnight.

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Airbnb convinced travelers to part with 100% of their booking cost up front and then they pay out the required amount to hosts when the stay actually occurs. The straight cost of revenue line is only ~25% of revenue implying a 75% gross margin, assuming you were looking at this in a simplistic revenue / COGS / gross profit manner.

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Riding The Digital Nomadism Wave In 2019

YoungUpstarts

It’s the 14 th of July, 2019 today. Do you know what was one of the biggest headlines – globally – just a few days ago? All told, globally, there were 18,000 jobs lost. They can stay at a place with a low cost of living, giving them more money to invest into their business. An internet connection for research.

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5 Promising Israeli Startups In 2020

YoungUpstarts

Drivenets is aiming high, with the strategic objective of creating infrastructure for managing a huge portion of global data in the coming decades. By disrupting the Service Provider space, DriveNets effectively offers operators many more solutions to cost effectively scale up and achieve organizational goals.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

We had nascent revenues, ridiculous cost structures and unrealistic valuations. I learned to avoid unnecessary conferences, avoid non-essential costs and strive for at least a neutral EBITDA if for no other reason than nobody was interested in giving us any more money. Until we weren’t. Nobody cared about our valuations any more.

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