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Stock Photos vs. Real Photos: Does It Matter?

ConversionXL

You pay, download the stock photo, jury-rig it into your design, and look at your work with a mixed sense of pride and shame. Here’s the problem: Every other poor schmuck in every other vertical has used the exact…same…photograph. Now, not all stock photographs are bad… …just the designers who use them.

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Stock Photography vs. Real Photos: Can’t We Use Both?

ConversionXL

You pay, download the stock photo, jury-rig it into your design & look at your work with a mixed sense of pride & shame. But the client LOVES it! (“See, looks like Stock wasn’t so bad after all, was it Mr. Designer?”). Photograph. But Really, You Should Just Take Your Own Photographs.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

From their website: “We invest via a Shared Earnings Agreement , a new investment model developed transparently with the community, and designed to align us with founders who want to run a profitable business and never be forced to raise follow-on financing or sell their business.” Key elements: . “We

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

JetBlue has had to recreate established models and vertically integrate where the adjacent experiences for the customer and courageous brand to reinvent an entire ecosystem in this way. After starting as a design company, they developed their own product that people loved, and they scaled it so millions of people could use it.

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Finding New Customers In Untapped Places

Duct Tape Marketing

So O X, D X clothing, which is a Navajo, uh, clothing design line opened a new space in Tempe, Arizona, Cahokia, which is a, uh, art tech social space is opening up in Roosevelt road today. Cause a lot of the folks who we had used our space are actually opening their own spaces today that are all native led and run.

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