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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. Dan McKinley and Wil Stuckey from the Etsy Curation team here. The Curation Team. " In fact, 3 of the 10 selected companies from the past two years has followed this business model. Tesla is not.

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How Early-Stage Startups Can Utilize the SVB Collapse as a Wake-Up Call

The Startup Magazine

And they probably never will be unless business model viability is reassessed across the board. We didn’t have to change our business model entirely, we just realized what was working and what wasn’t and moved on from there. they still aren’t profitable. And in times like this, give them more.

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Opportunities for startups in the creator economy

VC Cafe

Let’s start with a short definition: [the creator economy] is defined as the class of businesses built by over 50 million independent content creators, curators, and community builders including social media influencers, bloggers, and videographers, plus the software and finance tools designed to help them with growth and monetization.

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