VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I think Boulder is increasingly becoming known as one of the leading start-up cities in the United States (for example, here’s a recent BusinessWeek story naming Boulder the #1 city in the country for start-ups). We’ve all seen the global statistics – August was an unusually strong month for mergers and acquisitions.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

2018 set yet another all-time record for the number of paper books sold in the United States, as has been repeatedly true during the era of Amazon. The second is distribution —the ability to get product into the hands of customers. If the key to success is achieving critical scale, massive distribution is essential.

Cofounder 28

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. For example, in the United States, freight railroads have a deep moat. The company limits costs through a management and distribution structure that serves multiple stores in a geographic area. Dig a deep moat.

Non-Compete 122

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

How do we cut through the news in the disinformation campaign? And even though at least in the United States we never quite made it to the dance, tens of millions of people read them, and it shaped their understanding. So I think the most interesting aspect of this article is how just mind-blowing that distribution is.

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