ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

For example, in the United States, freight railroads have a deep moat. So are regulations, which, in some instances, are a cynical moat-digging campaign. Moats built on efficient scale apply to a small number of businesses, like the aforementioned freight rail operators. Dig a deep moat. They own the tracks.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I was running a few business units for a small public company and while I enjoyed the operational side of my job, I was also responsible for M&A and partnerships and had a particular affinity for the transactional side of my job. Do you ever get the entrepreneurial "itch"? They eat, sleep and breathe product.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In the United States alone, we are registering 564,000 new small businesses every single month. That’s 2% of the United States population starting a company at any given time, and that’s just a mind boggling number for me. So they do say a 90 day or a six month campaign to communicate the change, but-.

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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. Dropbox made a great file-sharing product, for instance, but it was their viral marketing campaign that allowed them to cheaply acquire millions of customers. Of course not.

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