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CXL Live 2022 Recap: Main Takeaways From 6 World-Class Marketers

ConversionXL

This event focused on relationship building and a lot of work was put into building curated groups to have fruitful round table discussions. More networking and curated roundtables, less gurus and swag. The most important factor for differentiation in CXL Live is its unique format. These are the highlights of each one.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Companionship Differentiated value prop vs. generalist chat products – AI companion products hat specialise in content that mainstream models aren’t good at (or don’t allow), like fictional role plays or erotica.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

While the company is not primarily a marketplace, each order is hand-curated by a work-at-home “stylist” who works part-time on their own schedule from the comfort of their own home. They have helped 2,000 substitute teachers get in the classroom in 2018, including 400 educators who earned permits, which Swing willingly financed.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). So it’s not necessarily true, but if you are like another popular group in Chexts is younger people who don’t have a lot of money to manage, but they don’t need financing and all of that stuff. Jason: I agree.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

Solution 2: Use the McKinsey Three Horizons Model to differentiate among the three types. It is a process that operates with speed and urgency, where innovators and stakeholders curate and prioritize their own problems/Challenges/ideas/technology. The Lean Innovation process is a self-regulating, evidence-based innovation pipeline.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

While non bank business financing is currently miniscule by comparison, the numbers from kickstarter.com tell us something is brewing. Residents are collaborating to start, finance and manage public works projects and proving they can bootstrap a better job themselves. It was anti-social in nature. It’s “his” store.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

People price differentiate all the time. That happened in this system, though, because someone wanted to differentiate themselves from the next guy and consumers are paying out of pocket and making a choice. Tell me what it is that shocked you about it, because you’re a guy who … You’re in the business world.