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The Power of Torso TV (Why Media is Racing to the Middle)

Both Sides of the Table

When you have limited distribution, the costs of distributing media are so prohibitive that only the largest of media producers (and distributors) are relevant. That couldn’t happen without the advent of lower cost production & distribution. This was how companies who produced media became big before the Internet.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

His name is Tomas Pueyo. So I think the most interesting aspect of this article is how just mind-blowing that distribution is. If you then looked at different areas in the world, at the time in South Korea, it was 0.6%. What did South Korea do? He was not a famous author. He wasn't a media star.

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Entrepreneurial Journey Takes Melvin Brewing To Denver’s Heights and Beyond

The Startup Magazine

Jeremy’s entrepreneurial journey has led Melvin Brewing to recently be named the Brewmaster and Brewery Group of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival. The brewery has experienced a high level of success in the regional market, with a wide distribution in Wyoming and a satellite brewpub in Bellingham, Washington.

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Big Tech’s Competitor? Government

Andrew Payne

I’ve always felt my “best” Hacker News comments are the ones most down voted , like this nugget from about a year ago: (From: “ Zuckerberg struggles to name a single Facebook competitor “). They rewrote the rules for channels and distribution, creating new livelihoods for countless authors and small businesses.

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New Web Order - Finding a Technical Co-Founder

nikcub.appspot.com

instead of doing a GroupOn clone in South Korea, how about contacting GroupOn and asking if you can franchise? See my recent post here about naming a product or company. Once you have put in the effort and found a potential technical co-founder, be generous with equity distribution. just an example)).

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Transcript of How Ultralearning Helps You Master New Skills

Duct Tape Marketing

John Jantsch: Let’s get your definition of ultralearning since that’s the name of the book. What’s happening is that the incomes are being stretched out at the top of the distribution and they’re being compressed at the bottom. Scott, thanks for joining us. Scott Young: Yeah, thanks for having me here.

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

My name is Eric Ries. Sal Khan : My name is Sal Khan. Sal Khan : If you go back to mid-February, it sounds like the world was very different then, but it was in mid-February that we started seeing traffic pickup in China and South Korea. Overnight, we became a nation of homeschoolers. Here's my conversation with Sal Khan.