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Entrepreneurs Bring Propriety Software to Influencer Marketing

Hearpreneur

May 2014 – InstaElite gets accepted to Ryerson University’s DMZ incubator (#1 in North America). Whether you’re trying something new or planning to attack a more saturated vertical like beauty or fashion, if you don’t love what you’re doing, you’ll lose your motivation to keep creating.

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A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy

abovethecrowd.com

eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ). These reasons are likely behind the struggles in GroupOn’s core Daily Deals business ( North America Third Party Revenue is down in Q4 both YOY and QOQ ).

Europe 101
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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

It’s like arguing against vertical software. But maybe.Net, too, has the potential to grow beyond itself and beyond the reputation of its coders. I really think the only thing you accomplished here is alienating an entire community and damaging your reputation. March 26, 2011 at 9:02 am. March 26, 2011 at 9:18 pm.

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

abovethecrowd.com

I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. It’s super complex, the way people get paid, the way people make decisions, and completely different from every other industry in North America. Bill Gurley : Great.