abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 2018, Taobao GMV (Gross Merchandise Value) was a staggering RMB2,689 billion, which equates to $428 billion in US dollars.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

It’s only our second year on the market and our biggest accomplishment of the year is launching the deluxe version of our LUCKY Life Planner 2018. We’re very new to the industry, and while we’re passionate about the product, there have been obstacles every step of the way – production, shipping, distribution, etc.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

In 2018, there were more than 7,450 breweries in the U.S.—well These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. With this money, they plan to expand its distribution to selected metro areas within the state of Oregon.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The market for our product was global, and we had unique advantages in terms of our product and how we distributed it to customers. A warm introduction from a mutual connection is always the best way to meet an investor, which is why it pays to build bridges and expand your network as an entrepreneur.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 2, 2019

We’re proud to say that we wrote a blog post every week in 2018 – and we’ve done that now for the past three years. In case you didn’t catch each and every post, here’s a look back at some of our favourite and most read pieces from 2018. Changing the narrative on distributed teams in Silicon Valley”. Running a Startup.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Some businesses can service all four cities with a single distribution hub in one of the cities, making it a unique market for launching new businesses. This number will double by the end of 2018 as we invite new mentors from Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Successful startups aren’t based in just one city. Most likely in Texas.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 31, 2022

More About The Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here. They said that they've got, you know, a hundred employees and they're distributed now and this just, they do a podcast that is purely an internal vehicle communication vehicle. Like right now you see like the big ones, like wander is a big network that does this.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2018

After several years since the existence of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, entrepreneurs are seeing the benefits of adopting blockchain technology in their dealings this 2018, as the use of cryptocurrency can give entrepreneurs advantages in their chosen business. If you bought 100 Ethereum, you would be enjoying $2 million in 2018.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. Before their launch in 2018, Woodhead faced a challenge. His computer network crashed from so much demand from people attempting to sign up. Image source ).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Taken together these “mega rounds” represent nearly half of the funding in 2018. Yes, distributions to LPs have been pushed out a few years but the value capture in privates by the best VC firms (and best LPs) has been enormous. If you fast forward one generation of tech companies it’s a completely different story. trillion in value.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

She is a member of the Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network, a Fortune Most Powerful Women attendee, and has received numerous accolades, including being chosen as a Sam Walton Emerging Entrepreneur and American Express. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

They’re looking for guidance on building the company, the ability to tap into a VC’s network, and help with potential business opportunities. We followed that closely and ultimately made the decision in early 2018 that there was enough of a market opportunity there to raise a dedicated fund to this effort.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 5, 2018 SXSW has announced 50 finalists for the SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event. What does Pawame hope to accomplish in 2018? What kinds of people is your team looking to meet at SXSW 2018? Every event allows us to reach new people, expand our network and hone our message further. In the U.S.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Since I am a techie at heart, I always get excited when founders pitch their new innovation as “disruptive,” meaning that it is so unique that it will create a new market and disrupt the existing value network, displacing established products and markets. Marty Zwilling First published on CayenneConsulting on 10/25/2018.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Narrow Networks — Narrow networks are an interesting response to the above market prices that the large hospitals and groups are pushing on the broader market. Obviously, if narrow networks increase in popularity, more and more market share shifts to providers that are willing to respond to competitive market-based price demands.

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Board Effect

JUNE 21, 2019

According to a survey by Willis Towers Watson in 2018, two-thirds of employers in the nonprofit sector are concerned about the loss of talent as Baby Boomers retire. If a specific medical credential or professional certification is required, consider how such people network and what they read, then target your outreach toward them.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

As we said in our look at web trends of 2018 : A dated or poor looking website design can make even the best businesses appear non-professional and unreliable. We found there were nine key trends in 2018 for website design, including 80s-influenced design , clean and bold typography , unusual color combinations , and full-screen backgrounds.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2019

Rubix.io , founded in 2018 by CEO Andrew Hamilton, is a streamlined cryptocurrency exchange platform that focuses on making the process of buying, selling, trading, and storing cryptocurrency simple and easy to understand. Source: Pixabay. What are the most promising crypto and blockchain startups of 2019, though?

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VC Adventure

APRIL 27, 2020

Specifically, the number of women-owned businesses has increased 31 times between 1972 and 2018 (in 1972, women-owned businesses accounted for just 4.6% of all firms; in 2018 that figure was 40%), according to the Kauffman Foundation. I’d appreciate you sharing this with your networks to get the word out.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2012 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2013; Slack in 2014 (after prematurely saying there wasn’t one); took a break in 2015-16, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; in 2017 it was Coinbase ; and last year, 2018, it was Airtable. It can save time.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

says Ramaswamy, who joined Greylock in 2018 following 15 years at Google, where he ran the company’s massive advertising business. It’s a massive distribution advantage. It’s part of the reason why people like network effects as a way of doing this. In the case of Facebook and Twitter, and LinkedIn, they reach a lot of users.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

says Ramaswamy, who joined Greylock in 2018 following 15 years at Google, where he ran the company’s massive advertising business. It’s a massive distribution advantage. It’s part of the reason why people like network effects as a way of doing this. In the case of Facebook and Twitter, and LinkedIn, they reach a lot of users.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 24, 2018

We are excited to have invested in one network, Figure 1 , which appears to have found the rare seam where a network can flourish with minimal permission and no system-level integrations.”. We have realized that in most cases, bottoms-up distribution or the “consumerization” of software in healthcare has its limits.

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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. Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. It’s a great business.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

trillion by 2018 [3] as major demographic and technological trends drive future growth. Aging populations are a fact of life for all major economies, with over 65’s expected to reach 580 million by 2018 [4]. For instance, we are working with one customer on the faster distribution of clinical kits from Singapore to hospitals in China.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 16, 2020

Overlapping with these businesses are the 57 million Americans who freelanced in 2018 (what’s popularly termed the gig economy), according to the Upwork: Freelancing in America Survey. The number of women-owned businesses increased 31 times between 1972 and 2018, according to the Kauffman Foundation. If you include the 24.8

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 20, 2018

The General Protection Regulation introduced new measures to secure online data across the EU in May 2018. The EU’s Data Protection Regulation – GDPR – has been set up to better control the way personal data is stored and distributed online. by Emily Cocker, Senior Digital Strategist at London SEO Agency. What is GDPR?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

The 2018 edition of CXL Live brought together 400 practitioners from 22 countries and everyone was “locked in” at a beautiful resort for a full three days. Julian Gaviria (@juliangav) March 30, 2018. Stefan Koenig (@koenigst) March 30, 2018. — Tom van den Berg (@TomvdBerg1) March 28, 2018. And we’re off!

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 20, 2015

We’re investing in decentralization as a theme – including new infrastructure models that are emerging (such as the blockchain and wireless mesh networks) as well as smart data applications that can utilize this new infrastructure. Towards the end of the 20th century, we began to see movement towards more distributed networks.

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Up and Running

JULY 22, 2019

For instance, the 2019 TSX Venture 50 companies—which are all growth-stage companies accessing investors on TSX Venture Exchange—reported increasing their employee count by roughly 2,200 people in 2018, representing an average hiring growth of 307 percent. This would not have been possible without the support of their investors.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 11, 2020

That potential continues to attract more B2B marketers, with 66% active on Instagram in 2019, up from 57% in 2018. SEMrush has also quoted and tagged other well-known marketers in their Instagram feed to inspire followers get some distribution support: ( Image source ). Will Instagram soon be a primary channel for most B2B companies?

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 20, 2015

At FuturePerfect Ventures, we’re investing in decentralization as a theme – including new infrastructure models that are emerging (such as the blockchain and wireless mesh networks) as well as smart data applications that can utilize this new infrastructure. Interconnected hub and spoke models began to replace top-down structures.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

TechCrunch’s Kate Clark has done a round-up of the largest “private VC” rounds of 2018, and there’s a whole other list for just $100M+ financings led by Softbank’s Vision Fund. Money has been coming into the U.S. and the Bay Area specifically at a rapid rate.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 10, 2016

billion by 2018 (Goldman Sachs). Leon Ng , President of LNG Studios , an award winning architectural and real estate 3D visualization studio and founder of North America’s largest Real Estate Television Network. billion this year, and then more than doubling to $8.5

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 14, 2018 From all around the world, 50 diverse startups will come together to compete at the 2018 SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event on March 10 and 11. The idea is to create a network of devices, so communities can work together to snuff out a threat. What does GoTech hope to achieve in 2018?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

San Antonio has Geekdom with USAA and Port San Antonio with the Air Force Cyber Command; Houston has The Ion with Rice University, Microsoft and NASA and The Cannon distributed across the city; Dallas has Pegasus Park with UT Southwestern and Lyda Hill Philanthropies; and Austin has Capital Factory with the Army Futures Command.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 19, 2018

An excerpt below: Distributed ledger technology (DLT) can be used to speed up information-sharing between market participants and regulators. Lastly, while cryptocurrency prices remained volatile over the past week, underlying blockchain infrastructure continued to make strides, with the Lightning network entering the Bitcoin mainnet.

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