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Silicon Valley Will Suffer a Shameful Legacy for Introducing Inequality to the Great Equalizer

Austin Startup

Silicon Valley — another American racist/sexist shithole just like the Segregated South When the Internet first came around in the mid-1990s, it was herald as “The Great Equalizer” where anybody with a keyboard can start an e-commerce shop, publish their works and reach the world to millions who are also attached to the Internet.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. Silicon Valley don’t want you guys to see Joe Louis beat James Braddock because they saw how America quickly celebrated The Brown Bomber.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 17: Tiffani Bell and Clay Hebert

Steve Blank

You must also understand the value the product provides customers (along with the rest of your business model.). Tiffani was also a 2014 Code for America Fellow working with the City of Atlanta. If you’re a technical startup founder, one of the painful lessons is that it’s not enough just to build a great product.

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Learning From Rockefeller

YoungUpstarts

Vertical integration allowed further cost reductions by taking charge of different manufacturing inputs and distribution. This goes somewhat against the grain of modern conventional wisdom, which is to focus solely on what the company does well and outsource the rest.

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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

abovethecrowd.com

The rest of his model is rather straightforward and typical. For most of America, prior to Uber it was impossible to predict how long it would take for a taxi to show up. First, there is the continuing trend of urbanization in America. But more importantly, America’s youth have fallen out of love with the notion of owning a car.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Now the 9th largest economy in the world, it‘s clear that the rest of the world is waking up to the potential in Texas. In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.)

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A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy

abovethecrowd.com

Many Internet marketplaces also have a rake or vig. Before discussing the merits of low rakes versus high rakes, let us first take a look at current examples of different rakes across the Internet. The rest is history. The table above shows estimated rakes for several online businesses as a percentage of GMS.

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