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Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups 

ReadWriteStart

The reality is, most 20-somethings that start businesses lack the operational, managerial, sales and financial expertise to scale anything. Spend your time on businesses that have budgets and the ability to feed your own operations into growth mode. Without demand, startups falter and ultimately fail. Most Startups Are Poorly Managed.

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Why Partnerships Are The Future Of Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

So yeah, I, there there's some confusion around these terms, partner, marketing partnership, marketing affiliate market, and you have influencer and B2B. So I just consider affiliate marketing, part of this greater ecosystem of partnership marketing now, which includes influencer and B2B and aspects of business development.

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Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups 

ReadWriteStart

Most Startups Are Poorly Managed The reality is, most 20-somethings that start businesses lack the operational, managerial, sales and financial expertise to scale anything. Spend your time on businesses that have budgets and the ability to feed your own operations into growth mode. Without demand, startups falter and ultimately fail.

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Hologram: Everyday IoT Reaches Scale

View from Seed

Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

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Can you build “Silicon Valley” companies outside of the Valley?

Version One Ventures

Can upstart ecosystems in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, or Seattle churn out tomorrow’s billion dollar tech companies? It’s relatively easy for a company to scale to 20-25 employees in Seattle, but when a start-up is ready to find its first VP of Sales or Marketing, it often needs to look beyond the local area.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market.

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Hologram: Everyday IoT Reaches Scale

View from Seed

Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

Chicago 156