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What Would Happen if you Built the Reverse of Amazon? It Might Look Something Like This …

Both Sides of the Table

The first is that it could carry limited inventory in stock because it had limited physical shelf space. But while Amazon blew away existing physical distribution channels to deliver products to you, we are blowing away existing physical infrastructure to help you store the things you want to keep – just not at your home.

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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

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Things like “ participating preferred stock &# in legalese unsurprisingly never actually call out, “hey, this is the participating preferred language.&# We got a3x participating liquidation preference with interest (not participating with a 3x cap, but 3x participating. 4 * $4 million) and not $4 million.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

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Within a year WAP became the laughing stock of the mobile industry. It’s taking time to finish the product because you’re super expensive iPhone developers (they’re in high demand) are not as good as you like (they’re super high in demand). But you need to think in terms of broader distribution.

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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. Meanwhile, inventory was piling up, the stock was cratering, and the company was running out of cash.

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The Future Of Retail And America In The Post-COVID World

YoungUpstarts

After several months of being forced to shop differently, we believe consumers will demand a combination of speed, value and convenience moving forward. Speed equals immediacy AND certainty of delivery (in stock): Consumers want same day or next day delivery more than ever before.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65

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In Q4 2022, founders face tough choices

VC Cafe

This is largely due to several major stock market crashes and global economic uncertainties. Venture-capital firms are jumping into the stock market, buying up battered shares in publicly traded tech companies at a time when they are investing less in the startups that have long been their focus.

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