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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Tony Saldanha (P&G Next Gen Svces, Transformant), Farhan Shah (Allstate, CTO, Head of Platform Eng), Munu Gandhi (VP Infrastructure, AON), Virginia Lyons (CISO, Williams Sonoma) and GTM advisors?—?Natalie New CXO advisors join?—? Natalie Diggins (Neustar, ex-VP Cloud Platform/DevOps), Francesca Krihely (MongoDB, Dir.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. with many more states pending legislation.

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Usually it’s starvation — can’t get enough customers (distribution) to pay enough money for long enough (product/market fit). What if all availability zones of Amazon in Virginia are disabled for a week? Risk-mitigation. For a small company, the most likely cause of death is suicide.

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These Online Programs Will Make You Rethink How You Can Improve Your Business Skills

crowdSPRING Blog

Here are two good courses you might consider through Coursera: Business Strategy, offered by the University of Virginia. “Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” ” Digital Marketing, offered by the University of Illinois.

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You'll Figure It Out

aweissman.com

One evening we were doing this, and the conversation turned to the renewal of a content distribution deal with The New York Times, one of AOL's largest and most important partners. The difficult issue here, as with most of these, was whether AOL could demand exclusivity in exchange for distribution. Thus, the deadlock.

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These Online Programs Will Make You Rethink How You Can Improve Your Business Skills

crowdSPRING Blog

Here are two good courses you might consider through Coursera: Business Strategy, offered by the University of Virginia. “Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” ” Digital Marketing, offered by the University of Illinois.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We began by being content-producers focused on serving the 18-24-year-old demographic right after graduation from Virginia Tech. First, we built relationships with 10+ colleges, getting distribution rights to their students. Fortunately, we are lucky enough to call ourselves profitable in just our first year.