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25iq.com August 11, 2018
How Subscription Business Models are Changing Business and Investing (the Microeconomics of Subscriptions)

A subscription is at its core an arrangement with a customer that creates a periodic contractual commitment. Netflix is an example of a subscription-based business.
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nytimes.com August 11, 2018
The Flourishing Business of Fake YouTube Views

Martin Vassilev makes a good living selling fake views on YouTube videos. Working from home in Ottawa, he has sold about 15 million views so far this year, putting him on track to bring in more than $200,000, records show. Mr. Vassilev, 32, does not provide the views himself. His website, 500Views.
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theverge.com August 14, 2018
MoviePass is opting some users into its new plan even after they cancel

MoviePass, the struggling theater subscription service, is rolling out a new plan on Wednesday, August 15th, that will limit users to three movies per month, in addition to existing restrictions on popular first-run films.
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theladders.com August 14, 2018
One of Oprah’s favorite thought leaders says these are the only 3 questions you need to ask yourself

One often wonders how one becomes a life and business coach and expert. It is such a lofty title. But for Marie Forleo, labeled by Oprah as “the thought leader for the next generation,” the title is well earned.
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mashable.com August 15, 2018
MoviePass' owner lost a lot of money last quarter, and it's also getting sued

The movie subscription service's parent company Helios & Matheson Analytics Inc. filed its quarterly earning report, revealing it ran up an operating loss of $126.6 million in the three months ending Jun. 30. The loss is well up from the $2.
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hbr.org August 14, 2018
The Best Way for Netflix to Keep Growing

Netflix has a lot to gain by becoming a multisided platform. Currently, Netflix is in the business of buying or making content, which it sells consumers access to at prices and on terms it fully controls (a monthly subscription).
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nytimes.com August 12, 2018
July Retail Sales Released, and Walmart Reports Earnings

A housing report may show weakness in the real estate market, and investors will be looking at the strength of Walmart’s online efforts. RETAIL INDUSTRYJuly retail sales report will help clarify consumer sentiment.
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business.jooq.org August 13, 2018
Growth Is Not the Only Goal

For many, growth is the undisputed holy grail of business. The ultimate goal. Grow or die. Eat or be eaten. You can google it, you’ll find many answers: A lot of what’s written does make sense.
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businessinsider.com August 14, 2018
A professor who taught MBA students for 15 years says the jobs today's graduates dream of are very different from the ones they used to want

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic started teaching MBA students more than 15 years ago. Back then, all his students wanted to work for corporate giants like Goldman Sachs, IBM, and Unilever.
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entrepreneur.com August 13, 2018
5 Reasons Why Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Are Essential in the Cannabis Industry Business

The cannabis sector is one of America’s fastest growing industries. Thirty states have passed medical marijuana laws, and nine of those allow adult use. Nearly two-thirds of Americans support legalization.
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fastcompany.com May 4, 2015
From Passion To Profit: How To Make Money Doing What You Love

When Derek Fagerstrom was growing up, creative young people wanted to do anything but go into business: They wanted to start a band, write a screenplay, or paint murals. But the world has changed. “We’re seeing a totally different approach to business,” says Fagerstrom, who is now 39.
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hbr.org May 10, 2013
The Unexpected Antidote to Procrastination

A recent early morning hike in Malibu, California, led me to a beach, where I sat on a rock and watched surfers.
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hbr.org March 28, 2016
You Need to Practice Being Your Future Self

I was coaching Sanjay,* a leader in a technology firm who felt stuck and frustrated. He wasn’t where he wanted to be at this point in his career. He had come to our coaching session, as usual, prepared to discuss the challenges he was currently facing.
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economist.com August 17, 2015
The sad, sick life of the business traveller

MANY of us have found ourselves trying to explain to friends and colleagues that, no, business travel isn’t as fun and glamorous as it seems. Finally, there could be proof to back this up.
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firstround.com
Speed as a Habit

This article is by Dave Girouard, CEO of personal finance startup Upstart, and former President of Google Enterprise Apps. He’s well known for building Google’s enterprise apps division into a $1B+ global business. Here he shares his tips for making speed fundamental to your company.
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economist.com September 21, 2017
Psychology beats business training when it comes to entrepreneurship

MANAGEMENT gurus have chewed over the topic endlessly: is a flair for entrepreneurship something that you are born with, or something that can be taught? In a break with those gurus’ traditions, a group of economists and researchers from the World Bank, the National University of Singapore and Leu
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hbr.org July 18, 2014
Don’t Sell a Product, Sell a Whole New Way of Thinking

We all know the story. A team creates a groundbreaking new innovation only to see it mired in internal debates. When it is eventually launched in the market, there is an initial flurry of sales to early adopters, but then sales cycles become sluggish.
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hbr.org January 18, 2017
Spending 10 Minutes a Day on Mindfulness Subtly Changes the Way You React to Everything

Leaders across the globe feel that the unprecedented busyness of modern-day leadership makes them more reactive and less proactive. There is a solution to this hardwired, reactionary leadership approach: mindfulness.
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entrepreneur.com October 17, 2017
How to Write a Business Plan

Now that you understand why you need a business plan and you've spent some time doing your homework gathering the information you need to create one, it's time to roll up your sleeves and get everything down on paper.
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fs.blog October 31, 2016
A Short List of Books for Doing New Things

Andrew Ng has quite the modern resume. He founded Coursera, a wonderful website that gives anyone with Internet access the ability to take high level university courses on almost any topic.
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mckinsey.com January 31, 2018
The next-generation operating model for the digital world

Companies need to increase revenues, lower costs, and delight customers. Doing that requires reinventing the operating model. Companies know where they want to go. They want to be more agile, quicker to react, and more effective.
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25iq.com November 18, 2017
Business Lessons from Ben Thompson of Stratechery

Ben Thompson is the founder of the subscription newsletter Stratechery. He previously worked at Apple, Microsoft, and Automattic, where he focused on strategy, developer relations, and marketing. I love the way he thinks and writes. I always look at something in a new way after I read his writing.
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hbr.org April 10, 2017
A New, More Rigorous Study Confirms: The More You Use Facebook, the Worse You Feel

The average Facebook user spends almost an hour on the site every day, according to data provided by the company last year. A Deloitte survey found that for many smartphone users, checking social media apps are the first thing they do in the morning – often before even getting out of bed.
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lettersofnote.com November 9, 2011
Some Thoughts on Our Business

20 years ago, in January of 1991, a very critical 28-page internal memo — written by the then-head of Disney's film studios, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and distributed to his fellow executives in an effort to refocus their approach — was leaked to the press, and instantly became talk of the industry.
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theatlantic.com March 7, 2018
Is Big Business Really That Bad?

In 1952, Charles Wilson, then the president of General Motors, was nominated by Dwight Eisenhower to become secretary of defense. During his confirmation hearing, Wilson was asked whether, as secretary, he could make a decision adverse to GM’s interests.
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techcrunch.com April 13, 2017
Uber reportedly tracked Lyft drivers using a secret software program named ‘Hell’

Another day, another revelation of an ethically questionable business practice by Uber . This time The Information reports that Uber secretly tracked Lyft drivers using an internal software program it dubbed Hell.
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hbr.org December 21, 2016
Make Peace with Your Unlived Life

Tina was at a crossroads. Her daughter had recently left for college, and her husband had his own pursuits. And although she’d once enjoyed banking, she now bore little interest in her work. For some time, she had been asking herself whether she should quit.
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entrepreneur.com March 21, 2016
How to Start a Business With (Almost) No Money

You’re excited to start a business. Maybe you have an idea, or you’re just fascinated with the idea of launching and growing your own enterprise. You’re willing to take some risks, like leaving your current job or going without personal revenue for a while.
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hbr.org July 6, 2015
The Condensed Guide to Running Meetings

We love to hate meetings. And with good reason — they clog up our days, making it hard to get work done in the gaps, and so many feel like a waste of time.
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entrepreneur.com August 14, 2014
6 Things I Wish Somebody Had Told Me When I Started My Small Business

I co-founded my business NutraBella, Inc. in 2005 after hearing my pregnant friends complain about their horse-pill sized pre-natal vitamins. We dreamed of giving women better vitamin options with Bellybar.
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blog.pinboard.in July 9, 2014
Pinboard Turns Five (Pinboard Blog)

Today marks five years since I launched the website that my mom still refers to as 'the other bedbugs'. Happy business birthday to me! Any site that aspires to be an archive starts life with a credibility problem.
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inc.com June 11, 2015
Top 10 Business Plan Templates You Can Download Free

Writing your business plan. Ughhhh. It's definitely not the most exciting part of starting a business. In fact, if you're like a lot of entrepreneurs, you're probably going to find yourself pulling a few all-nighters to get one done before heading into your first pitch for funding.
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venturebeat.com November 30, 2014
Why Eric Schmidt doesn’t know how Google works

Google is a great company — from its record $23 billion IPO in 2004 (at a time when Nasdaq was below 2000!) to its dominant mobile OS. My associates and I have such an admiration for Google that we built our latest web conferencing platform with Google’s technologies.
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theverge.com March 22, 2017
Medium launches memberships for $5 per month

Medium has just launched its subscription service, which for $5 per month will give subscribers access to... something, eventually. At the moment, the service isn’t offering subscribers much beyond the knowledge that their money is going directly to writers.
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abovethecrowd.com April 18, 2013
A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy

In a casino, the term “rake” refers to the commission that the house earns for operating a poker game. With each hand, a small percentage of the pot is scraped off by the dealer, which in essence becomes the “revenue” for the casino.
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economist.com September 28, 2013
The “Breaking Bad” school

THERE are obvious reasons for watching “Breaking Bad”: for once the Hollywood hype surrounding the television series is justified. But there is also a less obvious reason: it is one of the best studies available of the dynamics of modern business.
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bigthink.com June 14, 2016
15 Signs You Are Smarter Than Average

A thought-provoking list was published by that summarizes some science-based commonalities between smart people. Certainly, this is the perfect place to mention that correlation doesn't imply causation. So don't necessarily run out there and get a cat to boost your IQ.
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kalzumeus.com March 20, 2010
Running A Software Business On 5 Hours A Week

Some four years ago, I started Bingo Card Creator, a business which sells software to teachers. At the time, my big goal for the future was eventually making perhaps $200 a month, so that I could buy more video games without feeling guilty about it.
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theatlantic.com February 17, 2018
Airbnb and the Unintended Consequences of 'Disruption'

The U.S economy is in the midst of a wrenching technological transformation that is fundamentally changing the way people sleep, work, eat, shop, love, read, and interact. At least, that’s one interpretation.
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techcrunch.com April 19, 2015
Why ‘Do It For Me’ Is The Next Big Thing

Editor’s note: Anthony P. Lee is a General Partner at Altos Ventures, a venture growth equity fund focused on investing in high-growth, founder-led software, mobile and Internet companies.
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medium.com August 24, 2017
How I Went from Burn-out Entrepreneur to Automating my $4M Company and 10x my Productivity.

Building a business is hard enough. On its official website, the U.S. Small Business Administration purports that “roughly 50 percent of small businesses fail within the first five years.” The odds are stacked against us entrepreneurs.
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huffingtonpost.com February 9, 2016
To Anyone Who Thinks They're Falling Behind In Life

You don't need more motivation. You don't need to be inspired to action. You don't need to read any more lists and posts about how you're not doing enough.
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hbr.org May 1, 2013
Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything

Launching a new enterprise—whether it’s a tech start-up, a small business, or an initiative within a large corporation—has always been a hit-or-miss proposition.
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hbr.org February 22, 2017
“Poor Communication” Is Often a Symptom of a Different Problem

Do employees complain that your company suffers from a lack of communication? That the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing? Maybe the one doing the complaining is you.
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eugenewei.com October 26, 2013
Amazon and the "profitless business model" fallacy

With every quarterly earnings call, my Twitter feed lights up with jokes about how Amazon continues to grow its revenue and make no profits and how trusting investors continue to rewards the company for it.
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lifehacker.com October 3, 2013
How to Grow Your Personal Brand When You're an Introvert

I had just finished a talk at a leading technology company when an engineer approached me. “I liked your ideas about personal branding, and I can see how they’d work,” he told me. “But most of them aren’t for me—I’m an introvert.
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bloomberg.com October 15, 2015
How Bad Will It Get for American Express?

As Costco cuts ties, Amex struggles to hang on. When Chenault made the reverse trip to Issaquah, the Costco guys were tickled by how meticulously Amex choreographed his movements.
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iflscience.com November 27, 2015
Psychological Tricks You Can Use To Get People To Do Whatever You Want

Have you ever left a shop, a chat with a friend or a meeting at work and felt like you’ve somehow been duped? It's possible you might have been swayed or swindled by some subtle psychological impressions you weren’t consciously aware of.
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oreilly.com September 16, 2013
How I failed

This post originally appeared on LinkedIn. When you start out as an entrepreneur, it’s just you and your idea, or you and your co-founder’s and your idea. Then you add customers, and they shape and mold you and that idea until you achieve the fabled “product-market fit.
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hbr.org February 3, 2017
8 Ways to Read (a Lot) More Books This Year

How much do you read? For most of my adult life I read maybe five books a year — if I was lucky. I’d read a couple on vacation and I’d always have a few slow burners hanging around the bedside table for months.
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hbr.org January 23, 2015
What Is a Business Model?

In The New, New Thing, Michael Lewis refers to the phrase business model as “a term of art.” And like art itself, it’s one of those things many people feel they can recognize when they see it (especially a particularly clever or terrible one) but can’t quite define.
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huffingtonpost.com July 6, 2016
I Finally Understand Why Most Small Businesses Don't Succeed

It finally occurred to me the other day why many small businesses don't succeed. It is so obvious, I have no idea why it took me so long to draw this conclusion.
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hbr.org February 6, 2017
Emotional Intelligence Has 12 Elements. Which Do You Need to Work On?

Esther is a well-liked manager of a small team. Kind and respectful, she is sensitive to the needs of others. She is a problem solver; she tends to see setbacks as opportunities. She’s always engaged and is a source of calm to her colleagues.
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wired.com July 23, 2012
The Story of Steve Jobs: An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale?

Soon after Steve Jobs returned to Apple as CEO in 1997, he decided that a shipping company wasn’t delivering spare parts fast enough. The shipper said it couldn’t do better, and it didn’t have to: Apple had signed a contract granting it the business at the current pace.
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blog.kissmetrics.com
50+ Google Analytics Resources – The 2014 Edition

Google Analytics is one of the best free data analysis tools on the web. But having this powerful tool at your disposal is irrelevant if you don’t know how to harness its potential.
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entrepreneur.com May 26, 2015
10 Behaviors of Unstoppable Entrepreneurs

Being an entrepreneur isn’t easy. It requires the kinds of habits that most people simply don’t have, along with a discipline, passion and dedication that are unmatched among non-business owners.
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blog.learningbyshipping.com August 20, 2013
Continuous Productivity: New tools and a new way of working for a new era

What happens when the tools and technologies we use every day become mainstream parts of the business world? What happens when we stop leading separate “consumer” and “professional” lives when it comes to technology stacks? The result is a dramatic change in the products we use at work
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hive.org
Hive

“Lessons from My 20s” is a 1200+ slide presentation from Hive Chairman Ryan Allis on everything he learned in his twenties on life, entrepreneurship, and the world. We hope you find the slides useful! You can download all the slides here or view them embedded below.
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hbr.org November 18, 2016
A Simple Way to Stay Grounded in Stressful Moments

Mindfulness should be as much a physical practice as it is a mental one. Given its name, you might think mindfulness is something you do only with your mind.
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newyorker.com June 29, 2015
What Meditation Can Do for Us, and What It Can’t

An author owns a snappy title, and then the snappy title owns the author.
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forbes.com October 6, 2017
The 40% Rule: The Simple Secret To Success

There is no shortage of business books on the market (including mine), most of which claim to hold the secrets to success. As a business book writer myself, I’m not inclined to disparage any of these.
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hbr.org February 27, 2017
What the Best Mentors Do

Mentorship comes in many flavors. It doesn’t always work unless leaders bear in mind a few common principles.
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hbr.org March 1, 2017
Great Companies Obsess Over Productivity, Not Efficiency

Business leaders often think of “efficiency” and “productivity” as synonyms, two sides of the same coin. When it comes to strategy, however, efficiency and productivity are very different.
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hbr.org March 2, 2017
The Right Way to Start a Meeting

We all know there’s a price to pay for a making bad first impression: A limp handshake conveys low confidence; a wrinkled suit makes you seem lazy; oversharing comes across as emotional instability.
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entrepreneur.com January 28, 2016
6 Keys to Develop a Successful Small Business

Steve Jobs dropped out of college to start a little computer company in his garage. Mark Zuckerberg launched the first iteration of Facebook from his dorm room at Harvard.
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economist.com May 18, 2017
Why Harvard Business School is under fire

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL (HBS) has come under the cosh this month.
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entrepreneur.com June 6, 2016
Tony Robbins: Want Success? Rewire Your Mind.

Tony Robbins is in the business of breakthroughs. He helps people achieve personal and professional breakthroughs with his wildly popular motivational seminars, his life strategy coaching to CEOs, U.S.
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lifehacker.com May 9, 2013
Should I Start My Own Business?

Dear Lifehacker, I'm tired of the rat race and have been dreaming about starting my own business for some time. Having never done this before, though, I'm nervous about taking the plunge. How can I tell if starting my company is really a good idea or if it'll be doomed to failure?
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entrepreneur.com June 27, 2014
50 Signs You Need to Start Your Own Business

If you’re sitting at your desk, daydreaming to start your own business, this is the article for you. You already know that launching a company can be an intimidating process requiring tons of hard work. But the question has been lingering with you day and night.
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christopherhawkins.com May 20, 2016
Dear Client: Stop Asking For A Ballpark Estimate

I like you, client, you’re what makes it possible to do what I love for a living.
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techcrunch.com February 23, 2014
Technology Unlocks “Economies Of Unscale” For Small Businesses

Editor’s note: Hemant Taneja is a partner at General Catalyst and an investor in Stripe, Snapchat and Tunein. Follow him on Twitter @htaneja. It’s been an exhilarating time for small business owners. Twenty years ago, they lacked the tools to expand outside of their niche markets.
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newyorker.com May 15, 2017
Is the Gig Economy Working?

Not long ago, I moved apartments, and beneath the weight of work and lethargy a number of small, nagging tasks remained undone. Some art work had to be hung from wall moldings, using wire. In the bedroom, a round mirror needed mounting beside the door.
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theguardian.com April 27, 2018
Why we should bulldoze the business school

There are 13,000 business schools on Earth. That’s 13,000 too many. And I should know – I’ve taught in them for 20 years. By Martin Parker Visit the average university campus and it is likely that the newest and most ostentatious building will be occupied by the business school.
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forbes.com October 21, 2017
The State Of Small Business Marketing

Marketing is a moving target these days. Technologies evolve and customer behavior seems to change almost every day. Small businesses tend to be a little slow with marketing developments. Some are cutting-edge, of course – but most wait until there’s proof a tactic works.
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justinkan.com November 12, 2016
The Founder’s Guide To Selling Your Company

For most founders, selling a company is a life changing event that they have had no training for. At Y Combinator, one big thing we help our startups with is navigating questions around the acquisition process.
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techcrunch.com October 5, 2015
Easily Measure The Profitability Of Your Consumer Subscription Business

We are currently witnessing a shift in business models, as many consumer tech companies move from transactional models in favor of subscription-based ones. YouTube is launching an ad-free, subscription-based service. Apple recently launched a streaming music service for $10/month.
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paulgraham.com
How to Start a Startup

You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed.
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lifehacker.com December 6, 2012
To Achieve Career Goals, Stop Planning and Start Preparing

Robert Pozen's students at Harvard Business School frequently ask him how he planned out his career to become president of Fidelity Investments. His response? "There was no grand plan; I backed into my career one step at a time.
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newyorker.com August 29, 2016
Deutsche Bank’s $10-Billion Scandal

Almost every weekday between the fall of 2011 and early 2015, a Russian broker named Igor Volkov called the equities desk of Deutsche Bank’s Moscow headquarters. Volkov would speak to a sales trader—often, a young woman named Dina Maksutova—and ask her to place two trades simultaneously.
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businessinsider.com December 3, 2015
33 business books every professional should read before turning 30

Your 20s are the time when you lay the foundation for your career and finances, which means there's plenty to learn along the way. To help you figure out how to navigate the professional world and set yourself on the right trajectory, we've rounded up some of our favorite business books.
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inc.com September 19, 2015
The 50 Best Quotes From the 50 Best Business Books

1. Think and Grow Rich “If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.” 2.
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inc.com September 24, 2015
12 Powerful Secrets of Really Persuasive People

There are people who are very good at getting other people to do what they want, especially at work. So how do they do it? You may be surprised to know that you probably already have the qualities you need to be persuasive. It doesn't mean you have to be manipulative or a suck-up.
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fastcompany.com October 10, 2014
This Is Not A Startup Story

We were qualified to start a business in some ways, not so much in others.
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bloomberg.com March 16, 2016
The Journalist and the Troll: This Man Spent Two Years Trying to Destroy Me Online

By | March 16, 2016 Photograph by Christaan Felber From I saw the photo first, me in a bloody wash of red with “RACIST” pulsing over my face.
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entrepreneur.com October 23, 2015
5 Books to Read Before Starting Your Business

Starting a new business is no small undertaking. There are many factors to be considered, and it is important to do your research and prepare yourself as much as possible, with some 80 percent of new businesses failing within the first couple of years.
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firstround.com
The Inside Story on How SurveyMonkey Cracked the International Market

When Selina Tobaccowala joined SurveyMonkey, 85% of its business was done in English. It was solidly a domestic company making slow inroads overseas. A little over five years later, they are supporting 17 different languages and 28 currencies.
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lifehacker.com April 24, 2009
Essential Tools for Starting Up Your Side Business

Finally getting serious about turning your hobby into a side business? Dozens of free and cheap do-it-yourself tools make setting up a professional virtual storefront easy. Photo by intenteffect.
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buzzfeed.com March 19, 2017
Meet The Man Whose Site Mark Zuckerberg Reads Every Day

Gabe Rivera was halfway through his lamb gyro when it became clear he’d been spotted. It was the middle of the lunch rush at a bustling upscale food court in downtown San Francisco and Rivera was looking to maintain a low profile.
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splinternews.com September 14, 2015
I created a fake business and bought it an amazing online reputation

If you live in the Bay Area and have looked for something special to spice up a birthday party, you might have discovered the Freakin' Awesome Karaoke Express, a truck that promises to deliver an unbelievable selection of songs to your doorstep.
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theatlantic.com December 14, 2016
The Psychology of White-Collar Criminals

Two leading executive headhunters once wrote a book called Lessons From the Top: The Search for America’s Best Business Leaders that celebrated 50 titans of industry. Readers were encouraged “to learn from and pattern themselves” after the leadership qualities displayed by these executives.
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firstround.com March 21, 2018
User-First Monetization — Lessons from Instagram and Strava

Last year, James Quarles walked into an unexpected interaction with a dad from his kids' elementary school. Running late to an evening event for parents, he was greeted by another father who knew that Quarles worked at Instagram. "Man, you just … get me," the guy said. Quarles wasn’t following.
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fastcompany.com July 25, 2016
How I Left A 12-Year Career In Silicon Valley To Work On A Beach In Belize

Three months ago, I worked in San Francisco as a marketing leader for a unicorn startup. I earned a salary that let me do, eat, and buy whatever I wanted. Now, I live and work from a beach in Belize, earn half of what I used to, and couldn’t be happier.
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lifehacker.com December 26, 2013
Ask These Three Questions at the End of Every Meeting

For meetings that actually lead to successful outcomes, it's advisable to ask everyone what they see as their necessary actions. Robert C. Pozen, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, expands on this and says there are three questions you should be asking all the participants:
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stocklogos.com September 22, 2011
Ultimate creative business cards collection

Pause Home Entertainment's iPhone speaker card. Kol Kid Crayon Business Cards you can draw with.
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medium.com December 17, 2015
5 Reasons Why You Should Build A Small Business — Not A Start-up

I know we all want to do important things. We all want to work on important products, start important companies and accomplish tasks that could change the world and have an enormous impact. I see this in entrepreneurs and the tech community more than anywhere else.
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theatlantic.com April 10, 2017
What in the World Is Causing the Retail Meltdown of 2017?

From rural strip-malls to Manhattan’s avenues, it has been a disastrous two years for retail. There have been nine retail bankruptcies in 2017—as many as all of 2016. J.C. Penney, RadioShack, Macy’s, and Sears have each announced more than 100 store closures.
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qz.com May 18, 2017
The books every new graduate should read, according to a dozen business leaders

New graduates may think they’re ready for the world, but even after all that learning, there’s still room in their heads for some wisdom.
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stratechery.com May 9, 2017
The Local News Business Model

It’s hardly controversial to note that the traditional business model for most publishers, particularly newspapers, is obsolete.
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