TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

It’s called “ Pitch Perfect” and it’s available in good bookstores and a lot of awful ones as well. Between all of these things, I’ve helped scores of startups find their stories and craft great pitches — the vast majority of which were successful in raising capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

For the past decade, three companies have been building full-fledged e-book ecosystems with devices, apps and digital bookstores all working perfectly together — Amazon, Rakuten and a tiny company called Vivlio.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2019

HOPE operates a bookstore, Underground Books, one of less than 50 black-owned bookstores in the United States. Julian says that without an effective reporting infrastructure in place, and if you’re not consistently looking at it, your business could be losing a ton of money and not even know it. . “If Julian says St.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Get down to your local indie bookstore and sniff some freshly printed wood pulp! Haje’s favorite was “A Deadly Education” (Naomi Novik’s first book in the Scholomance trilogy), which incidentally was recommended by both Alex and Amanda, which was how he found out about the books in the first place. Christine and Haje.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 19, 2018

Too many would-be leaders head straight for the business section of bookstores, missing many useful non-fiction areas. Non-Fiction. In doing so, they are missing important lessons in spirituality, philosophy, psychology and history. Pick up any of the following non-fiction titles, and you will improve your leadership skills and more.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

It feels nice to eavesdrop on conversations and hear people talking about the future, to see bookstores filled until close and to have a full schedule of networking events and happy hours. It’s been felt.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Every week, we go out for sushi and visit the nearby bookstore. My daughter and I have a tradition. It might not sound like much, but being able to consistently share something that we both enjoy means the world to us. But by mid-2012, my company was facing the possibility of bankruptcy.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

In contrast, the number of independent bookstores in the US increased 49% from 1,600 stores in 2009 to 2,500 stores in 2018 6. Bird & Beckett, a bookstore in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood, regularly hosts poetry readings, open mic nights, and jazz performances. million in 2012 to 1.55 Raffaelli, Ryan.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2022

For example, Isis Asare, CEO and founder of Sistah Scifi , an online bookstore, discussed how she tries to make social content a two-way conversation, encouraging customers to share photos, book recommendations, and more.

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OkDork

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

What stands out more in bookstores? Could people walking by a bookstore still see the title? These mockups affirmed my decision. Even when we did a mockup of the book on Amazon, it was clear that the green was the right decision.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 2, 2016

Instead of just going to one building, people were attracted to visiting a neighborhood of bookstores, restaurants, etc. One of the reasons why Dumbo became a thing was because David Walentas bought nearly a dozen buildings in the same area--enabling the design of a neighborhood through sweetheart deals with storefront retail.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 13, 2022

In the airport, on Amazon, in college bookstores, and carpet cleaning services, bundling is the open secret used to increase cash flow. In college bookstores, the most common bundle I see is the t-shirt rolled up in a baseball cap. You see it everywhere. The basic truth is – it works. What is Bundling. Other Examples of Bundling.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

in the town of Woodstock, New York, where my hippy parents owned a used Celtic bookstore. Rather than coming from the travel industry, I was a business litigator. I grew up faaar from Silicon Valley?—?in How did somebody with my background build a tech company?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It went to the bookstores and hit shelves in March of 2020, the week that the shutdowns for the COVID pandemic started. Kevin: I think those are 2 very different questions and I’ll dig into them separately. I actually wrote a book about this, honestly, at the worst possible time. The book is called Reprogramming the American Dream.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The latest was Amazon, who opened up a bookstore in Seattle in November. Sales might be soaring in your online business, but opening up shop may be trickier than you think. Retail in 2015 was abuzz with a new trend: successful e-commerce companies choosing to open brick-and-mortar stores.

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OkDork

JUNE 10, 2022

Maybe you could create a Webflow for bookstores or take WordPress and build it for auto body shops. Figure out where there's a bunch of customers who have money and also need extra help. The other thing you can do is take any of these sites and customize them for very specific verticals. Tech Startup Idea #8: Competitor Tracking Tools.

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Derek Sivers

JULY 8, 2011

Since I couldn’t afford a programmer, I went to the bookstore and got a $25 book on PHP and MySQL programming. I want my business to be smaller, not bigger.”. That always ended the conversation. By not having any money to waste, you never waste money. Then I sat down and learned it, with no programming experience.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 19, 2015

The book’s unforgettable title may be the only one in the business section of the bookstore with the word hairball. In his book, he described the way he injected creativity into his working life. I thought it was a great book with three salient themes. Gordon contends that all companies are hairballs.

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The enjoyment and the social experience of that engagement with books in a bookstore? Daunt believes improves customer satisfaction. “If If you just want to buy a book, the guys in Seattle will sell you a book,” Mr. Daunt said. That’s our game.”

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Berkonomics

JUNE 6, 2019

Did the proprietor of the neighborhood bookstore or national rental chain not see this coming? Seeing the future of frictionless commerce. Frictionless distribution through moving bits of information is so much cheaper for all but those making their living in the middle of the supply chain.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 7, 2010

Soft cover from the Amazon bookstore ($24.95). Workbook from the Amazon bookstore ($19.95). Soft cover book ( $20.00 your cost , $24.95 list) direct from the crew. Workbook direct from the crew ( $15.00 your cost , $19.95 Amazon KINDLE eBook edition ($9.95). Soft cover from Barnes & Noble Booksellers ($24.95, members $22.45).

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Available at berkus.com , Amazon Kindle, or any online bookstore. [Email readers, continue here…] In this age of readily available information, the risk involved in making a statement that can later be proved untrue is too great. It goes to your. credibility itself when discovered or challenged.

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Berkonomics

JULY 6, 2012

Did the proprietor of the neighborhood bookstore or national rental chain not see this coming? Frictionless distribution through moving bits of information is so much cheaper for all but those making their living in the middle of the supply chain.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Available at berkus.com , Amazon Kindle, or any online bookstore. Unlike other groups, ABL members all belong to either healthcare or technology industry-focused roundtables. There they not only discuss their business issues, but significant business-changing trends. facing their industry.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

So, no more odd Amazon bookstores, or so-called four-star stores. Amazon’s physical store push is over : You might have never visited one, and if not, too late. Amazon’s physical stores that sold curated collections of goods from its e-commerce marketplace are now kaput.

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Derek Sivers

JULY 20, 2011

I went to the bookstore and got a book on PHP and MySQL programming. My tech friends told me I had to make a server-side database-driven automated system. Since I couldn’t afford to hire a programmer, that meant I had to learn it myself. It was the slow road, but I loved it!

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abovethecrowd.com

MARCH 10, 2014

Despite this, some competitors still hold on to the convenient delusion that Uber is solely a high-end service, perhaps akin to CDNow assuming Amazon was only a bookstore. The company has also intentionally worked to lower price on uberX as often as it can (in some markets it has already lowered price four times).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

If you grew up in most places in America, there weren’t New York Times best-sellers coming to your local indie bookstore and just doing readings…in a lot of ways, this is able to democratize a lot of what authors do to engage the big cities [on book tours] but for everyone else,” he said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Its merchants include e-commerce platforms and offline retailers, like Isetann Supermarket, Lazada, Zalora, Shopee, Agoda, McDonald’s, Philippine Airlines, Razer E-Pins and National Bookstores. The company says it has a waitlist of more than 20 brands waiting to onboard to its platform. Plentina also added new loan terms.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

That’s because traditional retailers can employ digital tools for recapturing customers faster than Amazon can build 3,000 grocery stores, something the company already tried to do with bookstores, but decided last week to close them , citing a challenging in-person shopping environment due to the pandemic.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The number of indie bookstores, for example, has been growing for years. As it turns out, once Amazon killed off Barnes & Nobel, it created room for indie bookstores to return to the retail landscape, because it was bigger bookstores that were killing them, not specifically the internet.

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