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Punchbowl nabs $5M investment, acquires VidHug to add video to party planning platform

TechCrunch

He started by expanding the company’s online greeting card business, which until that point had been a small part of the revenue mix. Finally, he invested in a couple of apps designed to draw new parents to the service early in their children’s lives. That all culminated in a slew of announcements today.

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How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

And, especially when you’re considering integrating a new technology platform into your business—like AI today, or cloud a decade ago—how do you invest in innovation without losing control of your runway and budget? Some investments will generate returns within a few months, while others may take years to produce results.

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Decoding and learning from a business failure

Berkonomics

Investors learn too, and often invest in a failed entrepreneur a second time if believing that those lessons have been well learned, Success can teach lessons too. Any business can use more money. Yes, it works both ways. A successful entrepreneur who has seen the movie before is even more valued. Including cash.

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4 Tips for Reaching Productivity Nirvana in 2016

Entrepreneurs' Organization

That was the goal of The 4-Hour Chef — to teach this toolkit using detailed examples. From 2007-2009 and again from 2012-2013, I said yes to way too many “cool” things. Invest in a start-up that five of my friends were in? Mixing business and pleasure can be a psychologically toxic cocktail.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. “If I am buying some items and feel a bit unsafe about the merchant I’m using, if there’s a credit card, I don’t feel like I’m risking my money. market, choosing New York and L.A.

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

Both Sides of the Table

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. “If I am buying some items and feel a bit unsafe about the merchant I’m using, if there’s a credit card, I don’t feel like I’m risking my money. market, choosing New York and L.A.