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4 Ways to Leverage Podcasting to Grow Your Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

It’s nothing related to sound engineering or fancy marketing strategies. A podcast is a marketing channel – and it can be a key part of a strategic marketing mix. While blogs and posts on social media are used to connect with your audience, podcasting has a unique place in the social media landscape.

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8 Steps to Making Better Business Decisions

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Their competitors took advantage—and Kodak went bankrupt in 2012. Fortunately, recent research in cognitive neuroscience has identified strategies help you know when you’re falling into cognitive biases , as well as ways to defeat these dangerous judgment errors in your professional life. It’s not a mystery or an innate gift.

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Exotel raises $40 million for its full-stack customer engagement platform

TechCrunch

Exotel, which counts Blume Ventures and IIFL Asset Management among its backers, has raised about $100 million in a mix of debt and equity rounds in the last 12 months. Indian ride-hailing giant Ola uses Exotel’s platform to send text messages to its customers. The bank balance dipped to 14 lacs at a point in 2014-15.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

Both Sides of the Table

If you want to build a strong online video business it almost certainly must make YouTube an important part of the strategy. I was arguing that I believe in this strategy on the Internet as any disciple of The Innovator’s Dilemma will tell you. MiTú will use its $10 million to build out new production facilities in LA and Mexico.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. We think it’s a matter of products, but history shows us it takes more than just products and technology to create the sweeping changes. June 19th, 2012. June 17th, 2012. June 13th, 2012. June 10th, 2012.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten VC

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. RBI structures have been used for many years in natural resource exploration, entertainment, real estate, and pharmaceuticals.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.