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Lessons Learned, Experience Gained: Ruminations on Mark Small’s Journey from Salesperson to Sales…

Jason Malki

Mark brings a wealth of experience and a global perspective as a senior sales and revenue operations leader to his role as a Strategic Advisor to emerging, potentially disruptive companies. It was revolutionary and completely disrupted the way legal research was done. Lexis was an early application of full-text boolean search logic.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

The main thrust of the post is that with YouTube taking a 45% of revenue and talent taking 70% of the remaining revenue, YouTube Networks didn’t have sustainable businesses unless they invested heavily in technology as a tool to increase margin and provide defensibility. margin range to more sustainable 50-60% margin businesses.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Construction tech survey, founder-CEO friction, diversify your cap table

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Configuring a robot to mix cement is easy, but delivering a CementTron 3000 to a job site, training employees on its use, and keeping it maintained are not the kinds of disruptions builders are looking for, especially when margins are so thin and experienced workers are hard to find. Sungjoon Cho, general partner, D20 Capital.

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Daily Crunch: Plaid product updates signal push to ‘own’ more of the account funding process

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based company said it was able to unlock Tesla doors by hacking into the Bluetooth Low Energy technology used by Tesla to unlock and operate the car via its app or key fob. It’s not just Tesla — anyone using this type of technology is vulnerable, the company said. Five construction tech investors analyze 2022 trends and opportunities.

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

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In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? Once lone rangers, Q1 Labs and Radian6 are now surrounded by thriving copycats in a self-sustaining ecosystem. More posts by this contributor.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

What areas need to be disrupted? With the release of iCloud, that's less of an advantage now than it used to be. Adding a phone to that mix as the person paying seeing unnecessarily complicated, especially given the battery life issue. What areas are going to change? You can't have everything--where would you put it?"

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Check out these startups from Pear’s Demo Day (there’s usually a breakout or two in the bunch)

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As notably, despite introducing a far smaller number of teams to investors than Y Combinator and more renowned accelerator programs, there always seem to be at least one or two projects in Pear’s Demo Day mix that turn into actual, sustainable and, sometimes, sizable companies. Note that we did not write the descriptions below.

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