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Don’t be a Grin Fucker

Both Sides of the Table

OK, this will be a test of whether using real curse words in your title or post gets all of your stuff blocked by spam filters or from appearing on HackerNews or the like. That’s the classic definition of Grin Fucking. I grew up in the US but lived in England for so long I can never remember from which country my slang comes.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

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That is the definition of Disruptive Technology. You also need to develop an O&O (your own websites) strategy. But one strategy we’re employed at Maker is to build related types of content into “networks” that are branded and can attract loyal audiences.

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7 strategies for learning new skills

The Zapier Blog

If you've been wanting to learn a new skill or even strengthen existing ones, here are the seven tried-and-trued strategies I used to boost my expertise—and how you can, too. Now that we're on the same page, let's dive into the seven strategies you can use to learn a new skill or enhance the ones you already have.

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Some Thoughts and Models Around Ownership Targets

This is going to be BIG.

The incentive to want a larger fund is real—more staff, better office, better salaries—but the investment strategy really doesn’t make much sense if you ask me. I took the time to model out some returns using share price as a basis—to figure out if the price you’re paying when you buy up is worth the difference in the outcomes.

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Behind the scenes: The challenges of building an EdTech startup

Startup Grind

I would definitely recommend UCL educate program for that side. Challenges: It’s not really that hard to acquire users for your product at this stage given your value proposition is clear and the product is somehow useful. Startup Failure Reason SharpScholar Layers of approvals needed for the product to be used.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. I don’t think my unwillingness to use it is generational (as in I’m 42 and don’t “get it&# ) – I think it’s a life stage issue. Add this new model to the mix. 15mm in Series A.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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By definition, you read blogs. I use WordPress. They’re more light weight and easier to use. hen you need to decide whether to use the “hosted&# version or the “installed&# version. The disadvantage is that you can’t install a lot of additional tools that use Javascript. Absofuckinglutely.

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