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Staax thinks peer-to-peer payments can onboard a new generation of stock investors

TechCrunch

What sets Staax apart, though, is that it allows for peer-to-peer payments in stock. For better or for worse, Robinhood helped inspire a new generation of investors to enter the stock market. Oftentimes, the barriers to investing are logistical, she explained. Image Credit: Haje Kamps / TechCrunch.

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How to Manage a Startup Through Troubling Times

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Join a CEO peer group. If you are in a peer group with other CEOs , it’s much easier to get perspective on what’s happening to you. Sometimes, you don’t feel comfortable describing your fears and frustrations to your cofounders or investors on your board, but a peer group allows you to do this in a safe way.

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

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You can of course view the presentation in SlideShare above or download it directly for free here. Why is Collaborative Consumption Becoming a Hot Trend for Startup Companies? I described that phenomenon in this post. Declining prices & margins in a small market is much less interesting. Add unemployment to debt.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. They had a viral promotional technique that encouraged your friends to download their app to watch a video they posted and a channel (Facebook) that was trying to grow its video audience. It’s worth a quick read. This will fail.

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How Founders Can Master Mental Resilience to Stay in the Game Long Enough to Win

Entrepreneurs' Organization

But now on the main stage at the biggest competition of the year, the audience is peering and the judges are scoring — and everything feels different. But now on the main stage at the biggest competition of the year, the audience is peering and the judges are scoring — and everything feels different. How will she handle the pressure?

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

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By now many of you know the Harlem Shake but what you may not appreciate is the broader trend behind the video and it has mirrored my general views on how TV will work in the future. 200 million views. Suck it traditional TV. TV of the future will not always have linear stories. Why would it? Gangnam Style Meets Torso TV. think Apple.

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The Full Dataset on What VCs are Thinking About Funding in 2016

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For this year’s analysis we turned to our peers to gather their points-of-view on the state of the market. It’s linked to here where you can download it or embedded below. It’s linked to here where you can download it or embedded below. Every year at Upfront we try to analyze the venture markets.