Posts Categorized: Part 2 Starting and Growing Your Business

Why Andreessen Horowitz fines late workers

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Description: Venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz explain why they fine workers $10 per minute if they are late to a meeting with an entrepreneur. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Feb 06, 2013 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2013/02/07/t-andreessen-horowitz-fines.fortune/ Questions for Discussions: What does this policy say about the intended realtionship between the venture capital firm and… Read more »

As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow to a Trickle

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Description:  Like plenty of music fans, Sam Broe jumped at the chance to join Spotify two summers ago, and he hasn’t looked back. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Jan 28, 2013 Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/business/media/streaming-shakes-up-music-industrys-model-for-royalties.html?ref=media&_r=0 Questions for Discussions: What does this article have to say about the royalties earned by artists? As small business people on the lower end… Read more »

The Story Behind Smosh, Youtube’s Number One Smash

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Description:   Smosh President Barry Blumberg talks with Bloomberg’s Jon Erlichman about how Smosh has become a Youtube sensation. They speak on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg) Source: Bloomberg.com – video report Date: Jan 24, 2013 Link:  http://bloom.bg/WpPwpk#ooid=w2eGFwODoME4dzTmiBSK3q8HKQLcTu91 Questions for Discussions: How is YouTube different from television? How has the growth in YouTube audience share… Read more »

To Fix Overproduction, China Wants to Supersize Industries

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Description:  China aims for super big when it comes to its industrial enterprises. China’s bureaucrats announced plans this week to push mergers in nine key sectors including steel, cement, shipbuilding, autos, and aluminum, and also set targets for just how consolidated they should become. Source: Businessweek.com Date: Jan 25, 2013 Link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-25/to-fix-overproduction-china-wants-to-supersize-industries#r=hp-ls Questions for Discussions:… Read more »

Video: Lee’s Music puts focus on innovative guitar manufacturing with Riversong Guitars venture

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Description:   Lee’s Music was simply a retail store with a specialist repair arm until Lee’s son, Mike Miltimore, came up with an innovative technique for building stronger, better guitars in a fraction of the time. The company has big plans for its patent-pending design, and is tooling up a manufacturing plant to scale up production…. Read more »

Ad legend bashes Coke, Pepsi in Super Bowl return

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Description:  Most Super Bowl ad stories focus on the advertisers. But the gee-whizzer for SodaStream — an upstart maker of home carbonation machines — may be the guy who is creating its Big Game commercial. Source: USAToday.com Date: Jan 15, 2013 Link: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/01/15/soda-stream-super-bowl-commercial-alex-bogusky/1836061/ Questions for Discussions: Do you think the SodaStream “concept” is a more… Read more »

Free Outdoor Wi-Fi Comes to West Chelsea

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Description:  Residents of West Chelsea inManhattan who were wondering what Google had done for them lately now have their answer: free Wi-Fi service for the whole neighborhood. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Jan 08, 2013 Link: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/free-outdoor-wi-fi-comes-to-chelsea/?ref=technology Questions for Discussions: How will this technological development change consumer use of wi-fi in this neighborhood? How can these regional… Read more »

Help for a Start-Up, but at a High Price

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Description:  EATWHATEVER is a two-step breath-freshening product created four years ago by a then-26-year-old Australian expatriate named Jacqui Rosshandler. Starting with $60,000 in capital, contracting out production and working solo from her New York apartment, Ms. Rosshandler and her company, Jacquii L.L.C., managed to grab a promising but tenuous toehold in the billion-dollar breath-freshening industry… Read more »

5,500 people fund Made in USA undies

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Description: Flint and Tinder used Kickstarter to bring men’s underwear manufacturing back to the US, but was surprised by the challenges they encountered. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Dec 17, 2012 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2012/12/17/t-kickstarter-flint-tinder.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: How did this company get the needed financing to succeed? How did this approach to financing dove-tail with… Read more »

Alternatives to Running Your Business From Home

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Description:  When Melissa Thompson began developing her online counseling business, TalkSession, in February, she worked out of a Manhattan apartment. “After three days, we referred to it as purgatory,” she says. “The lines became so blurred between living and working, productivity was affected. I woke up on weekends and my walls were all covered in… Read more »