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Maestro nets $15 million for its interactive commerce, community and engagement tools for livestreams

TechCrunch LA

The pandemic also helped as artists who were cut off from their audiences began to explore alternative ways to reach fans — and make money. Instead of relying on incumbent distribution platforms, customers control the audience relationship directly and maximize engagement and monetization in a way that fits with their brand objectives.

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Maximize Your Exit By Not Selling Your Company

InfoChachkie

During late 2006 I helped the CEO of RedMojo sell his company to Novell. The post Maximize Your Exit By Not Selling Your Company appeared first on John Greathouse. VC Funding Alternative. Our BATNA to a sale was to accept funding from venture capitalists. You can follow John on Twitter: @johngreathouse. Image credit: Associated Press.

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6 Ways To Improve Your Chances Of New Venture Success

Startup Professionals Musings

John Bradberry, in his classic book “ 6 Secrets To Startup Success ” explores many of these attributes, especially passion, and defines some useful principles to help enthusiastic entrepreneurs squeeze the most out of their passion, while not being trapped by it. Focus on building personal staying power, maximize learning, and improvements.

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8 Secrets for Maximizing Startup Equity and Control

Startup Professionals Musings

Take little to no net profit. Hire experts, not help. Low paid help isn’t cheaper if it takes them twice as long to do the job, or they do the job wrong. If you do, there probably won''t ever be a long run! Reinvest gross profit. Most startup founders already do this, rather than take a salary, to improve their offering.

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Business 2015 - Optimism, But Upgrade Your Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

According to earlier studies from Forbes Insights , many entrepreneurs and small businesses not only feel the lessons learned during the past few years have helped them survive, but the recession also exposed flaws in their business strategies that they were able to fix. See where you can maximize this type of profit.

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How To Avoid The Entrepreneur Passion Trap

Startup Professionals Musings

John Bradberry, in his book “ 6 Secrets To Startup Success ” explores many of these attributes, especially passion, and defines some useful principles to help enthusiastic entrepreneurs squeeze the most out of their passion, while not being trapped by it. Focus on building personal staying power, maximize learning, and improvements.

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Public and Open Debate is the Highest Form of Democracy (and Blogging)

Both Sides of the Table

The net result of my posts plus the comments forms a tighter view of my evolving belief system. Apple has great products and occasionally bad motives driven by profit maximization. But I think it’s fair to point out when I believe that the profit motive is a net negative for startups or for our industry. Life is complex.

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