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Startup Lessons From Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon

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By 2012, total sales exceeded 50 million copies and founding band member Roger Waters was cited by Forbes as the second highest paid musician of the year, pulling in $88 million. Lesson: As described in Go For The Quick Buck , wily startups also devise creative ways to secure funding from their customers, rather than from investors.

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Memories of an Unconnected Era: Searching for Sugar Man

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Many people reading this will be digital natives. These are people who don’t remember an era in which we were unconnected. There is no doubt that technology brings benefits to our lives and I have been a heavy user of tech since I was 13 (in 1981). In my unconnected world there was no personal email. Twitter as a communication tool in war.

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(Re)Mixing It Up With Entrepreneurial Filmmaker, Kirby Ferguson

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In Everything (Including Startups) Is A Remix , I discuss the brilliant series of films created by Kirby Ferguson, which focus on the origin of creativity in music, film and business. As I note in Spilling The Beans , the basic ideas upon which startups are founded are worth nothing. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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