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Backed by Will Smith and FabFitFun, OurPlace brings cookware and dinnerware direct to consumers

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Amir Tehrani, the company’s co-founder and chief executive spent, his life in the cookware and kitchen business, while his wife, Shiza Tehrani, is the co-founder of the Malala Fund, supporting educational initiatives for young women around the world, and Now Ventures, an impact seed investment fund based in Los Angeles.

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Playhouse is TikTok meets Zillow for the next generation of homeowners

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The feed shows videos of homes on the market, as well as a price tag. As you scroll, you can guess whether the price Playhouse showed you is higher or lower than the actual listing price, helping to educate future buyers about the market (… and also it’s fun, even if you’re not looking to buy a $2 million home in San Francisco).

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Micromobility in limbo: Takeaways from Paris and LA

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What type of market, if any, is the right one? Paris has been an important market for the e-scooter industry at large, but the city has chafed against the vehicles, citing safety incidents , some of which were fatal. In 2021, over 1.2 A spokesperson recently told us that Los Angeles is Lime’s biggest American market today.

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USC Marshall Combines MBA, STEM

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According to the Marshall School, the "STEM specialization" will include certification in areas such as statistics, data analytics, operations and supply chain optimization, finance, forecasting, and digital marketing and modeling. USC said the new option is will become available for its 2020 and 2021 MBA classes this fall.

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8 Creative Pricing Strategies Most Startups Overlook

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Elon Musk and Tesla are prime examples of this approach, when the market for all-electric vehicles was new. Digital products also allow users to be advocates for you and help each other, thus reducing your support and marketing costs. Often online consumers will provide information such as birth dates, education levels and occupations.

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8 Unpublicized Strategies From Serious Entrepreneurs

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At some stage of your education, you realize that you can learn faster, and get more satisfaction, in the real world than in a academic environment. While others like to minimize risks of all sorts, and bend an existing market, real success comes from defining a new market and new customers. There will be time for friends later.

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7 Steps To Greater Satisfaction As A New Entrepreneur

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I’m certainly not saying that all of these are required, but they are certainly all worth some consideration: Get some business education, as well as technical. The education will be invaluable in setting up your own business, managing a team, and learning how to deal with constant challenges. Don’t take shortcuts to make it happen.