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Boulevard books $70M to help beauty and wellness salons with their bookings

TechCrunch LA

They were early to that idea: Danna describes it as “creator tools for YouTube before YouTube built them itself,” and he said they came up with the idea for Boulevard out of a joke between them. “We started obsessing about this,” Danna went on. Things then took an investigative, plainclothes turn.

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A heartbreaking story about time and money.

Berkonomics

First, think about your time as money! Fixed overhead for salaries, rent, equipment leases and more make up the majority of the “burn rate” (monthly expenses) for most companies. How about young or pre-revenue companies? Not long after, the company was sold in a “fire sale” amounting to slightly less than the debt on the books.

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My First Book – Pricing Your Practice by Eric Greenspan

Eric Greenspan

Woke up and there it was, my book cover. I looked at it for a bit and started thinking about writing it. The book is trending is #1 in the small business category right now. Why did I write a book? But books are different; people treat you different when you become an author. What’s it about?

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The best advice startups will never follow

Berkonomics

Don’t take money, especially startup loans, from unsophisticated investors. . I was a co–lender and assumed the chairmanship of a young startup where the entrepreneur’s cousin also loaned money under the same terms. The post The best advice startups will never follow first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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Some Thoughts about Selling at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

If you haven’t read Adam Lashinsky’s awesome new book about Apple , you should. It takes on many of the lessons MBA programs and Corporate America have been teaching about business for the past 50+ years and questions whether lessons from Apple might be more applicable in thinking about the future.

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One Book Every Entrepreneur Should Own

Both Sides of the Table

Brad Feld seems to write books faster than I can read and write about them. This time he has written a book that is far more important than most management books you will read. He teamed up with his wife, Amy Batchelor , to write about about the impact that entrepreneurship has on relationships and what to do about it.

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The Most Important Book I Read This Summer

Both Sides of the Table

If you haven’t read Diamond, though, I’d recommend starting with “Guns, Germs & Steel” & then “Collapse” but all three are worth reading. I also listened to the book on tape, “Shoe Dog,” the memoir by Phil Knight about the founding and evolution of Nike. This is truly a stain on American society.

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