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Why an Atlanta-based Black influencer collective swapped their collab house for a studio

TechCrunch LA

What if an influencer collective could be truly collaborative, rather than fodder for a depressing Netflix reality show ? My company Putta Crown On It has the opportunity to have a place to do classes, promotional shoots and more,” Sykes told TechCrunch via email. Image Credits: Robiiiworld (Brandy Merriweather via BStarPR).

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Data Elite | First Venture Lab for Big Data Launched by Andreessen Horowitz, Formation8, Ron Conway & Others

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Silicon Valley’s big VC firm’s The Social+Capital Partnership, Andreessen Horowitz, Formation8, Ron Conway, and Anand Rajaraman have today launched Data Elite , to help tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges through data science. Venture lab & early stage fund for big data startups and scientists. No room for failure.

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Lead, Follow or Get the F**k Out of the Way

Both Sides of the Table

And of course fudging never produces world-class results, so many companies suffer from mediocrity. Netflix was widely criticized for breaking their business in two. The leader can only point and recruit world-class people but the results are owed to the team. People laughed at Google buying YouTube for $1.65

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

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Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class. Warby Parker produces modern eyewear at affordable prices, Apple produces elegant, premium technology products, Netflix offers an enormous library of binge-worthy, unique video. Here are some ideas of what I believe matters. What is it, really?

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Why Was Winter in Venture Capital Funding so Short?

Both Sides of the Table

And while the US had FANG (Facebook, Amazon/Apple, Netflix and Google) China has BAT (Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent). https://medium.com/media/a9623767f56815010e95fe3083dcb161/href Huge note of appreciation to Chang Xu of Upfront Ventures who tirelessly helped me track down data, verify hypothesis, shape narrative and debate conclusions.

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Interview with Michael Greenberg, Retina

socalTECH

To tackle this, we formed Retina in 2017, so that we could help businesses find out the true lifetime value of their customers, not just after they had them for years, but when they just walked in the door. We've started working with businesses to help them rank their customer service tickets, based on customer lifetime value.

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Decoding The Science Behind The Laughs, With Daniel Altman of Laffster

socalTECH

And in particular, if you're developing comedy and humor content -- which is a big segment of the content being created--how to do you help people find the content which will resonate with them. Daniel Altman: We recently were in the fall class of MuckerLab. We spoke with Daniel Altman, the CEO of the company, to learn more.

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