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Roofstock Launches Real Estate Marketplace In Los Angeles

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The company said Los Angeles is its 14th market. The company's marketplace offers inspections, valuation, title reports, and information on tenants and local property managers to its users. technology hub", and pointed at such local technology companies as Tinder, Hyperloop One, SpaceX, Hulu, and Snap.

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Kensh?, ‘the antithesis of Goop,’ launches a research-based guide to natural medicine

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We’re the antithesis of Goop,” Berlincourt, a fintech veteran who previously led marketing and product at Simple Finance, tells TechCrunch. The startup has also collected information to construct a research-backed guide to holistic health, something the team believes has been missing from the natural health sector.

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How You Know You’ve Got the Right Startup Model?

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If you’ve watched any industry in the last 20 years where technology has begun to transform how the industry works the results are always predictable driven by what Clay Christensen appropriately called “ The Innovator’s Dilemma ” (one of the most influential books that changed my thinking about markets).

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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

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My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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9 Popular Startup Business Model Variations For Scale

Startup Professionals Musings

With this model, you provide website access to insider information for a regular subscription payment. It works best in a tightly defined niche market, like antique car owners, or rare-coin junkies, or woodworking enthusiasts, where experts hare hard to find, and members can gain from interacting with each other.

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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

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Market Opportunity. But what about markets? We always say that great opportunities are composed of a world-class team addressing a big & disruptive market opportunity. One of the common refrains that I heard was that investors were looking for “large markets with lots of white space.&# This annoyed me to no end.

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9 Subscription Model Variations To JumpStart Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

With this model, you provide website access to insider information for a regular subscription payment. It works best in a tightly defined niche market, like antique car owners, or rare-coin junkies, or woodworking enthusiasts, where experts hare hard to find, and members can gain from interacting with each other.

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