Startup Reading List | August 26, 2016 |
No different from any other week; however, we have some user-submitted and classic articles for you to peruse*
Enjoy!
*peruse
pəˈruːz/
verb
formal
read (something), typically in a thorough or careful way.
"he has spent countless hours in libraries perusing art history books and catalogues"
examine carefully or at length.
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| | Mathilde Collin "Expect the process to be stressful, even if your business is doing very well — and don't forget the "due diligence" that immediately follows, which is ten times worse." | | Paul Graham Classic read. "Speculative meetings are terribly costly if you're on the maker's schedule, though. Which puts us in something of a bind. Everyone assumes that, like other investors, we run on the manager's schedule. So they introduce us to someone they think we ought to meet, or send us an email proposing we grab coffee." | | Michael Jones "There is a reason the largest brands in the world have high margins. Sub 50% margin businesses over time have a very hard time scaling." | | Noam Schwartz and Alon Porat So we don't usually post blog entries by folks trying to get you to sign up for their service, but these guys have some moxie and oxy(moron). Enjoy the title of their post, "Manual Automation." The advice isn't half bad if you are trying to hack your way to building an online business without coding skills. | | Patrick Campbell "Your first step is to begin by building quantified buyer personas, which are data-driven profiles of your target customers. The objective is to create categories of relevant and lucrative customer segments to determine the cohort that's most important to deploy resources to pursue." | Remember operator billing?  Operator billing was once thought to be the perfect mobile commerce platform. But for various reasons, it failed to pick up traction. Learn why, and find out about the new future of m-commerce, here. | | | You are receiving this email because you believe that the best startup articles and videos are made by active members of the startup community. Startup Digest, © 2009-2016 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use. | | |
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