Dollar Stores Struggle to Adapt to the E-Commerce Age
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Ep 5: The First Viral Website: “Hot or Not”
Shaan Puri: Okay, so what is this? So something that entertains me. And so I wanted to create a podcast which was first and foremost, just an excuse to hang out with people who I haven’t been able to hang out with as much. So, now one way is to say, “Hey, let’s go grab a coffee.” And the other way is to say, “What if we recorded this so that other people could be a fly on the wall and hear stories or chatter about random stuff.” And I’m not trying to do it educationally. So for me it’s stories.
The Million-Dollar Business You Can Build From Your Living Room
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How to Build a $750+ Million Business: 6 Takeaways from Jack Smith
Private equity giant Blackstone acquired the video advertising startup Vungle last week in a reported $750m deal.
Prepaid Phone Service Moves Into the Mainstream
Billions of people looking for reliable, unlimited data at reasonable rates are expected to help the prepaid phone business grow by 4% a year through 2026. It might not sound like huge growth, but consider the market:
Warren Buffett for Startups, Andrew Wilkinson
Andrew Wilkinson has sold only two of the 20-plus companies he has founded. In a different world, one where private equity groups and hedge funds didn’t act like the private equity groups and hedge funds they are, he might have sold all of them.
Selling Bibles to Young People: How One Company Created a Niche Market for Fancy Bibles
What you need to know: Inspired by faith and minimalist design, a pair of Christian millennials launched Alabaster, a photography-focused Bible publishing company. Early investment capital came from Daniel Fong, founder of $70m furniture business Million Dollar Baby.
How Coffee Meets Bagel Disrupted the $3B Dating App Industry
Just the thought of online dating elicits a collective groan among anyone who’s done it. And that’s precisely why Dawoon Kang and her two sisters founded Coffee Meets Bagel: They wanted to improve one of the most anxiety-filled stages of people’s lives with technology that makes them forget the pain points.
Weddings Go Micro
Your future summers may include far fewer wedding invites, and it won’t be because you’re less popular. The wedding industry, long overdue for disruption, is trending smaller and more affordable as millennials rethink costs and strict traditions that were once considered mandatory.