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Designing a business model: How to create a new category within your industry

The most important factor to consider is alignment to your brand and values, says Aman Advani In 2014, our clothing company announced plans to largely transition out of traditional offline wholesale partnerships to focus on connecting directly with our consumers. Our rationale was simple: To create a new category in our industry, we couldn’t rely on the people who pushed...

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MaGIC’s Social Entrepreneurship Demo Day sees promising enterprises, aims to address social and environmental issues in Malaysia

Social entrepreneurs were mentored for four months by Google Head of Technology Prashant Pathmanaban and UNICEF Innovation Lead Chelsey Lepage, among others The Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre (MaGIC) recently held a Social Entrepreneurship (SE) Demo Day at MaGIC’s campus in Cyberjaya, Malaysia to mark the second cohort’s successful conclusion of its SE Accelerator Programme. Officially launched...

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Splice launches rent-to-own pricing model for software synths

Serum One by one, most software has succumbed to the cloud; Designers have Adobe, gamers have Steam, programmers have GitHub and now musicians have Splice. Splice is launching a rent-to-own pricing model for software synths. Starting today, musicians will be able to use Serum from X for Records, to their hearts content without any upfront fees.  The company likes to call their service a rental,… Read More

Tencent, Baidu, JD.com double down on Bitauto with US$550M investment

This is the third investment that Tencent and JD have made in the company Bitauto Holdings, a leading automotive information service in China, announced on Tuesday a US$550 million strategic investment from a consortium comprised of Tencent, Baidu and JD.com. A company statement noted that the investment would be made in cash, and go toward Bitauto’s e-commerce-related...

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Let’s meet in Columbus, Ohio next week

Ohio_State_Fair_Columbus This is going to be fun. I’ll be in Columbus, Ohio next week, Wednesday, August 10, and I’ll be holding a night of pitches and open mic shenanigans so bring your guitar. The event will be at O’Toole’s 4796 W Broad St, right off I-270. We’ll start at 7pm sharp with pitches so get there after work and at 8pm we’ll have an open stage with live music –… Read More

Accompany’s digital chief-of-staff application launches in beta

accompany iphone Many executives and employees have need for a role that’s basically a “chief of staff” — someone who keeps track of all the details about everyone they encounter and are headed off to meet in their professional careers. But there’s plenty of information that they might be missing out on, and as you head downstream to smaller companies those roles are just as… Read More