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Creative conservation: the disappearing song that could save a species

May06
by on May 6, 2014 at 9:11 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Videos

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Doug Levy is a staff copywriter and editor for the Shutterstock blog. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been adapted with permission. Last month, 400 people received an extremely limited-edition musical treat—a one-time 7-inch pressing of a previously unreleased song by indie-rock heroes Portugal. The Man that was unavailable in any other format. The release was notable for a lot more than its rarity, however. For one thing, it wasn’t just a song; it was also the basis of a very important natural conservation effort. For another, this particular record wasn’t designed to last. After…

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Alibaba files for its IPO with 618 million users and $5.55 billion in annual revenue

May06
by on May 6, 2014 at 8:52 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia

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Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba has filed for its US IPO. The company reported a massive 618 million users and $5.55 billion in revenue for fiscal 2013, which ran through March 31. According to the filing, Alibaba is seeking to raise as much as $1 billion, though that figure could change as the IPO date approaches. In fact, Alibaba’s public offering is expected to rank as the largest tech IPO to date. Alibaba touts itself as the “largest online and mobile commerce company in the world” in its Form F-1. It had $248 million in gross merchandise volume (GMV) in calendar 2013 from…

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Alibaba files for its IPO with 618 million users and $5.55 billion in annual revenue

May06
by on May 6, 2014 at 8:52 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia

Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba has filed for its US IPO. The company reported a massive 618 million users and $5.55 billion in revenue for fiscal 2013, which ran through March 31. According to the filing, Alibaba is seeking to raise as much as $1 billion, though that figure could change as the IPO date approaches. Alibaba touts itself as “largest online and mobile commerce company in the world” in its Form F-1. It had $248 million in gross merchandise volume (GMV) in calendar 2013 from its three retail marketplaces, Taobao, Tmall and Juhuasuan. While the initial draft of the F-1…

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Cells, pods, and squads: The future of organizations is small

May06
by on May 6, 2014 at 8:05 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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This post originally appeared on the iDoneThis blog. Think small and you will achieve big things. That’s the Yoda-esque, counterintuitive philosophy that nets Finnish game company Supercell revenues of millions of dollars a day. So really, how do you build a billion-dollar business by thinking small? One key is the company’s supercell organizational model. Autonomous teams, or “cells,” of four to six people position the company to be nimble and innovative. Similar modules — call them squads, pods, cells, startups within startups — are the basic components in many other nimble, growing companies, including Spotify and Automattic. The future, as Dave Gray argues in The…

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Cells, pods, and squads: The future of organizations is small

May06
by on May 6, 2014 at 8:05 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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This post originally appeared on the iDoneThis blog. Think small and you will achieve big things. That’s the Yoda-esque, counterintuitive philosophy that nets Finnish game company Supercell revenues of millions of dollars a day. So really, how do you build a billion-dollar business by thinking small? One key is the company’s supercell organizational model. Autonomous teams, or “cells,” of four to six people position the company to be nimble and innovative. Similar modules — call them squads, pods, cells, startups within startups — are the basic components in many other nimble, growing companies, including Spotify and Automattic. The future, as Dave Gray argues in The…

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