In the Internet space, it’s so easy to get caught up in the big success story that comes piped in from Pando or TechCrunch that shows how a company went from zero to hero in an obscenely short amount of time. While it’s true that, on occasion, the ‘up and to the right’ explosive growth …
From day one, we’ve built TakeLessons right here in the heart of San Diego. Over the past few years, I’ve personally seen an explosion of activity as more and more people become interested in working for themselves, starting a company, and running after their dream. Compared to yesterday, San Diego’s technology and innovation scene has …
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Post by Steven Cox.
Happy to see TakeLessons mentioned in Michael Wolf’s article on how new companies are disrupting Craigslist (which, in turn, have disrupted newspapers). In the article, Wolf discusses how the new breed of vertical marketplaces are able to gain traction by providing value greater than a listing. Our general thesis is that the next generation of …
TakeLessons.com gets a little shout out from USA Today for Online Marketplaces. Read More »
Here is a research note written by 15 year old Matthew Robbson while he was interning at Morgan Stanley. What's interesting is his thoughts on newspapers, pc gaming, and the internet. For the internet, he says that kids basically use social networking and search. Everything else? Not so much. If you're in a business that …
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Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking for the Social Media Breakfast San Diego group on how our company, TakeLessons is using social media in the digital world to effectively build trust and engage with music lovers on a hyper-localized level. Thanks to Adam and Erin of Digital Operative (a wonderful San Diego social …
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“Steven Cox stopped by to tell us all about his San Diego based startup, TakeLessons.com which, as the name simply implies, is an online marketplace for finding music & voice instructors in over 400 cities in the US. Steven and his team are working extremely hard and have provided a service that simply didn’t exist …
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Over the weekend, I was thinking about how to make our site more valuable to our users. We have two of them – customers (students) and teachers. We have been wrestling with the idea of how much content our site should have since, in all candor, we don't make a cent from web content. We …
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