“I have this pair of headphones that I bought from the Tik TOK shop... they're $40 knockoff... noise canceling at which they are great.”
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Said on The Vergecast
“He persuaded a guy who owned a shoe shop … to let Virgin use it rent-free … there were cushions, headphones, free tea … you could sit there listening to music for hours without any pressure to buy”
Richard Branson · Great Business Stories · Richard Branson: 1950-1993
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What was described
negotiated rent-free use of a shoe shop’s upstairs space for a record shop, adding cushions, headphones and free tea to create a lounge-like environment
Said nearby on the same subject
“When you're running your business out of your spare bedroom… you either meet people in their home or a cafe… we wanted a safe space… we got a shop.”
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Simon Dean
Small Business Sorted with Kay & Crystal: Practical Advice for Australian Business Owners ·
“They owned a motorcycle shop for 32 years and used everything they made from business to buy property, mainly buying and holding.”
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Said on Australian Property Investor
“We’re mainly in Azure Shop using Azure OpenAI… testing in GCP with Vertex AI, also using their Anthropic models because we can use GCP as the broker, and we know that the data will stay with us”
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Jason Ward
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