Niche E-Commerce in Textbooks: ClassBook CEO Tony Pfister (Part 6)

Sramana: If a student buys a physical book, you ship it from the warehouse. However, what happens on the back end, if the school has implemented iPads and students need to get books that are readable on iPads, How are you procuring digital books for an iPad format given that Apple normally sells them through

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Roundtable Recap: June 4 – Winners Of First BlueSnap-Elance Finals

During today’s roundtable, we had the first of two finals for the BlueSnap-Elance contest that has been running for the past month or so. Winners will be receiving 1M/1M scholarships for one year. TravelGenie First, Swarna Ellison from New Jersey pitched TravelGenie, a deal site for business travelers looking to find both local concierge services

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128th 1M/1M Roundtable Recording On June 4, 2012

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of the roundtable with some of the finalists of the BlueSnap Elance Entrepreneur Development Contest here:

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Niche E-Commerce in Textbooks: ClassBook CEO Tony Pfister (Part 5)

Sramana: What is the financing strategy you have followed from 2002 to 2012 as you have built ClassBook.com? Tony Pfister: We have been investing everything back into the business. We took the approach that a healthy business would equal a healthy life. I like the idea of bootstrapping as much as possible. Eventually you hit

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Catching Up On Readings: Special Monday Roundtable

Entrepreneurs are invited to attend two FREE online roundtable competitions next week. Digital commerce entrepreneurs are competing for 12 scholarships to the 1M/1M program for entrepreneurs as part of the BlueSnap–Elance Entrepreneur Development Program. Monday, June 4, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT, register here. Thursday, June 7, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT, register

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Niche E-Commerce in Textbooks: ClassBook CEO Tony Pfister (Part 4)

Sramana: Who pays for the initial inventor, you or the schools? Tony Pfister: We pay for the inventory, which requires us to be a very efficient operation. We are good at managing inventory levels for schools, and now that a lot of curriculum is all digital, we will have to adjust our approach there as

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