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Why Amazon bought MGM, TikTok replacing LinkedIn, and how to raise $11m in your first company

Paul Brescia
May 21, 2021
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Source: AAP.

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Every week, SmartCompany Plus brings you The Best of Everything, From Everywhere. This week, we’ve brought you seven ways your hybrid home/office model could fail, why Amazon bought MGM, and LinkedIn’s latest social competitor in the young talent searching market: TikTok.

Want to know how a first-time, solo female founder raised $11m in seed funding? Check out the last link.


Why Amazon is paying nearly $9 billion for MGM and James Bond

Amazon has spent many billions on video without much to show for it, and thinks owning a studio — and, crucially, the rights to the intellectual property the studio owns — could help.


7 ways a hybrid work model could fail (and how to avoid them)

Before you rush headlong into yet another evolution of work, make sure you’re set up to succeed.


Could TikTok replace LinkedIn for companies searching for young talent?

The platform is known to be more unvarnished than LinkedIn in how its users present themselves, which is exactly what HR managers want.


How I raised a $11M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech moonshot

Celine Halioua covers how she achieved it, step-by-step, and includes the mistakes she made, so you can avoid them.

 

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Paul Brescia
Paul Brescia is a freelance journalist and regular contributor to SmartCompany Plus. You can follow him on twitter: @pwbrescia

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