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Behind the Scenes at QVC: Lights, Camera, Customers

By Julia Pimsleur, Contributor

I recently went on QVC to sell my language learning product for kids, Little Pim and got a peek behind the curtain of the most successful 24-hour shopping network in the world ($7.8 billion in annual sales). While I admit to never having watched QVC before my SVP of Customer Acquisition, Alyson, cooked up the idea of turning me into the Vanna White of language teaching for kids, I now feel a bit like I have been admitted to a private club of Immediate Gratification and I don’t ever want to go back to holding meetings at Starbucks. …read more

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How Venture Capital Can Give your Business a Turbocharge

By Julia Pimsleur, Contributor

Raising venture capital has changed just about everything at Little Pim. We only closed on the final tranche of our round in January, so it’s still pretty new, and despite the sometimes onerous requirements (quarterly reports, audit, etc.) it’s pretty fantastic. I like to think of venture capital as the final “P” we needed to scale up our business. …read more
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