NewBizViews http://www.newbizviews.com Focuses on entrepreneurs, innovative business models, emerging secular trends and new approaches to fields like finance, social enterprise, media and business policy Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:52:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 NBV Entrepreneur: Jordan Goldberg and stickK.com http://www.newbizviews.com/2010/09/03/nbv-entrepreneur-jordan-goldberg-and-stickk-com/ http://www.newbizviews.com/2010/09/03/nbv-entrepreneur-jordan-goldberg-and-stickk-com/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:52:11 +0000 Editors http://www.newbizviews.com/?p=1906

NBV had the opportunity to discuss the founding and future of stickK.com with Jordan Goldberg the Company’s CEO. StickK helps individuals achieve their goals through the use of person contracts. The company was founded by Jordan and two professors from Yale.

1. To start out, could you give us an overview of what stickK is all about?

stickK.com is

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Discount department and warehouse stores like Walmart use their market power to buy products from suppliers in bulk – thereby lowering purchasing price and distribution costs.  The cost-savings can then be transferred on

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Without a doubt, users should tread

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