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The Résumé Couldn’t Teach Anyone Anything
Talentsky took an executive recruiter's habit - asking what people have actually done - and built a professional network around achievements, mentors and one-hour workshops.
Strategic opened the magazine. The room still has a price.
Orla Clancy turned a pandemic-era magazine into a network for communication leaders. Its revealing move: make the ideas free, then charge for publishing access, professional development and time with peers.
OXBC’s £99 proposition: keep the right people in the room
Born from an Oxford blockchain course, OXBC turned a shared education into a membership network. Its story shows what introductions can accomplish - and where collective enthusiasm needs a harder question.
NewtonX
NewtonX is a New York-based B2B market research and intelligence company that connects businesses to hard-to-reach, identity-verified experts. Instead of relying on a fixed panel, its AI-driven Graph scans more than 1.1 billion professionals across 140+ industries to custom-recruit the exact decision-makers a research brief requires, then runs surveys, interviews, and AI-moderated studies on top. Founded in 2016 by former McKinsey consultants Sascha Eder and Germain Chastel with Anuja Ketan, NewtonX serves Fortune 500 companies, top management consultancies, and financial institutions that need trustworthy, fraud-resistant data to make high-stakes decisions.
Stagetime
Stagetime is the professional network for the performing arts - a single hub where artists, agents, artistic administrators and companies build multimedia profiles, connect with 18,000+ industry peers, post opportunities, and manage auditions and applications end to end. Founded by opera singer and designer Jennie Moser after she grew tired of stitching together websites, PDFs and social feeds to chase gigs, the Bloomington, Indiana company replaces the field's scattered tools with one accessible community for showcasing talent and finding work.