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Pandemic Technology Transformations for Start-up Businesses

The Startup Magazine

Employing social distancing, new health and safety measures in the workplace and other commercial environments, and the imposition of travel restrictions have bought about this so-called “new normal” and new pandemic tech innovations as well. The lack of customer interaction has affected how businesses operate. The Move to E-Commerce.

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Why Amazon Is the Undisputed E-Commerce Growth Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

From meager beginnings selling books online back in 1994, Amazon is currently the largest e-commerce retailer and cloud computing platform in the world, and now dominates even the giant Walmart. In my role as a business advisor, I’ve long wondered how to pass their secrets along to other new ventures.

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10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

The Next Web

People told me it was impossible to have our product launch featured on one of the top tech blogs without spending $3,000 on some fancy PR agency. Back in 1994, when Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he had to raise money from 22(!) This is only relevant for non-technical founders like myself. secured their seed round in only 2 months.

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Ecommerce: How to Survive its Troughs

ReadWriteStart

On the topic of ecommerce, one wonders to what extent this business model is applicable, and where is it likely to end? It’s the extent of this phenomenon that has resulted in soaring businesses across the world. Tech companies realized it’s easier to host an ecommerce website than open a shop and pay for the warehouse as well.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. So contrary to the piece, it wasn’t VC were good at early stage technology, it was that they had newfound capital and a big exit window.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

As a CEO of a technological startup, I often need to find trustworthy information as quickly as possible. Moreover, I like inspiring myself with interesting online business models and Wikipedia is a great example of a user-generated content-based website. It led the way to a new kind of business model and changed the game.