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2016 VC Half-Thoughts: The Industry Has Shifted Back to Investing in Technology, Not Business Models

Hunter Walker

In the spirit of clearing out some half-formed thoughts, one takeaway is that we’re again in a period where the most exciting investment opportunities possess real technology risk. Observing a handful of companies, such as Uber, Airbnb, Warby Parker, founders were taking those models and trying to apply them to other verticals.

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The 4 Hottest Industries To Start a Business in For 2020

Up and Running

Every person, company, and product relies on transportation daily—creating a powerful demand. As transportation becomes more intertwined with technology, there is a shift away from traditional services and towards startups with radical ideas. . The global on-demand transportation market is expected to reach USD $304.97

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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. More importantly, it makes no demands of you to stand and deliver your weekly customer development progress in front of your peers.

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Entrepreneurs Court New Super-Angel Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Venture capital dispensed quarterly to startups actually declined again in the first quarter of 2013 to $6.3 Due to the struggling economy as well, traditional individual Angel investors haven’t been able to fill the gap. Technology costs are plummeting, meaning you can do more with less.

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Revenue Growth For Lenovo In 2Q15 Obscures Unfamiliar Challenges For Its PC And Smartphones Business: TBR

YoungUpstarts

by Jack Narcotta, Devices Analyst at Technology Business Research. billion – masks how sagging performance from its PC business wiped out the momentum Lenovo had generated since 2013 and has forced Lenovo to reset its profit and revenue growth expectations for its enterprise and mobile device businesses.

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When Third is First

thebarefootvc

While credit was relatively easy to obtain in the developed markets for much of the last 20 years, the 2008 economic crisis made it more difficult for even the middle class and small businesses to obtain loans. The ethos behind microcredit has reached a market well beyond the poor, rural woman in an emerging market.

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5 Lessons Learned Launching a Startup With No Plan, No Cash, and No MBA

Up and Running

Just a few weeks after we finished the website, this business had paying customers coming from Google search and free Craigslist postings. Within a few months, my wife went from teaching a few classes via Skype part time, to teaching full time, to hiring a pair of teachers to help her keep up with demand. Do people use those features?

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