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7 Ways To Survive The Retail Customer Shift To Online

Startup Professionals Musings

What neither group seems to fully comprehend is that retail needs to fundamentally change to succeed, far beyond the addition of an online component, to meet the experience expectations of today’s generation, an oversupplied global marketplace, and technology for instant pricing and distribution.

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In Q4 2022, founders face tough choices

VC Cafe

The top 20 tech billionaires globally have lost $480 billion on paper in the past year. This is largely due to several major stock market crashes and global economic uncertainties. TVPI = total value to paid in capital (paper gains) DPI = distributed to paid-in capital (real cash gains, paid out).

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The Great Retail Reinvention: How the Internet Is Reshaping the Way We Buy Clothing

View from Seed

It’s a $1T+ global industry undergoing tectonic shifts. In 2017 alone, we’ve seen widespread store closures or bankruptcies from apparel retailers, including: True Religion. The old brands and distribution channels are dead or dying. Apparel is currently one of the most fascinating categories within the Everyday Economy.

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Amazon Redshift Too Slow or Crashing? BlazingDB Performs

Austin Startup

Massive Scale with Unprecedented Speed BlazingDB offers a massively distributed, “cloud first”, high performance SQL database that achieves performance gains on the largest workloads and datasets at extraordinarily competitive costs. 2017 is the Year of Benchmarks & Customer Traction BlazingDB has blazed aggressively into 2017.

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The four waves of crypto disruption: where are they today? 

Version One Ventures

But you only have to talk to people from high inflation countries like Argentina or Venezuela to understand the appeal of a globally-accessible and permissionless digital currency. In the past year, we learned that Bitcoin probably has a large enough worldwide distribution that it’s hard to stop.

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Understanding Virtual Data Rooms And Their Significance Today

YoungUpstarts

A 2012 study done by IBISWorld revealed that VDRs experienced a steady growth of about 17 percent annually as a result of technological advancements as well as the growth of global demand for these storage services. trillion between 2012 and 2017 respectively. In the year 2015, global companies spent over $4.2 Human Resources.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” of 3,981 VC funds below $2b in size returned at least 2X Distributions to Paid-In Capital (2X) or more. What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. .