Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

We realized that operating a business in distributed markets presented multi-city coordination efforts that we weren’t prepared for. were more distributed. So it makes me laugh to this day when I talk with a journalist or potential investor in the company and they ask flippantly, “How is MakeSpace a technology company?”

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. When technology changes are rapid you want the founder to continue to run the company. is closing rapidly.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

But as impressive as its technology is, the Apple’s smartwatch has been a product looking for a solution. Google has been investing in a broad healthcare portfolio, Amazon has been investing in pharmacy distribution and Apple…? by the end of 2018. When I was a kid, this was science fiction. They are supposed to ship in the U.S.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

Before diving into yet another year and list of predictions for enterprise in 2018, we’d like to recap a few thoughts and moments from 2017. In other words, today is the slowest rate of technological change you will ever experience in your life and doing nothing is worse than doing something.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2020

According to the numbers published by the Small Business Administration in 2018, 20% of these enterprises fail in their first year. The opportunity here is in improving communication channels through the plethora of tools that technology and the internet offer. Adding value can also mean reimagining your product distribution.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The travel industry has the opportunity to sink or swim, prompting industry leaders to explore new ways to satisfy customers, including tapping into the potential of blockchain technology. According to Lexington Law , in 2018, Millennials in America had an average expenditure of $47,112 and they pumped $600 billion into the US economy.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2020

As transportation becomes more intertwined with technology, there is a shift away from traditional services and towards startups with radical ideas. . The ride-sharing market is expected to achieve a growth rate of more than 20 percent between 2018-2025. Transportation is becoming all about ease, accessibility, and technology.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 6, 2019

Here are 4 companies that have faced legal action due to the distribution of a toxic or otherwise dangerous product. These infamous legal issues should convince startups or any business that it is their obligation to distribute products they have confidence in. Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide. Takata’s Airbags.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2018

Investors, for example, usually want short-term profit distribution versus re-investing for the future. Contingency plans make sense in every case these days, since technology and market factors are moving fast. Marty Zwilling First published on CayenneConsulting on 07/24/2018. Only you will be held accountable.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Competition from other startups and established incumbents, constraints on time and capital, and limited access to talent and technology resources are just a few of the hurdles nearly every first-time founder faces while trying to build a business. In the startup world, opportunities are fleeting, and obstacles are ubiquitous.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

An eMarketer study estimated that, in 2018, 25% of U.S. In March 2018 , LinkedIn video ads became available to all companies. The B2B video examples below were distributed on LinkedIn or other social channels, as well as YouTube. They highlighted how their technology helps deliver medical care at a children’s hospital.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

It’s only our second year on the market and our biggest accomplishment of the year is launching the deluxe version of our LUCKY Life Planner 2018. We’re very new to the industry, and while we’re passionate about the product, there have been obstacles every step of the way – production, shipping, distribution, etc.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. When told of Musk’s comment’s, Buffett acknowledged that technological change has made moats more vulnerable but not irrelevant. Musk wasn’t impressed: I am super super serious — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 5, 2018.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

That could be a standard sale contract, i.e. buy and sell single items or batches, or a partnership agreement, i.e. contract manufacturing, sales agency, or distribution agreement. Globartis was founded only in 2018 but has been growing rapidly since then. B2B Marketplaces in Asia.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

We may be waiting for 5G in the UK, but China has been studying G6 since 2018 and started properly testing it with the support of its big national telecommunications companies in 2020, according to editors at inc.com. B2B enterprises would have to use various digital technologies like workflow management software to attain these goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Big technology breakthroughs don’t always correlate directly to the mind of customers, so your challenge is the translation. Make that a way to bridge a big technology change to customers and employees. A new technology usually needs a business model that is also a paradigm shift.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2019

Nowadays most coupons are digital distributing online and many are delivered to highly targeted audiences. Maintain the enthusiasm to learn as much engineering technologies as possible, and be strict with yourself as a real full-stack engineer. Holiday online spending increased by 16.6%

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Texas is the most promising technology investment opportunity in the United States and Capital Factory is going to turbocharge it. What will it take for Texas to produce startups of that kind of scale and impact in technology, food, retail, entertainment, energy, education, real estate, transportation and health?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. Vested Technology spent $17k on their MVP. Prior to his role at Vested Technology, co-founder and CEO Akash Srivastava worked on Wall Street.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

They are either building on some differentiated technology or more likely a differentiated data source – ideally a data source that is generated from within their own application, where the data is collected by default as people use their product. Like everyone else, we went distributed overnight in March 2020.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In the past year, we learned that Bitcoin probably has a large enough worldwide distribution that it’s hard to stop. It’s becoming increasingly clear that decentralized technology is still very early and a lot of heavy lifting is needed for projects that require true scalability. .

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. Before their launch in 2018, Woodhead faced a challenge. Product launches are one phase in the product lifecycle. Image source ). Test launch tiny products.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We argued extensively in our book, Blitzscaling , that these strategies and tactics describe why Silicon Valley Bay Area – which has a population of less than 4 million – generates such a massively disproportionate number of global technology companies. Distribution. Distribution. High Gross Margins. Overall Blitzscalability.

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Company must then decide where to distribute cost savings – options include; Increase profit margins. Reinvest funds for growth (New Product / Distribution / Promotion / R &D). Competitors respond and also reduce price to maintain market share either by adopting similar technology or cutting margins.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing. That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future. Probably, yes as well.

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Board Effect

APRIL 17, 2019

When the board wants to increase the amount of a dividend distribution. Approved: March 4, 2018 Location: 4200 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago. . IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed by name and affixed the seal of said corporation, this 4th day of March, 2018. _.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

It’s also important to say that while many successful technology companies have been venture-backed--Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook come to mind-- it’s not solely a funding method for technology companies. but globally. The other evolution we’ve seen - and I alluded to it in the previous question - is the nature of funding rounds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2019

Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Manufacturing is a global industry with complex and widely distributed value chains and a large amount of data available. Every day, we create 2.5 Global manufacturing.

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View from Seed

MAY 28, 2020

Advances in technology and changing consumer preferences have long been transforming the way food is created, distributed, and consumed. The food supply chain has been rattled with distribution shifting from restaurants to grocery and with food production bottlenecks resulting from fewer employees at work.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing. That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future. Probably, yes as well.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Cleargraph (Distributed Systems) joined Coinbase to continue their work on human-friendly decentralized identity. tselo/, meaning ‘purpose’ in Esperanto) shared their mission with the world – to use blockchain technology to advance financial inclusion and build a monetary system that creates the conditions for prosperity for all. .

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 5, 2018 SXSW has announced 50 finalists for the SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event. A finalist in Payment and FinTech Technology category, Pawame is lighting up rural communities in Africa with clean, affordable and reliable solar home systems. What does Pawame hope to accomplish in 2018? In the U.S.,

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2018

It is a once-in-a-lifetime creation that presented our lives with such a breakthrough, especially in financial technology. In such cases, cryptocurrency and any blockchain can help because it is a distributed ledger where data is stored across thousands of nodes or computers connected to a network all around the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Of course you’ve probably known of Meg as a business leader for many years, formerly as President and CEO of Hewlett Packard and the CEO of eBay before that, but since late 2018 she has been the CEO of Quibi (joining founder Jeffrey Katzenberg as the first employee). Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2018

You need to find investors for funding, vendors for volume manufacturing, processes for repeatable execution, as well as marketing and distribution to attract customers far beyond your pilot rollout. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/03/2018. Scaling a business is fraught with risk and unknowns.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. Vested Technology spent $17k on their MVP. Prior to his role at Vested Technology, co-founder and CEO Akash Srivastava worked on Wall Street.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Most frequently people use this phrase in association with personal technology devices (heart-monitors, exercise accessories, sleep monitors, etc) that allow consumers to take direct control of their health information. Technology to the Rescue? The subject of the “consumerization of healthcare” has been around for many years.

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