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6 Building Blocks Make Amazon A Global Market Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

Every new business dreams of growing from a startup to a global market leader in a few years, like Amazon.com, but that goal is elusive. At Amazon, Jeff Bezos leads a relentless drive to invent dramatic new ways to delight customers, not waiting for customer demands or competitors to show the way.

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Airbnb’s availability as a marketplace and its aggregation of substantial consumer demand has actually meant certain forms of lodging have been newly built or converted into rooms for the primary purpose of listing on Airbnb. America in 2019) though in terms of nights booked Europe was 43% and N.

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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

New emerging technologies have been the key catalyst for in-demand jobs. According to tech recruiters , 2019 has brought a handful of tech jobs to the forefront, such as cyber security engineering, AI/machine learning and data scientists, to name a few. Global interest in Canadian tech jobs has increased by 58%.

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Riding The Digital Nomadism Wave In 2019

YoungUpstarts

It’s the 14 th of July, 2019 today. Do you know what was one of the biggest headlines – globally – just a few days ago? All told, globally, there were 18,000 jobs lost. If you’re setting up a business, you could even be faced with a situation where your products are seeing a slowdown in demand.

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 ” Let’s meet in the virtual world – Even as IRL events return, expect these virtual destinations to continue as a way to make events more accessible to a global audience, according to Ketchum. Fortnite alone made $1.8

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10 Realities Today Cause Startups To Bypass An IPO

Startup Professionals Musings

According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half 2019 global IPO activity slowdown continued, following an unusually quiet Q1 2019 as ongoing geopolitical tensions and trade issues dampened IPO sentiment. Startup founders don’t fit in a public company.

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

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Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. More and more angels will be minted as the 2019 IPO class emerges. 4/ Global Trade Wars Are For Real. This is again a much deeper topic to explore and I will do that in early 2019. 3/ Crypto Hibernation.