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Beauty On Demand

YoungUpstarts

This elusive ideal, something that resides in the eyes of the beholder, the ghost of aesthetic perception – the physical and mental feeling that grips and does not let go, Beauty goes by many names. Seeking to build an On-Demand platform for beauty needs of the masses? Getting your app in shape. Communication and tracking.

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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.

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A Bigger Truth About Restaurant Food Delivery

Both Sides of the Table

The problem for the restaurants is that the more successful the “aggregators” of customer demand become over time, the less power the restaurants themselves have individually. they just put up with the food delivery company fees. Customers were happy and restaurants focused on their in-store business.

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

View from Seed

We are currently seeing the most rapid collapse of retail since the Great Recession, due to the internet changing consumer demand and purchasing patterns. 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.

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13 tech trends to adopt before the year’s end

The Next Web

The name of the game now is quality content which keeps viewers watching past the golden 1-minute mark. Companies, products and technologies that successfully cut through the clutter and deliver meaningful value will be in high demand. YouTube has been putting more influence on user engagement. Raul Pla , SimpleWifi and UseABoat.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

For the last few years, there really hasn’t been a demand to innovate on top of the ecosystem that’s been built. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. The downside is that with so much venture and angel capital available, investors have been willing to fund the 10 th Groupon clone.

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

Entrepreneurs need to hit a happy medium with backers, not giving away too much but not making overly aggressive demands. Although the data is public, the startup may not have been able to manually aggregate that data on its own, or the owner of the website may expressly prohibit use of the data outside of the services the owner offers.