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Extended Requests for Startups 2025 list

VC Cafe

AI Agents & Software Personalised AI Agent Development: Create AI agents that can understand user intent, plan actions, and improve through continuous learning, with a focus on specific verticals like travel, healthcare, or finance. This request calls for a rethinking of how documents are created and distributed for e-signature using AI.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. By aggressively launching a free to use service, Alibaba’s Taobao quickly became the leading person-to-person trading site in China.

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Innovation Outposts and The Evolution of Corporate R&D

Steve Blank

and concentrated on a single part of the supply chain – importing, distribution, wholesale, retail. These growing national companies were challenged to figure out how to organize an organization of increased complexity that resulted from their large size, and geographic scale as well as their horizontal and vertical integration.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00

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Not All Traffic Is Created Equal

www.pakman.com

To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. There is no “Facebook of China.”

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East meets West: Why Chinese app developers are targeting US smartphone owners

The Next Web

China is the world’s largest country with more than 1.3 Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China. On the other hand, in China, most of the users, the majority, are not well educated and in big cities working in foreign companies. That’s why the free business model is so popular in China. billion people.

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Learning From The OG iPod

Mucker Lab

Most brilliant “Internet of Things” ideas are quicksand for capital unless you have the branding, vertical integration and customer lock-in that Apple achieved. However, the rise of the Internet equalized if not flipped the ratio as the web (and mobile) created a new product category and distribution platform.