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Walmart’s Been On A Buying Spree. Which Company Could It Acquire Next?

Up and Running

acquisition of Jet.com in August 2016 transformed the company beyond the addition of the Jet platform. While Walmart hasn’t acquired in this area yet, its internal initiatives and IP show interest. Select investors: Comcast Ventures, True Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, First Round Capital. Walmart’s $3.3B

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Going Global: 8 Things to Consider If You Want to Expand Your Business

Up and Running

Having a good grasp of the local culture can not only help develop your understanding of local customers and customs, but can help avoid any embarrassing or potentially damaging mistakes when dealing with partners and suppliers. See Also: How to Find a Business Partner. For example, it is customary in Germany to use Mr., Mrs., or Ms.,

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Austin AI startups raised more than $50 Million in 2017

Austin Startup

The enterprise focus has a tough time showing their own IP versus the vertical business solutions have limited total addressable market. Million in their Series A led by Khosla ventures in Nov 2016. NarrativeDX closed their Series A led by LiveOak Venture Partners in Austin and HealthX Ventures in May 2017.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Investors will ask management what their “AI strategy” is before investing and will be wary of companies that don’t have one (Fred Wilson, USV). Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ).

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Why Your Company NEEDS to Start Playing Pokémon Go

crowdSPRING Blog

As TechCrunch reports: App analytics company SensorTower used its predictive model of the App Store and Google Play, which takes hundreds of thousands of data points from its partners to generate an estimate of the download numbers Pokémon Go is seeing: it’s been downloaded a total of around 7.5 David Olsen (@DDsD) July 9, 2016.

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Israel & Japan: Konnichi Wa to Collaboration, Sayonara to Stagnation

VC Cafe

It is not even a top 10 trading partner. A series of high profile business delegations to Israel ensued in 2016. Also, patent review is slower than Europe, as noted by Maier Fenster of IP firm Ehlich & Fenster in his presentation IP in Japan. Japan is the world’s #3 economy…but not for Israel.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

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This idea of snackable content format pivoted to a video product in June 2016. Several years ago, my partner and I were busting our tails for 18 hours a day, but we weren’t really running our home services business. an international voice over IP company, was sold to Yahoo! Thanks to Anurag Dwivedi, Rocketium ! #4-

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