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The Future Of Retail And America In The Post-COVID World

YoungUpstarts

Walmart reported online grocery sales of over $900 million in March, an increase of 21% from February 2020 and an astounding 99% increase from March 2019. In our view, retailers must absorb the additional costs of the new distribution requirements if they want to be part of the future retail landscape.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

ReadWriteStart

For this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we turned the spotlight on Latin and Central America. Entrepreneurs from Latin and Central America were given first priority to pitch their businesses at today's roundtable co-hosted by Innova Tiquicia and Startup Weekend Costa Rica.

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The Spending Power Of Millennials And Industries We’re Not Killing

YoungUpstarts

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. That number is only expected to grow, surpassing one trillion USD by 2020. How does that compare to other generations?

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What does it mean to be Latinx in Tech Today?

Austin Startup

As we head to 2020, Latinx will be the MAJORITY in the US. Moderator Josué Gonzále z, Latin America and Canada Sales Leader of Cloud Sales and Customer Growth at Google Cloud , asked panelists to describe the ways they’ve seen diversity change in the past five years. I've never been around this many Latinx in tech.

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Opportunity is everywhere: we’re now investing worldwide

Version One Ventures

We ended up doing three more investments in April 2020 ( our busiest month ever ) and a total of 12 investments over the past year (our busiest 12-month period ever). You’ve probably heard the phrase “Talent is equally distributed. That means it’s probably time for us to revisit the geographical focus in our investment thesis.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

Shortly after I graduated from college in 1990, America entered a recession. Congratulations, class of 2020. In 2020, entering the real world means staying at home, sheltering in place. So what’s the YouTube or the Facebook of 2020? But for you, in 2020, when jobs are hard to come by, what does that mean?

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

trillion in 2020. In 2019 and 2020, we saw hundreds of millions of dollars in non-dilutive funding go to Texas startups, most of which had never worked with the government before. Pepper Snapple, Frito-Lay PepsiCo, Pizza Hut, and Toyota North America. Six of the ten cities who gained the most during COVID were in Texas.

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