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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Most startups equate the process of fundraising to dating – founders have to typically kiss a lot of frogs until the find the right fit. Climate tech – We have a fair chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change if startups offer commercial solutions to decarbonize society or remove carbon from the atmosphere.

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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

VC Cafe

Watch this short clip (mixed with the normal banter between the hosts): The Race to Intimacy (credit: All In podcast) The new gen AI search companies A number of new startups are trying jump on the generative AI search wagon. Makes sense, as companies can adopt a SaaS model and not require huge scale to monetise via advertising.

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Picking the Most Important Features & APIs for Your Mobile App

ReadWriteStart

For multimedia capabilities, camera and video functionality lead the way with just over half of the respondents choosing these APIs. Least Desired Features/APIs. This trend is also evident in the survey results, as advertising and commerce functionality rounded out much of the middle and latter half of the rankings. Amazon 18%.

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The Semantic Web Opens a New Age for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are the first to deliver this, your startup might be the next Google! There are already many examples of startups edging into this space. Just think of the fertile ground all this opens for startups! This has been a long-time dream of Tim Berners-Lee , the man who (really) invented the World Wide Web.

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Can App.net Make It? On Dalton Caldwell’s Talk At SXSW.

YoungUpstarts

In the age of the advertiser supported social network, one person is trying to flip the script and create a paid social network. Some might dismiss Caldwell as a person not in touch with the necessity of advertisers to support a platform. Second, he ended up having to pull the API that developers were developing apps on.

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Why Twitter’s API Changes Screws Startups – And Twitter

YoungUpstarts

So I own a startup. But with these new API changes, I’m not sure how or even if we can stay in business. Now one of the things that makes my startup, Twythm ( [link] ), different is that you don’t have to authorize with Twitter using oAuth. I didn’t really look into the recent API changes.

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Shopify Guide — Here’s How to Become an Expert

ReadWriteStart

You have the following categories and subcategories to become the Shopify Expert: Marketing and Sales: Search engine optimization Email marketing Content marketing Search engine marketing & advertising Conversion rate optimization Analytics and tracking Sales channel expert Sales and marketing guide Online Shop Design: Store design or redesign (..)

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