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The API-as-a-marketplace

Version One Ventures

As we’ve been spending time on B2B marketplaces and dev tools/platforms, we’ve come to realize that there’s an interesting sub-category that combines elements of both: the API-as-a-marketplace. What is an API-as-a-marketplace? Just like a traditional marketplace, an API-as-a-marketplace has two sides: suppliers and buyers.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. There doesn’t exist a web search API that has access to page content, parsed outlinks from the page, or even edit history.

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FLoC: Google’s Plan to Kill Off Third-Party Cookies

ConversionXL

They aggregate far more of your clicks across the Internet and power the hyper-relevant ads you see (e.g., Many users’ updates are aggregated (B) to form a consensus change (C) to the shared model, after which the procedure is repeated. sectional-sofas) to your browser via a new API. Image source ). Image source ).

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13 tech trends to adopt before the year’s end

The Next Web

APIs Are Everywhere! APIs use to be only for the big guys, but now you’re seeing MVPs include APIs and almost everyone on talk to that doesn’t have an API has one on the road map. Heck, even the White House has issued a directive that all departments need to build an API in 90 days.

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Understanding A Data Engineering Pipeline

The Startup Magazine

This can be done using various methods, such as scraping web pages or accessing APIs. This may involve cleaning up inaccuracies, standardizing designs, or aggregating multiple data sets. This can be done using various methods, such as scraping web pages or accessing APIs. First, data is extracted from one or more sources.

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Announcing our investment in Patch, a platform for negative emissions

Version One Ventures

The Patch API gives developers the opportunity to leverage data already captured to neutralize their carbon impact via a diverse selection of carbon sequestration projects. Earlier this year, we introduced the idea of an api-as-a-marketplace. The team is now looking for beta users for their API. Patch falls into this category.

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Access, Aggregation, and Other Big Data Challenges for Startups

ReadWriteStart

Elbaz identified several major hurdles that companies face around data: Findability Access Rights and Ownership Economics and Business Models Standards Integration and Aggregation Trust. These are challenges for any company, arguably, but for startups, they can be particularly daunting.