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Four Building Blocks for the New “Second Industrial Revolution”

Rob Go

Our recent investment in Farmeron is leveraging the rising availability of data being produced in the farming and agricultural sector, and other companies are similarly aggregating and making accessible oceanographic data. But this is happening in massive areas that we never think about. They are far more foundational to what is to come.

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8 strategic hacks for building marketplace liquidity

The Next Web

By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving. The prevailing consensus at the time was that B2B marketplaces were too hard (e.g. Start with aggregating scarce and in-demand inventory. Investment stopped, and entrepreneurs focused on other categories.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

It’s not for a lack of technological effort from both startups and huge companies in all of mobile payments’ incarnations – SMS, mobile web, native apps, NFC, etc. NFC, SMS). They picked online, because signing up online B2B partnerships is quick, easy and capital light. A new form of user authentication (e.g.

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270+ Tools for Running a Business Online

mashable.com

b2b CRM – A Web-based CRM that manages contacts, activities, and your sales pipeline, and integrates with Outlook and Word. Database, File Storage & Information Management Pixily – An online service that lets you aggregate, organize, find and share your documents.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

. - Rich and award-winning line of location-based applications for the end-users (VAS) • Maps and LBS APIs for developers as a CSP branded developers zone, enabling more apps in portal and increased usage of data, SMS and MMS. Logia has the unique combination of being both a content aggregator and a billing aggregator.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. add mobile and sms to your app. aggregation. Launchbit â?? online web site class for novices.