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Saturday Startup Spotlight: Swayy

Austin Startup

They’re a carefully-curated clothing aggregator, with an emphasis on creating customized shopping experiences. Rajya : We’ve met and talked to a lot of people who are doing B2B, but meeting B2C people is really key for us. There’s not a lot of B2C retail tech that we’ve been able to meet in Austin.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. to motivate their angel community to support their startups. 6) Negotiate deal.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

They're going strong , and constantly adapting their platform to users' changing needs for information and social media aggregation. PriceMinister, a site for C2C/B2C sales of new and used goods (at a fixed price) is the top e-commerce platform in France (recently surpassing eBay.fr and Amazon.fr). It has infiltrated the U.K.,

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

At Kindred Bravely, we have two goals: creating maternity and nursing clothes that are beautiful, useful, and comfortable, and building a community of moms who support and encourage each other on the motherhood journey. And “aesthetic” was a word the theatre community used all the time – I honestly just loved how it sounded!

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Digital Marketplaces Becoming a Viable Small Business Channel

Duct Tape Marketing

eBay aggregated buyers and sellers of stuff, mostly stuff in the attic and garage, and took a fee on the sale. Niche markets – Some marketplaces build communities interested in very specific types of items. eBay was one of the first to crack the marketplace code online. Fulfillment – Marketplaces can become a fulfillment center.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Investors are also mining for leads such sources as: – product crowdfunding sites ( Indiegogo *); – tech communities ( Producthunt ); – angel group platforms ( Gust ); – expert networks (e.g., 1) Manage the firm .

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Startup Shootaround: Inside a VC Team Meeting on the Drones Hype

View from Seed

The most prolific type of drone company right now are these consultancy-type businesses that range all the way from two guys who are ex-fighter pilots who love to fly drones and get commissioned to do various things with them up to a large-scale aggregation of drone service providers. So in that case, you’re not actually buying the drone.