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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. it’s really a software business, not liquidity driven) and that B2C marketplaces could not be built under the giant momentum of eBay’s “ network effect. Start with aggregating scarce and in-demand inventory.

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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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