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The Great Retail Reinvention: How the Internet Is Reshaping the Way We Buy Clothing

View from Seed

We are currently seeing the most rapid collapse of retail since the Great Recession, due to the internet changing consumer demand and purchasing patterns. The old brands and distribution channels are dead or dying. Most apparel purchases are now in some way influenced by the internet. The Biggest Opportunities in Apparel.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

And if you accept that premise then you have to accept that the future of the Internet will be dominated by video. Traditional video had very high costs of distribution due to limited time slots of broadcast TV (we only had enough spectrum to support 3-4 channels). But distribution is now unlimited. Much of it already is.

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Internet/Media: 5 things that will define 2011

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Some observations from Bipul Sinha about the internet and media industry in 2011. With over half a billion users and open graph integration, Facebook is the Internet with social graph at its core. The aggregation of such high-intent traffic is what makes Google a formidable force on the Internet. Year of Social Utilities.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. And for the record, that’s per month not total in aggregate! The future of the Internet is video. Distribution costs have, too.

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Using affiliate marketing and the Internet to boost your company’s revenue

The Next Web

In this Internet age, a company sells products or services via an online store, app, or subscription service. By opening fewer stores you decrease costs in renting real estate, distributing products to your stores, and hiring employees for every location in every area you’re operating in.

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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. Smart Contracts – Powering the internet-native financial system, smart contract networks could generate fees of $450bn in 2030.

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Work Is Love Made Visible

YoungUpstarts

billion people living on Earth, we technically have enough food – it is just not equally distributed (which by no means is an easy problem to solve). Nithya, together with a small team, developed an Internet-connected temperature sensor which travels with the vaccine fridge through the cold chain. Today, with about 7.2