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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. In 2017 alone, we’ve seen widespread store closures or bankruptcies from apparel retailers, including: True Religion. It’s a $1T+ global industry undergoing tectonic shifts.

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

David Teten

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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Creating Competitive Advantage by Embracing Contingent Workforce

Transformify

With the current changes in the market today, businesses are more focused on the ways to meet the demands of their customers, irrespective of the new way of working of their remote employees and hybrid workforce. To stay in business and survive, business owners need to increase flexibility and rely on workforce on-demand.

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The Basics of Small Business Loans [WEBINAR]

Up and Running

More and more lenders are now coming in, and alternative lenders and companies like SmartBiz, are coming in and making this process much more … Using technology to make the process faster and easier. I think that there are lots of options available, though, that are coming up to meet the demand for new businesses.

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13 Of The Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make (That May Not Seem Like Mistakes At All)

YoungUpstarts

You can pour your heart and soul (and life savings) into a venture, do all your due diligence, toil 80- and 90-hour weeks, and just when you’re on the verge of a breakthrough, a dark horse competitor sweeps in and decimates your market share. Or a key vendor declares bankruptcy. Treating technology as a magic bullet.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Technology. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. more in Tech. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » |. The Wall Street Journal. Welcome, Logout. Customer Center. My Journal. Edition Home.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

I get approached about clean tech or biotech periodically – I don’t focus on these. In ad tech there’s Seth Levine at Foundry Group and both Dana Settle & Ian Sigelow at Greycroft. When I was reading the Fab.com website I noticed that the CEO refers to Fab’s “one thing” as being design.

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