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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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Curadebt Review – Should You Use Them?

The Startup Magazine

Before using the services of any company, it is always good to look at the consumer reviews. Reviews are especially important when looking to engage the services of a debt management company. That’s why even for a company of high repute like Curadebt, it’s worth checking out the negative reviews. Their website is very basic.

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How New Technologies Enabled These Young Entrepreneurs To Threaten The Traditional Retail Landscape

YoungUpstarts

Why are there so many digital commerce companies which can challenge large traditional retailers and even force them into bankruptcy? One of the cofounders explains how he witnessed first-hand while working at a bank that a lot of traditional retailers were in trouble as internet retailers ate away their margins.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

Tech startups are at the other extreme. The gulf has widened with the proliferation of social Internet / user-generated content and mobile application startups. Second in importance only to talented people, IP in all its forms is the key asset comprising most of the value of any tech startup. Instagram is a textbook example.)

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23 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I owned a mortgage company when the mortgage industry crashed and lost almost everything pushing me to the brink of personal bankruptcy. I realized that this was an opportunity to solve a huge problem for an entire generation of parents and their kids using technology. Thanks to Jen Ohlson, Interactive Health Technologies ! #5-

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

This is the time it takes for a bankruptcy or asset sale to occur. I believe that huge financial, productivity and technical gains come from new innovation rather than derivative thinking. He said that data suggests people prefer to “buy high, sell low.&# And so it goes in tech investing. Or a quick flip.

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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.