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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care. Technological Convergence – The global equity market value associated with disruptive innovation could increase to 60% by 2030.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

However, most countries don’t have sufficient population to support scale with just their local market and ultimately need to be global players – from day one. Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. Born Global or Die Local. Regional Ecosystems.

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Innovation Outposts and The Evolution of Corporate R&D

Steve Blank

In the first 50 years of commerce in the then-new United States, most businesses were general merchants , buying and selling all types of products as exporters, wholesaler, importers, etc. and concentrated on a single part of the supply chain – importing, distribution, wholesale, retail. See here for background on horizons.).

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Syndio

Austin Startup

This SaaS company, one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , enables global organizations to analyze and resolve pay gaps due to gender or race and stay in compliance over time. The pay gap speaks to the distribution of women and minorities in a company. million employees on the platform. What is your top goal for Syndio for 2020?

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Eric Ries in Times Square For any model to be useful it has to predict what happens in the real world – including the web. I realized the Customer Development model needs to be clearer in what exactly a startup is supposed to do, regardless of the business model. “What is the “Business Model” of your startup?&#

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Why Tech Will Transform Tomorrow’s Construction Site

YoungUpstarts

These are but some of the global startups who are gunning to transform an industry that is, quite frankly, in desperate need of a shake-up. It simply would not work on a global scale. Today, retail is dominated by international giants with powerful supply chains and increasingly digitized distribution systems.

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Swipe debit card, get stock; In defense of the IPO; New models for SMB lending, and more

Ben's Blog

And that’s to say nothing of consumer-friendly features offered by some of the newer entrants, such as overdraft protection. Source: S&P Global So why the large gap in feature sets? But the resulting shift is correcting long-standing issues in small business lending around distribution and risk selection.

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