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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. Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios. Autonomous Logistics – Global autonomous delivery revenue could reach $900bn by 2030.

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The Three Pillars of World-class Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

My good friend Alexander Osterwalder , the inventor of the business model canvas (one of foundations of the Lean Methodology) has written a playbook (along with his associate partner Tendayi Viki ,) From Innovation Theater to Growth Engine to explain how to build and implement repeatable innovation processes inside a company. .

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Today’s opportunities in enterprise SaaS

Version One Ventures

Yet even so, there still seems to be quite a runway in this space due to three mega trends: Every company is discovering that they need to use technology to streamline their business and improve their competitive position. And with “age” often come sub-optimal products, tech debt, inflexible business models, etc.

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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. Few entrepreneurs find this scalable and repeatable business model because it’s not easy. I visited Bend last year and caught up with his progress.

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Why Startups Must Liberate From Hiring Platforms

YoungUpstarts

Therefore, startups are best advised not to tie their fate to third-party businesses. The work history, clients, portfolio and reviews are gone, just like that? Use freelance platforms to connect with talent, then contract those who fit your business model outside the confines of the intermediary. Too big to fail.

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Top 10 Emerging Marketplaces for Chemical Industry in 2022

ReadWriteStart

Obtaining a competitive advantage while improving consistency and quality ensures that the supply chain will soon embrace flexible business models and become more efficient. Each of these conditions then helps these companies find new and better clients while filling each business’s unique needs.

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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

This meant the class was team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information rapidly for themselves.

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