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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care.

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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

VC Cafe

Challenges galore Like any tech advancement at scale, to succeed in this endeavour requires deep pockets: cloud resources and costly GPUs, expensive AI engineers and a working business model, all of which Google already has. We’re moving away from the 10 blue links (and sometimes 10 blue ads) and moving into something different.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Looxid Labs

Austin Startup

Chae talks about the why his smile is his superpower, the promise of an open-source smart home, how to know when it’s time to start a business. Our team was very much excited by the news that Apple, Google, and Amazon are teaming up to develop an open-source smart home standard.

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Opinioneated.com On The Singapore Food Blogosphere

YoungUpstarts

Yongfook, as he is better known in Singapore’s tech entrepreneurship circle (we first wrote about him in 2009 ), is an avid cook and the former director for Japan-based online recipe network Cookpad in charge of its international business. Prior to that, Yongfook founded and sold off his own recipe social network Open Source Food.

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eCommerce: A VC Story [guest post]

VC Cafe

Today, eCommerce companies can scale up faster than almost any other consumer business model. This is due in part to the relatively simple and immediate validation of business models that are not fully dependent on advertising. That marketing, however, is dependent on capital, and that capital means Venture Capital.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Winding Tree

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 Winding Tree has created the world’s first open marketplace for travel. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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How do seed investors benchmark startups?

Hippoland

Open source libraries (such as TensorFlow) make technology more accessible for less skilled or self-taught developers such as myself to use. Obviously within this category there are a LOT of verticals that are looked at very different — everything from e-commerce to B2B SaaS to marketplaces. But, you need to be growing FAST.

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