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AI, Blockchain, Web 2.0, and Self Driving Cars

View from Seed

The most common analogies I’ve been considering with the current wave of generative AI are blockchain, self-driving cars, and Web 2.0. In contrast, generative AI has already inspired a myriad of compelling uses, and it’s easy to envision its integration across many categories of software. Which leads me to the second analogy.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

What channels will you use (e.g., Targets Are you developing a native app and/or a web app? Can you do a hybrid web/native application? Team and Process Are you using, or planning to use any software development methodologies? What’s been done so far to validate the concept? Who are the other stakeholders involved?

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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

As I recently watched an episode of “ Shark Tank ,” I realized that the shark investors focus on your responses to these questions is also a credibility test on your business savvy, as it leads to other relevant questions on margins, channels, and your understanding of key customer forces. Outside partners and channel impacts are complex.

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Why Do You Need Helpdesk Software For Your Startup?

YoungUpstarts

Most people would rather prefer going via self-help software or instant messaging to resolve their queries. Installing a helpdesk software can best facilitate this. With the installation of this software, you would get to enjoy multi-channel helpdesk. Of course, there are more ways than one in this regard.

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Tips For SaaS Businesses To Up Their Game By Leveraging Web Push Notifications

YoungUpstarts

In 2017, with 5X times faster growth than traditional software market, SaaS finds itself outrunning traditional software product delivery. Cloud software model will account for 1 dollar for every $4.59 spent on traditional software by 2019. A mammoth decline in traditional software can be seen in the coming future.

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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Products that can be easily produced and sold via multiple channels, including the Internet, are more easily scaled world-wide. Use open-source e-commerce and website software, including web-chat software and PayPal, rather than building expensive customized solutions. Develop a product line and add alternate channels.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

New enterprise resource planning software (ERPs) – new startups that build software that helps businesses run. AI to build enterprise software – In the future, every enterprise could have their own custom ERP, CRM or HRIS that is continually updating itself as the company itself is changing.