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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

By reducing the friction for North American companies to find suppliers in China, they’ve been the most successful B2B marketplace to date. As are a handful of vertical marketplaces that have emerged over the past few years (e.g. B2B marketplaces should create buyer-driven workflows, tailored to the specific needs of a given vertical.

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Israeli High Tech Exits On First Half of 2017 Slowdown and Potential Explanations

VC Cafe

Partial reasons for the slowdown seem to be pinned on macro economic changes in the US taxation regime, or regulatory changes in China related to the right of businesses to spend capital outside the country. ” Another explanation offered by Adv. These companies are just starting to grow, and haven’t reached maturity yet.

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The Rapid Evolution of Generative AI Video footage

VC Cafe

Both startups and large tech companies leaned in hard, incorporating automation tools and generative AI applications across verticals. Timeline of Generative AI for video progress in 2023 A16Z partner Justine Moore posted an excellent X thread on the advances of generative AI for video right before the end of the year.

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

China’s growth over the past few decades has been remarkable. This was the big consumer behavior story of 2018, behind the rapid rise of digitally-native vertical brands (like the breakout , Hims), and the rise of prosumer-level data applications (like breakout Airtable). Frankly, the scale of it has snuck up on the U.S.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

By aggressively launching a free to use service, Alibaba’s Taobao quickly became the leading person-to-person trading site in China. In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. As you can see, that can be a big mistake.

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CEO Shaking Up the AI Industry With a Robotic Reading Companion for Kids

Hearpreneur

Most recently, he was named one of the 40 Under 40 Businessmen in China by Fortune magazine. In the past few years, AI technology has developed rapidly in China creating large-scale companies. Ling Technology is a board member of Jibo an exclusive partner in China. Tell us your story. Why did you start your business?

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. But other critical hypotheses such as activities, resources, partners, channels needed testing offshore. while building their products in China.

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