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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

AI to make IRL matches – What if you could chat with a bot that learns about you on a deeper level and uses this information to make a curated set of matches? Smart Contracts – Powering the internet-native financial system, smart contract networks could generate fees of $450bn in 2030.

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Top 3 Remote Work Software Tools To Empower Your WFH Employees

YoungUpstarts

To help you in that quest, we’ve curated some of the top remote work utilities that have become absolute essentials for today’s transformed workforce. Here are some of the key features and benefits of deploying PDFelement as part of your software portfolio. 1: PDFelement 7 Pro. Never worry about document version management.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

Both Sides of the Table

I will use some examples from Parachute and some other portfolio companies to give you examples from our experiences of watching successful brands grow. Curation There are really multiple forms of “curation” that I think can build sustainable differentiation in products vs. the retailer that is selling them.

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How to Build the Next Huge Mobile App

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The advent and growth of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and, now, Pinterest has heralded a new era in the Internet where people are connected to one another to share, discover, curate, and collaborate. However unlike the intent oriented desktop Internet search, the mobile platform is about discovery.

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The Future of Education

Version One Ventures

Thanks to the Internet, you can find all of the needed resources from a variety of global experts to become world class at almost any subject or skill. A project portfolio that leads to income. For starters, it’s probably NOT more content. Want to learn to code for free? Freecodecamp and Codecademy have proven, thorough curriculums.

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Eight Tips to Help Small Businesses Get Serious About Reaching Connected Consumers

YoungUpstarts

And online consumers are not always who you think they are — in fact, a little over half of Americans over age 65 use the Internet and email, and 70 percent of those use the Internet on a daily basis. This does more harm than good, because it can be a big turn-off to curious connected consumers.

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Crowdsourcing: a 7+7 Primer (Pt. 1)

crowdSPRING Blog

Mid- to large-size companies can also benefit from the lean methodology and one way to do so is by actively leveraging crowds of workers: designers , software engineers , testers , writers , customer support people , customers, market researchers , and dozens of other groups via the Internet.