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Simbe’s Inventory Robots Are So Good, They Just Raised $28 Million

ReadWriteStart

Retailers can save time and money by employing inventory robots to manage their stock. Forecasts indicate that the market for inventory robots will expand in the years to come. Future innovations are likely to be even more ground-breaking than they already are, as the technology powering inventory robots adapts to meet rising demand.

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

“It follows that the goal of forecasting is not to see what’s coming. It is to advance the interests of the forecaster and the forecaster’s tribe.” As a fan of prediction lists, I collected a number of interesting reports and expert forecasts for 2021 in the spaces we cover at Remagine Ventures.

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Five Categories with Corona Tailwinds

View from Seed

Restaurants are closing, stocks are tanking, and travel has come to a halt. The National Restaurant Association forecasts sales declines of $225 billion over the next three months. This will hopefully help local restaurants weather the storm, while increasing delivery demand. The food delivery ecosystem will thrive.

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Entrepreneurial Essentials – The Foundations Of A Successful Startup

YoungUpstarts

By the time they are up and running they are so busy with the day to day aspects of keeping their business ticking over that they can become overwhelmed at the time demands of invoicing, tax compliance and a thousand other distractions competing for their attention. Provide real-time stock and inventory levels. Staff requirements.

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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

Sloan put in place GM’s management accounting system (also borrowed from DuPont) that for the first time allowed the company to: 1) produce an annual operating forecast that compared each division’s forecast (revenue, costs, capital requirements and return on investment) with the company’s financial goals. The company closed in 1931.

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Completing your first capital raise: ten lessons for startups

NZ Entrepreneur

Kiwi inventory forecasting software StockTrim achieved international sales in the UK, Australia and US immediately after launching in 2017. Comparing the MOQs of his product SKUs “saved me running out of stock at Christmas,” Peska told Sutton. It’s been growth ever since, and in 2020 the company pitched for funding to scale up.

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Mapping the Unknown – The Ten Steps to Map Any Industry

Steve Blank

When I asked what they already knew about it, they tossed me a tall stack of industry and stock analyst reports, company names, web sites, blogs. How cyclical is demand? What are the demand drivers? The beginner’s forecasting method is to simply extrapolate current growth rates forward. Forecasting.

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