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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.

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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

Twenty years ago – in the midst of the Web 1.0 As are a handful of vertical marketplaces that have emerged over the past few years (e.g. But overall, we’ve yet to see the large-scale success of B2B marketplaces across the full spectrum of verticals. boom – expectations were high for B2B (product) marketplaces. Transaction fees.

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4 Ways IoT is Rewiring How the World Works

ReadWriteStart

Also, it can open up numerous business models and revenue channels that were earlier inaccessible for want of a suitable hardware and software solution. The world’s most sensitive industry vertical is for upheaval with IoT. In the process, it is creating Billions of revenue and cost-efficiency impact for several industries. .

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers?

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Meet Chainalysis, the startup that brought down the biggest dark web marketplace

Cracking the Code

Chainalysis is the clear market leader in their vertical and sits at the nexus between crypto exchanges, financial institutions, regulatory bodies, and law enforcement agencies. important pillars towards the inevitable maturation of the cryptocurrency space.

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5 Things You Should Know Before Hiring A Development Shop

YoungUpstarts

Most dev shops are good at one technology over another, or focus on UX or even a vertical like healthcare. You’ll be understand which parts of your software are the trickiest to build and you can decide whether it’s worthwhile to include all the features you have in mind from those proposals. Most have an emphasis. Get multiple quotes.

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

Our research showed that LTV was much higher compared to other verticals we have worked in the past which made the decision to change our approach a no-brainer. In 2020 we applied the same approach to two of our customers: idronect (software to manage drone businesses) and Opsfleet (software development company).

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