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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Most startups equate the process of fundraising to dating – founders have to typically kiss a lot of frogs until the find the right fit. I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here.

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The API-as-a-marketplace

Version One Ventures

As we’ve been spending time on B2B marketplaces and dev tools/platforms, we’ve come to realize that there’s an interesting sub-category that combines elements of both: the API-as-a-marketplace. What is an API-as-a-marketplace? Just like a traditional marketplace, an API-as-a-marketplace has two sides: suppliers and buyers.

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13 tech trends to adopt before the year’s end

The Next Web

From breakthrough online products to new features from established platforms, today’s startups should be jumping on the most promising of tomorrow’s trendy technology. APIs Are Everywhere! Heck, even the White House has issued a directive that all departments need to build an API in 90 days. Wade Foster , Zapier.

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Understanding A Data Engineering Pipeline

The Startup Magazine

This can be done using various methods, such as scraping web pages or accessing APIs. This may involve cleaning up inaccuracies, standardizing designs, or aggregating multiple data sets. This can be done using various methods, such as scraping web pages or accessing APIs. First, data is extracted from one or more sources.

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Access, Aggregation, and Other Big Data Challenges for Startups

ReadWriteStart

In some ways, the term "big data" belies the challenges that startups face in tackling the subject. It isn't simply a matter of storing data, but rather how companies, particularly startups, can access data. These are challenges for any company, arguably, but for startups, they can be particularly daunting. Discuss.

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Introducing our latest investment: Shippo, simplified shipping for small e-commerce sites

Version One Ventures

They also provide an API that connects online stores to all the relevant shipping providers both locally and internationally. Other mashup APIs already exist that aggregate data from different carriers, but there’s yet to be any clear winner in the space. The annual rate at which e-commerce is growing is 20%.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here. Over 1,000 senior professionals have since signed up for the mailer, which goes out on Fridays. I tried to make it a little more entertaining than your average job RSS feed. It wants to click.