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Vendor Management Software: Simplify billing and payments to affiliates and on-demand workforce

Transformify

Speaking of vendor management, it comes as no surprise that businesses rely more on service providers, one-off vendors and vendors on-demand to ensure flexibility while keeping the bottom line low. How is it possible to automate the end-to-end process to cut on costs and eliminate the likelihood of human errors? Couriers on-demand.

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Top Pros And Cons Of Starting A Tutoring Business

The Startup Magazine

If you have a specialty in multiple subjects, you can explore teaching some or all of them depending on the demand for those disciplines. Starting a tutoring business has minimal start-up costs, which is great for people who want to start a business but don’t possess the capital to invest. Cyclical Demand. Time Intensive.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Small fine-tuned models as an alternative to giant generic ones – when finely tuned with appropriate data, smaller, specialised LLMs can yield comparable results at a fraction of the cost.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

Traditional video had very high costs of distribution due to limited time slots of broadcast TV (we only had enough spectrum to support 3-4 channels). Much of network television can cost $100,000 / minute to produce. Producers can cost-effectively test formats and build fans as they go. Much of it already is. Not so fast.

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Why the Gig Economy is Coming for Architects, Engineers

ReadWriteStart

The labor shortage has an “undermined project management and execution, adversely affecting cost, timelines, and quality.”. Ultimately, time is money — and the lack of available, skilled workers and professionals are one of the biggest drivers of rising construction costs. A win for workers, a win for companies.

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How Cody Moxam Predicts AI Could Influence The Healthcare Landscape

YoungUpstarts

It could help people manage resources more efficiently (such as anticipating future demands for clinics and emergency rooms), help people intervene earlier in disease processes, recommend specialty services, and more. When AI can aggregate data and offer projections, patients and professionals can act with the future in mind.

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The Great Retail Reinvention: How the Internet Is Reshaping the Way We Buy Clothing

View from Seed

We are currently seeing the most rapid collapse of retail since the Great Recession, due to the internet changing consumer demand and purchasing patterns. It’s a $1T+ global industry undergoing tectonic shifts. In 2017 alone, we’ve seen widespread store closures or bankruptcies from apparel retailers, including: True Religion.

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