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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. Smart Contracts – Powering the internet-native financial system, smart contract networks could generate fees of $450bn in 2030. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video.

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All Markets Are Not Created Equal: 10 Factors To Consider When Evaluating Digital Marketplaces

abovethecrowd.com

Entrepreneurs accurately recognize that the connective tissue of the Internet provides an opportunity to link the players in a particular market, reducing friction in both the buying and selling experience. Aggregating suppliers is a necessary, but insufficient step on its own. You must also organically aggregate demand.

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The future of mobile ecommerce

The Equity Kicker

As we all know people are increasingly accessing the internet and shopping from their smartphones (one of our more recent investments has 81% of it’s traffic from mobile), and within mobile people are spending a larger and larger share of their time in apps at the expense of browsers. So how will discovery work on mobile?

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. The valuations for acquisitions were nothing like the Internet bubble, but there was a path to liquidity, difficult as it was. Perhaps in direct proportion to the number of “freemium” and “eyeballs” web deals funded.)

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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! If you don't stink completely, things on the the web always go up and to the right over time – the argument is simply about the slope of the line and short term fluctuations. See Page 269. :).

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

And thanks to the radical transparency enabled by the internet, the quality of these proposals is actually constantly rising, to the point that it’s almost impossible to judge the quality of the final product – because all the proposals look polished and professional, even the terrible ones. Though technology tools and Web 2.0

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BUZZ Doesn’t Equal BUY: Three Factors To Look For When Seeking Stocks With Long-Term Value

YoungUpstarts

by Forbes magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard and author of “ The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success “ Avid market watchers know that the last two months have been devastating to fast-growth Internet stocks. Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I

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