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

Version One Ventures

Other mashup APIs already exist that aggregate data from different carriers, but there’s yet to be any clear winner in the space. We believe that Shippo offers the right algorithm, API, and web interface to change the game for mid-sized e-commerce shipping. The annual rate at which e-commerce is growing is 20%.

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

Version One Ventures

Other mashup APIs already exist that aggregate data from different carriers, but there’s yet to be any clear winner in the space. We believe that Shippo offers the right algorithm, API, and web interface to change the game for mid-sized e-commerce shipping. The annual rate at which e-commerce is growing is 20%.

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web. Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. TCP and the other foundational technologies of the web had that same property, that there was something really computationally especially complicated about them, but it was their social value. How did it come on your radar for the first time?

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