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Fundrise CTO: New SQL Tools Lead to ‘Wonderfully Seamless Solutions’

The Startup Magazine

Crucially, SQL operates through declarative statements, allowing users to specify what data they want to retrieve or manipulate without detailing the procedural steps for achieving these tasks. SQL’s strength lies in its ability to handle complex queries over large datasets.

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Airbnb’s availability as a marketplace and its aggregation of substantial consumer demand has actually meant certain forms of lodging have been newly built or converted into rooms for the primary purpose of listing on Airbnb. Expedia 8%. Booking Holdings 35%. Hilton 17%. Marriott 9%.

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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

As such, successful B2B marketplaces will do the following well: Aggregate suppliers and provide price transparency. A marketplace needs to bring product catalogs from multiple suppliers and aggregate them in one convenient spot for customers.

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How To Trim Startup Operating Expenses Fast

YoungUpstarts

The United States is the 3rd most startup-friendly nation in the world, behind Germany and Japan, according to US News, but startup entrepreneurs in America still need to keep operating costs under tight control in order to build their companies and make them profitable.

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Chewy S-1: Category Leadership + Conveyor Belt Into Consumers’ Homes

View from Seed

Chewy helpfully provides some cohort data on both aggregate $ revenue, active customer spend, and LTV/CAC basis. spent by new customers in 2015, that same group (in aggregate) bought $1.65 First, on an operating cashflow basis Chewy has been CF positive in some of the recent years. 2) Impressive cohort growth & stability.

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A Bigger Truth About Restaurant Food Delivery

Both Sides of the Table

We know that the restaurant business already operates on thin margins and many struggle to survive. The problem for the restaurants is that the more successful the “aggregators” of customer demand become over time, the less power the restaurants themselves have individually. What is the Shopify of the restaurant industry?

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How Cody Moxam Predicts AI Could Influence The Healthcare Landscape

YoungUpstarts

For example, doctors could use AI tools that help them perform surgeries more efficiently than if they were operating alone, even reducing patients’ hospital stays by 21 percent. When AI can aggregate data and offer projections, patients and professionals can act with the future in mind. Improve communication.