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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

AI characters are already hosting interactive streams and shows in which they respond to audience questions, comments, or votes in real-time. Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video.

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The Future of America’s Innovation Economy- Progress and Challenges at the USPTO

David Teten

I took fairly detailed notes at last night’s panel on ‘ The Future of America’s Innovation Economy Progress and Challenges at the USPTO’ It was sponsored by The Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology; Seton Hall University School of Law; and the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association.

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If I Told You I'd Have to Kill You: The Story Behind “The Secret.

Steve Blank

Do you mean the Culinary Institute of America? On first glance it appears as if they are spending to much energy in the vertical portion of the jump, relative to the horizontal portion. If the mites were to live on both ears, the host moth couldn’t hear the bat’s sonar and the bat would eat the moth and the mites.

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Don’t Settle When You Decide Where to Settle

Austin Startup

Accelerator programs are becoming more and more vertical and pulling together corporate and institutional support that provides investment, purchasing power, and validation. But, it’s not a town to know and gain access to corporate America if that is a key component of your business model.

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Revolution co-founder talks Living Social, ZipCar, Steve Case & GroupOn Super Bowl Ads

Both Sides of the Table

A contemporary analog to this type of vertical integration is Comcast/NBC-U. When Facebook was opening up their platform, these guys thought that it was an interesting way to do user acquisition and preference acquisition of individuals and that they would be able find a way to monetize it in commerce-oriented verticals.

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Good to Great to Excellent: A Roadmap

www.launch.co

Thumbtack - Americas marketplace for local services. Ive been working on "Great to Excellent" techniques for all aspects of my professional life: my hosting ability on "This Week in Startups," angel investing, the LAUNCH Festival and my "day job" Mahalo. Competition is fiercer, winners win more and every vertical has many more losers.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

Corporate America could learn from this. I was about to become the first person in America to sell condom key chains. With that investment thesis thwarted, there is no way to pay expenses, primarily salary and hosting costs. We were amazed by the candor and generosity of many of the writers of these post-mortems.