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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care. AI to make IRL matches – What if you could chat with a bot that learns about you on a deeper level and uses this information to make a curated set of matches?

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Why Every Business Needs To Become A Platform, And How To Do It

YoungUpstarts

You could probably make a case for any one of these, but here’s the thing: Although on the surface these companies appear to have completely different business models, they all share one very powerful component: a scalable online platform connecting people and ecosystems. Obsessive curation of the brand experience.

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Business models for ecommerce 2.0

The Equity Kicker

Proprietary selection (aka curation) – e.g. companies that build their brand and community around their product selection like Nastygal and Modcloth. Proprietary merchandise – e.g. vertically integrated retailers like Bonobos and WarbyParker.

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How Early-Stage Startups Can Utilize the SVB Collapse as a Wake-Up Call

The Startup Magazine

And they probably never will be unless business model viability is reassessed across the board. We didn’t have to change our business model entirely, we just realized what was working and what wasn’t and moved on from there. they still aren’t profitable.

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“Podcast Discovery” Is A Problem But It’s Not A Company

Hunter Walker

.” Inertia is too strong and companies like Spotify, which solve this via search, curation and personalization, are increasing their share of podcast market. So what are some businesses to be built here if you are passionate about this challenge?

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Opportunities in ecommerce

The Equity Kicker

There’s a good post on Business of Fashion this morning which identifies four ecommerce models that are working in fashion: Social curation (which they helpfully define as ‘product discovery and connecting people to inspiration’). Vertically integrated ecommerce. Business models Ecommerce'

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Accel APX conference: short take aways

Cracking the Code

Twilio does a phenomenal job; also look how devs are using your services 3) Be responsive 4) Find a community hero 5) Be a cheerleader 6) Listen actively: the opposite of marketing or broadcasting PANEL: New vertical APIs Adam Ludwin, CEO, Chain Daniel Yanisse, Founder & CEO, Checkr Andrei Pop, Founder & CEO, HumanAPI - rise of vertical APIs (..)

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