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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. Technological Convergence – The global equity market value associated with disruptive innovation could increase to 60% by 2030.

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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

VC Cafe

Global search engine market share in May 2023 (source) However, since the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022, user habits (and perhaps expectations) began to change. But two years after Google came to the fore in 1998, Google became the number one search engine and “Googling” has become synonymous with web search.

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4 Ways IoT is Rewiring How the World Works

ReadWriteStart

There are few technologies in the world today that can make a Trillion-dollar impact on the global economy. McKinsey, the global think tank, estimates that IoT will have an economic impact of between $4 trillion and $11 trillion by 2025 ( Source ). The world’s most sensitive industry vertical is for upheaval with IoT.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

However, most countries don’t have sufficient population to support scale with just their local market and ultimately need to be global players – from day one. Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. Born Global or Die Local. Regional Ecosystems.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC

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

YoungUpstarts

By Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay. What’s the hottest trend in business right now? To stay competitive, businesses have to learn to leverage the power of platforms. By adopting platform thinking and new technology, any business can evolve to join the platform economy.

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5 Rules Of Relevancy That Set Your New Venture Apart

Startup Professionals Musings

Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.