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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

By reducing the friction for North American companies to find suppliers in China, they’ve been the most successful B2B marketplace to date. As are a handful of vertical marketplaces that have emerged over the past few years (e.g. B2B marketplaces should create buyer-driven workflows, tailored to the specific needs of a given vertical.

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Observations from my trip to India

Version One Ventures

A few observations from my time in India: Geography India recently surpassed China to become the world’s most populous country. E-commerce (DTC and infrastructure), fin tech (lending, payments), healthcare and B2B marketplaces are some of the verticals that have seen tremendous growth.

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The challenge facing Bitcoin start-ups

Version One Ventures

Once implemented, the blockchain might be able to disrupt many verticals that are built around managing the transfer of ownership by replacing a centralized approach with a decentralized (and hence usually more efficient) approach. However, more interesting areas are those where current payment fees are very high (e.g.

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Why Defense Could Now Be a Market for Startups

Steve Blank

This emerging opportunity reflects the urgency of keeping pace with rivals like China and Russia, who are furiously integrating commercial technologies like AI, quantum computing, and unmanned systems into their armed forces. ai entered the defense market having already built a successful commercial business in the energy vertical.

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The Rapid Evolution of Generative AI Video footage

VC Cafe

Both startups and large tech companies leaned in hard, incorporating automation tools and generative AI applications across verticals. As Justine’s timeline shows, the big players in this space are the large tech platforms: Google, Meta, Nvidia in the US and in China, Bytedance, Alibaba and Baidu.

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

China’s growth over the past few decades has been remarkable. This was the big consumer behavior story of 2018, behind the rapid rise of digitally-native vertical brands (like the breakout , Hims), and the rise of prosumer-level data applications (like breakout Airtable). Frankly, the scale of it has snuck up on the U.S.

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CEO Shaking Up the AI Industry With a Robotic Reading Companion for Kids

Hearpreneur

Most recently, he was named one of the 40 Under 40 Businessmen in China by Fortune magazine. In the past few years, AI technology has developed rapidly in China creating large-scale companies. Ling Technology is a board member of Jibo an exclusive partner in China. Tell us your story. Why did you start your business?