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How can startups engage Amazon and AWS

VC Cafe

The program helps boost sales through its customer engagement tools (video content, dedicated storefront, editorial curation), merchandising, and strategic support. The accelerator provides equity-free financial support through AWS Promotional Credit, technical training and support, access to a global community of EdTech experts, and more.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

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

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Founder Interview: Abraham Gin on Entrepreneurs and Leadership

The Startup Magazine

Abraham: As a company we truly believe in justice and a DE&I space (diversity, equity and inclusion) and help leaders understand the importance of diversity and inclusion of different cultures, whilst still creating a sense of unity by appreciating the differences. TSM: How is your company impacting the world/your clients?

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Thoughts on curated marketplaces and perfect competition

The Equity Kicker

. … If you want the quick version, perfect competition is when the market is totally open, with full price transparency, full information for buyers and no concentration of either supply or demand. I agree with Jeff, but only about half the time. For marketplaces like eBay, Craigslist and Etsy he is right.

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Can you hire an all-remote team using freelance platforms only?

Transformify

A COO based in the US would probably demand $200K+ a year and equity options. Furthermore, most of the platforms that curate talent like Upwork, Fiverr and Transformify , have review features so you can see what previous employers and clients have said about the freelancers and their quality of work. Need a graphic designer?

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10 Tools for Understanding and Dissecting an Industry

VC Cafe

Resources abound online, but the noise-to-signal ratio is high, and the content needs to be verified and curated. There’s quite a range of information sources from curated reports to aggregated data. Clarity.fm , similar to Google Helpouts , offers an on-demand expert network for startups. 1) Industry reports. 8)Clarity.

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Evolving “openness” at marketplaces

The Equity Kicker

We love these companies because (done right) they are better for the supply side and the demand side and because at scale they exhibit significant network effects which make them very valuable. More recently marketplaces have started operating more curated models with much less transparency and more control over pricing.