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How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

Both Sides of the Table

million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City , Los Angeles , Chicago and Washington D.C. Just over a year ago I wrote about how MakeSpace had raised $17.5 If you have a storage need in one of these cities please consider checking out MakeSpace.

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Remote First: Why Isn’t Every Company Boundaryless

ReadWriteStart

I explained why authorities like Sam Altman of Y-Combinator , Angel List’s Naval Ravikant, Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, and Bill Gurley, GP at Benchmark Capital , believe boundaryless companies built by remote-distributed teams are the future of work. The Big Question: Why isn’t every company distributed today?

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How to Manage Supply Chain Planning Like a Pro

YoungUpstarts

Transportation partners play an enormous role in the supply chain as they bring products into distribution centers and sometimes directly to customers. Employ Demand Forecasting and Inventory Planning Solutions. These systems rely on demand figures for forecasting, rather than sales, and they provide several benefits.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: LexSet

Austin Startup

The approach allows users to generate limitless amounts of training data on-demand; customizing the camera type, lighting conditions, occlusions, and materials in a training set purpose generated for each application. Launching our public dashboard tool for on-demand training data generation. What is your top goal for LexSet for 2020?

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

and we were met with weak demand, slow growth and high costs. We realized that operating a business in distributed markets presented multi-city coordination efforts that we weren’t prepared for. were more distributed. We spent a few hundred thousand dollars opening up operations in Chicago and Washington D.C.

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How We Grew Our Fashion Accessories Business To Over A Million Dollars In Sales

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

My immediate goal was to have a showroom in every market in the US – Atlanta, Dallas, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. After Atlanta, we added our Dallas showroom and then Los Angeles. Our Los Angeles showroom opened up the specialty realtor Nordstrom account for us.

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In Spite of Avatar, The Movie Business is Dead

Growthink Blog

What is the future of Pay-Per-View/Video-on-Demand (PPV and VOD)? Video-on-demand alone is estimated to grow from a $1.1 In 1999, Lee joined the Silicon Valley new media content contingent as an Internet-company CEO, and has since founded two innovative Los Angeles media companies. Has the U.S. in History from UCLA.