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

YoungUpstarts

There are elements of vertical integration and franchising , classic business strategies for achieving operational efficiency and scale. To stay competitive, businesses have to learn to leverage the power of platforms. That starts with platform thinking. What is platform thinking? The underlying strategies are not new.

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Opinioneated.com On The Singapore Food Blogosphere

YoungUpstarts

Yongfook, as he is better known in Singapore’s tech entrepreneurship circle (we first wrote about him in 2009 ), is an avid cook and the former director for Japan-based online recipe network Cookpad in charge of its international business. Prior to that, Yongfook founded and sold off his own recipe social network Open Source Food.

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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups

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The top layer of applications and services that use the innovations of the first two layers to transform vertical markets (e.g, Analytics (the software tools and services necessary to get intelligent , accurate, and actionable analysis out of petabytes of data in minutes instead of weeks) ; and. About & Staff. Privacy Policy.

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What Got You Here, Won't Get You There. Change Drives Business Growth.

Small Business Force

Kaizen came to be after World War II Kaizen , which means “change for the better” in Japanese, first surfaced during efforts to rebuild Japan after World War II. Or, attend a trade seminar or workshop to learn what’s happening in your vertical market. At the time, several U.S. sales, marketing, etc.).

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[Asia] Lots of Buttons Sews Up Startup Asia’s Startup Arena Competition

YoungUpstarts

In fact the e-commerce site aims to be the world’s largest online crafts store, seeking to expand to other craft verticals pending profitability or an angel investment. The winning startup also receives a complementary booth at Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) in Beijing on May 7 and 8.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Plantible Foods

Austin Startup

The San Diego-based startup has developed vertically integrated system that produces a plant-based protein ingredient that can replace egg whites, whey and casein in food and beverage applications. When travelling through Japan with my mother and my brother, we ran into the rapper The Game on a train station in Hiroshima.

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Maximizing Your Facebook Advertising

YoungUpstarts

We had a chance to chat with Nicolas Franchet, Facebook ‘s Head of Retail & e-Commerce on its Global Vertical Marketing team, as well as Maz Sharafi, Head of Local Advertising Sales and Partnerships, on how small business owners, especially retailers, build an effective online strategy for Facebook.