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What Would Happen if you Built the Reverse of Amazon? It Might Look Something Like This …

Both Sides of the Table

The second is that the retailers were constrained by their high costs of local real estate and service staff relative to the costs of centralized warehouses where goods could be stacked high, sorted by robots, managed by RFIDs and then shipped via overnight to eager, cost-conscious customers across the US.

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How We are Investing Through The Covid Correction

View from Seed

We believe that it is unwise for VCs to try to time markets or do unnatural things to manage investment pace. Similarly, FOLD has always held seed investors back from doing second seed or late seed investments for fear that they are being suckered into something that others have already passed on. Number of Investments.

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Janvest Wants to Fill the Seed Investment Gap in Israel (Interview)

VC Cafe

A s venture funds struggle to raise money in Israel, seed capital, one of the earliest and riskiest stages of investment, is becoming harder and harder to secure. To learn more, VC Cafe interviewed Brian Rosenzweig, one of the managing partners in the new fund and the former marketing director at 21Ventures.

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Wave after wave of hardware, software, biotech and cleantech products have emerged from what has become “ground zero” of entrepreneurial and startup culture. Entrepreneurship as It’s Own Management Science.

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Why Startups Die

The Next Web

Startups die due to a variety of causes. I have witnessed startup failures that were due to predictable co-founder conflicts. You may end up a company in the difficult position of having to scale back or become defensive, due to market evolution, management blunders, or any combination. But it will still be your company.

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Twitter Link Roundup #28 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 5 thoughts for startups & small business on managing the work vs. home wrestling match – [link]. Take This Test – Harvard Business Review – [link]. Should You Be An Entrepreneur?

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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

Gust

Make your public profile as sexy, comprehensive and enticing as possible, adding a short, well done, elevator pitch video (think “the kind of video you see on great Kickstarter campaigns”) and listing your full management team. And don’t forget the ability to customize your profile’s background.