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Ghost appears with new funding, marketplace to match buyers with unsold products

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The process for retailers and brands to liquidate excess inventory hasn’t changed very much, if at all, and while some retailers were able to build operational infrastructure to service the off-price channels, it continues to be a constant pain point. Ghost is not alone in developing technology focused on inventory.

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Starship Technologies picks up €50M from the EU’s investment arm to expand its fleet of autonomous delivery robots

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Starship Technologies is describing this as a “quasi-equity facility”, meaning there is a venture loan involved in the mix. million commercial deliveries (up from 2 million in October 2021) and travelled over 3 million miles globally. It has now made more than 2.5

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How long can Zuckerberg afford to bankroll the AR/VR market?

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The Facebook parent-company saw its stock price get bludgeoned after a bad earnings report showcased that Apple’s ad-blocking changes are shaving billions off its books and the company’s crown jewel — the Facebook platform — has stopped growing and actually shrank this quarter. Image Credits: Facebook. the big thing.

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7 Keys To Scaling Your Startup To Be The Next Unicorn

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, that means a mindset willing to give up much more equity, and taking on a whole new level of risk. Switch your focus from product development to sales. Now is the time to start buying your competitors, rather than just crushing them, or trying to develop enough new products internally to overrun them.

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6 Key Rules To Stay Competitive In The Digital World

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Features, availability, and brand are just the price of entry. Apple pulled ahead of other mobile phones in its early days largely because it cultivated an ecosystem of software developers who created iPhone apps to meet every consumer niche and need. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 05/20/2021.

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Canada’s newest unicorn: Clio raises $110M at a $1.6B valuation for legal tech

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Rowe Price Associates Inc. and OMERS Growth Equity. Much like how Microsoft Windows defined the operating system for personal computers decades ago, Clio has developed a software platform for law firms and their clients that is cloud-based and client-centric by design,” Newton said. Clio currently has 600 employees.).

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