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Why Amazon Is the Undisputed E-Commerce Growth Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

From meager beginnings selling books online back in 1994, Amazon is currently the largest e-commerce retailer and cloud computing platform in the world, and now dominates even the giant Walmart. Recently, I saw some help in that regard in a new book, “ Think Like Amazon ,” by John Rossman, a former top executive at Amazon.

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6 Information Surges Raise Huge Startup Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

Digital commerce: infinite options for buying goods and services online. Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. For startups, this is an engagement opportunity worth billions of dollars. The audience is now the actors.

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6 Growth Challenges That Every Good Startup Will Face

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. I’m not talking here about a small pivot.

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6 Reasons Your Hockey Stick Growth Curve Can Go Flat

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. I’m not talking here about a small pivot.

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6 Technology Trends Will Spawn Countless New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

Digital commerce: infinite options for buying goods and services online. Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. For startups, this is an engagement opportunity worth billions of dollars. The audience is now the actors.

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How Halla Is Using AI To Personalize Food, With Spencer Price

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Spencer Price: Halla is the only software company to dynamically profile human tastes so we can help people make better choices. Halla exists to help people understand a more curious world. When you say you help people make better choices, what does that look like to a user? Spencer Price: That's a fair question.

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6 Growth Barriers Most Startups Don’t See Coming

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. I’m not talking here about a small pivot.

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