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6 Information Surges Raise Huge Startup Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

Digital commerce: infinite options for buying goods and services online. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves.

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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. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves.

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Reflections on 2018: Anna Barber, Techstars LA

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And a host of interesting companies in last mile have cropped up to give the Amazon ecosystem some competition, like two companies from the last Techstars LA class - Shipsi and PRZM. Voice tech is rapidly becoming an end to end interface, not just a way to make a shopping list or check the weather.

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Fifty years of the internet

TechCrunch LA

How did we go from collaboration to competition, from consensus to dissention, from a reliable digital resource to an amplifier of questionable information? Commercial policies gained influence, companies could charge for domain registration, and credit card encryption opened the door for e-commerce.

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Silicon Beach at USC 2013 | Entrepreneurial Inspiration

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The second annual USC Silicon Beach event, hosted by the four professional schools at USC, featured a pitch competition and a conference filled with informational panels and interviews. Startup Pitch Competition. I tried to treat it as a learning experience and refined my pitch for this competition.”.

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6 Trends Are Driving A Data Tsunami For Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Digital commerce: infinite options for buying goods and services online. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves.

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5 Steps To Strategy Tuning Through Machine Learning

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, most e-commerce platforms today offer millions of products, with a changing mix daily and a changing market, such that it’s virtually impossible to manually predict a strategy for mapping customer demographics to products displayed online. No human or paper tracking systems are a competitive alternative.