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How a Little Bit of Fear Breeds Innovation

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In 2015, one of the largest healthcare intermediaries in the country presented us these challenges. Incumbent human processes were cumbersome, laborious, costly, slow and demoralizing. Ordering is decentralized, based on personal preferences in both products and vendors, and at variable prices without strong ties to clinical outcomes.

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Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years

TechCrunch

Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”. Indeed, 2015 was the year when CACs began to exceed or at least rival ARPUs for Alibaba and JD.com.

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The Breakout Tech Company Of 2018

Haystack

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Revenue acceleration is, too.

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AI chip startup Sima.ai bags another $30M ahead of growth

TechCrunch

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. An engineer by trade — Rangasaye was the COO at Groq and once headed product planning at Altera, which Intel acquired in 2015 — he says that he was motivated to start Sima.ai

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LMS365, a learning management system built into Microsoft 365 and Teams, raises $20M

TechCrunch

Embedding a learning management system directly into workers’ core everyday tools is one of LMS365’s core selling points versus incumbents in the LMS space such as Workday , Eloomi , or TalentLMS. Holst joined LMS365 last year from secure messaging company Wire , where he previously served as chief revenue officer.

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Headless CMS platform Kontent secures new capital to grow its customer base

TechCrunch

Kontent launched in 2015 as an internal startup of 18-year-old bootstrapped software developer Kentico. ” In 2015, Kentico started to explore the emerging trend of “headless CMSes,” trying to rethink some of the core concepts of content management and sell it as a software-as-a-service solution.

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Pinduoduo and The Rise of Social E-Commerce

Y Combinator

When Pinduoduo launched in 2015, there was little room for a new commerce platform in China. Pinduoduo is one of the first companies to successfully create a social shopping experience online, and has accelerated the transition of commerce from offline to online in China. But first, a bit of background.