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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

Finally, the talent pool for tech startups has broadened immensely. Factors such as remote work, offshore development, and the steadily growing labor pool of software engineers have enabled startups to hire additional engineering talent, adding yet another catalyst to this vibrant ecosystem.

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42Maru’s CEO D.K. Donghwan KIM’s quest to find all ‘Answers’ led to the establishment of a successful startup

AsiaTechDaily

So, he took inspiration from his favorite science fiction book ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy’ and in 2015 founded the deep-semantic QA (Question-Answering) platform, which understands a user’s real intention in a question and derives a single answer from an extensive unstructured data.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot. This characteristic enables investment at the riskiest stage of business formation and growth. . —– Indie.vc is one of the early and most well-known Flexible VCs, based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. According to Indie.VC —– TinySeed.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot. This characteristic enables investment at the riskiest stage of business formation and growth. . —– Indie.vc is one of the early and most well-known Flexible VCs, based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. According to Indie.VC —– TinySeed.

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Ycombinator - Where unicorns are born

Don Dodge

Dropbox is expected to IPO in 2015 at a valuation exceeding $10 Billion. This is amazing when you consider that back in 2005 Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, iPhone, and many of the successful product platforms that enabled startup innovation didn’t exist or were not well known. There were no billion dollar unicorn startups.