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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.”. The China opportunity. per package wholesale as of this year.

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Spend management platform Teampay expands partnership with Mastercard, raises $47M

TechCrunch

In 2016, Andrew Hoag, formerly a senior manager at Verisign and a web project lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center, founded Teampay , a platform that attempts to automate the software purchasing process for companies. Hoag believes it is, pointing to the Mastercard partnership.

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Pinduoduo and The Rise of Social E-Commerce

Y Combinator

The success of Pinduoduo in China suggests there is a huge opportunity for social commerce platforms to emerge in other regions. Only one month after launching their first party application in January 2016 (transactions prior to this happened via WeChat), Pinduoduo already had over 10 million customers. But first, a bit of background.

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Equal access to capital and entrepreneurship is the final civil rights movement

TechCrunch

They saw me as an American that could bring them business opportunities and that was it, I felt that I was judged more on the merits of the value that I could bring than I would in the U.S. — Spurred by opportunities, I started a successful import and export business in China, and after a few years I had over 30 employees.

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YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria

TechCrunch

The only worry is incumbents might want to eat into Duplo’s meal — but then again, the market is massive. Founded in: 2016. That’s where Plumter sees an opportunity and is pitching to help African importers process payments to China/APAC within 48 hours. YC-backed Duplo raises $1.3M Website: [link]. Team size: 60.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

It only seemed logical to us that the same opportunity should exist in healthcare. Over the next two years, I looked at many healthcare IT investment opportunities – I went “all in.” Eventually, however, we gained our footing and developed a mental model for the industry and a framework for where opportunities do exist.

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MakeSpace Raises an Additional $17.5 million and Unveils Strategy to Make Public Storage the Next Blockbuster Video

Both Sides of the Table

million in funding on TechCrunch led by Harmony Partners and Upfront Ventures to double its footprint of 3 cities (New York, Chicago & Washington DC) to 6 in 2016. Incumbents became increasingly annoyed with our successes in the country’s largest market – NYC – that they started even taking out ads against us.

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