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The Future of Hospitality is Here

Revolution

Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years. It is about building and recreating communities. The connective thread here is the use of technology.

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Convoy: The Future of Truck Freight

Y Combinator

In the last few years, incumbents have started to adopt technology to fix inefficiencies, but they’ve focused on tools to streamline individual tasks (e.g., Fragmented supply and demand is a problem for incumbents, but a great opportunity for a digital marketplace. On the supply side of the US freight market, there are 1.6

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Q3 outlook forecasts cloudy days ahead for fintech M&A

TechCrunch

Looking ahead, KPMG’s view on the prospects for financial services M&A over the next six to 12 months is mixed. Last year, TechCrunch published an op-ed from Nigel Morris around mental health stigma in the tech community when the initial program was announced. ” Image Credits: Paystand/Yaydoo.

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Meet Crowd.dev, an open source user-led growth platform for fostering developer communities

TechCrunch

Community-led growth (CLG) has emerged as a popular mechanism for driving business, as companies strive to foster an ecosystem of fervent users that draws in new customers organically, serves as a support network for millions and bangs a company’s drum completely off its own volition. Eagle Eye app. I mage Credits: Crowd.dev.

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Pillar of the community: How Talkbase plans to power user-led growth for any company

TechCrunch

A new startup is setting out to help companies build and harness communities around their products, enabling them to side-step multiple disparate tools and manage everything in a single platform. Community meets product. As TechCrunch wrote last year, in many ways, the chief community officer is the new chief marketing officer.

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Daily.dev is like Reddit meets Stack Overflow

TechCrunch

During the initial onboarding process, users are first asked to select topics that interest them — such as databases, developer tools or data science — and then they sign up using either their email address or credentials associated with Facebook, Google, GitHub, or Apple. So what, exactly, is Daily.dev hoping to bring to the mix?

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“Customer First” Healthcare

abovethecrowd.com

Most frequently people use this phrase in association with personal technology devices (heart-monitors, exercise accessories, sleep monitors, etc) that allow consumers to take direct control of their health information. The subject of the “consumerization of healthcare” has been around for many years. If you were a U.S.

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