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Warehouses Aren’t Keeping Up With eCommerce

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Retail continues to migrate toward eCommerce, but warehouse space is not designed to keep up with the increasing pace of online orders. CBRE has found that most warehouses constructed prior to 2005 had low ceilings, tight space and uneven flooring — issues that are not easy to fix through a renovation.

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One Food-Ordering App To Rule Them All

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It’s a hungry brand, gobbling up three different food delivery competitors in the last quarter alone: Boston-based Foodler, Groupon’s OrderUp and most recently, Yelp’s Eat24. OrderUp does, however, continue to operate in 11 markets, which license the platform’s technology and mobile app, though they may not be doing business under its name.

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How Smaller Merchants Can Get Amazon-Style Logistics

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And that was exactly what Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos predicted when he first launched Amazon Prime, which offers the two-day shipping perk: “Amazon Prime takes the effort out of ordering: no minimum purchase and no consolidating orders,” Bezos wrote in a letter posted on the company’s website in 2005.

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The Top 20 Venture Capitalists

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We used CB Insights data gathered via our machine learning technology (dubbed The Cruncher ) and from thousands of submissions we received from VC partners and firms via The Editor. While Lin left the company in 2005, it was acquired by Microsoft in 2007. 2018 VC Report: AI FUNDING LEPT 29% IN US. BILL GURLEY. STEVE ANDERSON.

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Most Platforms Can’t Scale, Will Fail

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Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering the economics through Internet-based technology, generating significant consumer benefits.” They provide physical or virtual platforms (like a shopping mall) for multiple groups (like retailers and shoppers) to get together.

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From AT&T To Xerox: 65 Corporate Innovation Labs

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Download this presentation from the CB Insights Innovation Summit to see the technologies, business models and distribution innovations that you should watch for in the next 5 to 10 years. Technology. Retail/Consumer Goods. Technology. This post is broken up into sections. Click on a vertical to jump to it. Founded: 1966.

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121 Of The Biggest, Costliest Startup Failures Of All Time

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Company: AOptix Technologies. Select VC Investors: Bill Gates, CapX Partners, Constellation Technology Ventures. Company: Powa Technologies. The Nectar system had its roots at MIT’s Microsystems Technology Lab — and may have simply left the lab a few years too early. via Beta Boston. via TechCrunch. via Fortune.

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