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South Korea’s Young Startup Scene Is Growing Up Fast

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Korea is considered the world’s mobile commerce powerhouse: Mobile commerce makes up 28 percent of total online sales. SoftBank’s capital will be used to fund Coupang’s continuing investments in end-to-end fulfillment service and same-day delivery operations. It wasn’t long ago that South Korea launched its first startup accelerator.

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The Most Hated Profession Gets Automated As Legal Tech Heats Up

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By offering software solutions that streamline law offices’ workload, automating rote and repeatable work, projects that might have previously required hundreds of hours of human capital, could be accomplished much more efficiently. Smart money investor(s) : First Round Capital, Bessemer Ventures. First Name. Legal Tech.

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The Top 20 Venture Capitalists

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For the third consecutive year, we worked with The New York Times to identify and rank the top 100 venture capital professionals from around the globe. Below are the detailed profiles of the Top 20 Venture Capital Partners. PROFILES OF THE TOP 20 VENTURE CAPITAL PARTNERS. Current Firm: First Round Capital (Founding Partner).

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

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Today, Amazon Pay has evolved to include a digital wallet for customers and a payments network for both online and brick-and-mortar merchants. Traction/Metrics: Today’s iteration is Amazon Pay, a digital wallet for customers and a payments network for both online and brick-and-mortar merchants and shoppers. Amazon Cash.

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11 Lessons From Startup Chapter 11s

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In tests conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), The Coda was awarded a rating of 5 stars out of 5 for its side-impact and rollover tests. Founded by Jane Park in Seattle in 2007, beauty brand Julep quickly grew from a scrappy startup to a major omnichannel retail operation. Declared Bankruptcy: 2018.

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From China With Love: AI, Robotics, AR/VR Are Hot Areas For Chinese Investment In US

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We define Chinese investment as participation in private financing rounds by investors (corporate, venture capital, angel, private equity, etc.) In May, Tencent opened an AI research lab in Seattle focused on speech recognition as it looks to apply AI research to its social media, online games, and cloud services.

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24 Industries & Technologies That Will Shape The Post-Virus World

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In the wake of the outbreak, everything from doctors appointments to schooling to workouts went online. Education: Technology and online content make the classroom optional. Online courses & content. Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. Online grocery. 3D printing.

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