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AI-powered Beauty Insights Platform Daash Intelligence Raises $5.5 Million Seed Investment. The start-up offers predictive commerce insights meant to inform product development, launch forecasting and competitive strategies.
How One Startup is Helping Companies Hire Gig Workers Faster
In April 2020, at the height of the US pandemic lockdown, the unemployment rate surged to a staggering 14.7%, with 20.5 million jobs lost...
Ross Kimbel
Oct 13, 20202 min read
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How Startups Saved Retailers From Drowning in Ecommerce
From TechCrunch - the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift to e-commerce by 5 years. Among other things, it mentions that...
Shaunish Mookerji
Sep 28, 20202 min read
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Cost of milk: $4. Cost of Delivery: $5. Any takers?
As the spate of Q2 2020 results came out recently for the retail industry, one category - grocery - did disproportionately well,...
Sid Mookerji
Sep 21, 20202 min read
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How a Golf Ball Stand Helped Kickstart a Love for Entrepreneurship
Aside from the obligatory “lemonade stand” at the age of 6 (in my case, it was a Coca-Cola stand), my first “real” entrepreneurial...
Ross Kimbel
Sep 13, 20203 min read
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Why Mobile Is Going To Disrupt The Payment Space
Mobile payments have been around in some form or another since the beginning of the 21st century. Digital wallets, in which consumers can...
Shaunish Mookerji
Aug 23, 20202 min read
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If I Were The CEO Of A Retailer….
On the same day that the US Commerce Department announced the largest ever slump in our country’s GDP at 34%, Amazon reported that their...
Sid Mookerji
Aug 2, 20202 min read
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3 Questions Startup Founders Should Ask an Enterprise Advisor
At Silicon Road, we are a venture capital fund investing in early stage, high growth potential startups. But we go beyond the capital. A...
Ross Kimbel
Jul 15, 20204 min read
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How Can Retailers Thrive During A Pandemic?
Retailers are facing challenging times. As we emerge from national lockdowns and brick-and-mortar retail opens up, many people are still...
Shaunish Mookerji
Jul 6, 20202 min read
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3 Ways Corporate Venture Funds Are Game-Changers
If you haven’t heard of Corporate Venture Capital Funds (CVCs), then you’re not alone. CVCs are used by large companies to invest in...
Sid Mookerji
Jun 25, 20202 min read
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The Best Founders Do This One Thing Well
What makes a great founder? Is it the college dropout? The Stanford grad? The first generation American? A tech savant? A visionary? The...
Ross Kimbel
Jun 21, 20202 min read
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Breaking It Down: Product. Market. Fit.
One of the most important criteria that we look for in a startup is product market fit, which Marc Andreesen describes as “being in a...
Shaunish Mookerji
Jun 14, 20202 min read
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Motivating Employees during a Pandemic
When economic mayhem is threatened, headlines are dominated by news of layoffs and furloughs. So what is a CEO to do? Especially as the...
Sid Mookerji
Jun 2, 20201 min read
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3 Things Founders Can Control During the Pandemic
One of the earliest life lessons I can remember came from my dad: focus on what you can control. As I’ve grown, I’ve learned that this...
Ross Kimbel
May 26, 20202 min read
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Say Yes to the Dress: Voice Commerce in Retail
The future is here. Just as we’ve seen in science fiction for decades, you can now purchase products using nothing but your voice....
Shaunish Mookerji
May 15, 20202 min read
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Voice Technology is Leading Retail Innovation
According to Tech Crunch, voice technology is going to explode retail to $40 billion from $2 billion by 2022! Both Google and Amazon have...
checactus
Jan 18, 20201 min read
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#StartUpSpotlight: Zoox Smart Data
Our #StartUpSpotlight of the Day is Zoox Smart Data. Zoox leverages WiFi of existing networks to enable captive portal user engagement...
checactus
Jan 15, 20201 min read
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Conference Season is Here!
If you’ve ever wondered where to find the next big thing in technology, look no further than CES. For years, Consumer Electronics Show...
checactus
Jan 10, 20201 min read
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Top 5 Retail Technology Trends for 2020
We are officially in 2020 and everyone is wondering what this year will bring to retail. Will it deliver a fatal blow to “brick and...
checactus
Jan 9, 20203 min read
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Fighting to Solve Organized Retail Crime
Organized retail crime (ORC) is a serious issue in the retail industry. With the average loss of $703,320 per $1 billion in sales in...
checactus
Jan 6, 20201 min read
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#StartUpSpotlight: Meatup
Our #StartUpSpotlight of the Day is Meatup. Meatup is an ecommerce food tech company that delivers premium, handpicked, carefully cut...
checactus
Jan 1, 20201 min read
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