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What Investors Look for in a Hyperlocal Startup

June 4, 2013July 9, 2013 by Rakesh Sharma

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The hyperlocal industry has seen a spurt of big funding news over the past few months with companies like Booker and FoodPanda nabbing double digit rounds. During an afternoon panel discussion at Street Fight Summit West in San Francisco, Alex Ferrara of Bessemer Venture Partners and Sharon Weinbar, a partner at Scale Venture Capital, broke down the way in which they approach investing in the local space…

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Waze VP: What Search Did for the Internet, Maps Will Do for Mobile

June 4, 2013July 9, 2013 by Rakesh Sharma

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As the local market readjusts to a mobile-first world, executives from Waze, ESRI, and Placed discussed the role of mobile analytics and mapping in a changed scenario at a panel discussion during the Street Fight Summit West in San Francisco Tuesday…

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Yelp VP Ghaffary: 2.5 Trillion in Commerce Will Remain Offline

June 4, 2013July 9, 2013 by Rakesh Sharma

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Contrary to Marc Andreessen’s recent claim, offline retail is not going to die, said Mike Ghaffary, VP at Yelp, during the morning keynote at Street Fight Summit West in San Francisco Tuesday. Ghaffary argued that the majority of the over $3 trillion in commerce will stay offline — and subsequently, the largest opportunity isn’t in bringing commerce online, but in using the web to support it offline…

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