Episode
#60 - YC Demo Day Startups #2, Importing Foreign Innovations & Collaborative Copywriting
1:05:43
Published: Mon Mar 30 2020
Description
Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) today go over more YC batch companies! Sign up to the new Trends report that Sam mentioned at https://trends.co. Today's topics: Sam might have corona virus (5:46), is YC better this year going digital? (10:15), Smile Direct Club for Latin America (14:56), Education in India (17:56), EzeWholesale - Marketplace for Used Phones (23:28), Offerup and LetGo Merger (28:13), Build a Plane - Project Management for Construction (30:03), Strippers leaving their jobs to become delivery drivers (34:24), Ditto - Collaborative copywriting tool (38:12), Shaan's marketing intern challenge (46:14), Ugly food delivery services (48:49), Automating collections using Upflow (52:52), Teiv - Adblock for in-store TV's (58:31) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Episode#60 - YC Demo Day Startups #2, Importing Foreign Innovations & Collaborative Copywriting
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Episode#60 - YC Demo Day Startups #2, Importing Foreign Innovations & Collaborative Copywriting
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Episode#60 - YC Demo Day Startups #2, Importing Foreign Innovations & Collaborative Copywriting
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Episode#60 - YC Demo Day Startups #2, Importing Foreign Innovations & Collaborative Copywriting
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10:52 - 14:07 (03:14)
Summary
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Episode#60 - YC Demo Day Startups #2, Importing Foreign Innovations & Collaborative Copywriting
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Episode#60 - YC Demo Day Startups #2, Importing Foreign Innovations & Collaborative Copywriting
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Episode#60 - YC Demo Day Startups #2, Importing Foreign Innovations & Collaborative Copywriting
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Episode#60 - YC Demo Day Startups #2, Importing Foreign Innovations & Collaborative Copywriting
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Episode#60 - YC Demo Day Startups #2, Importing Foreign Innovations & Collaborative Copywriting
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Episode#60 - YC Demo Day Startups #2, Importing Foreign Innovations & Collaborative Copywriting
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Episode#60 - YC Demo Day Startups #2, Importing Foreign Innovations & Collaborative Copywriting
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Episode#60 - YC Demo Day Startups #2, Importing Foreign Innovations & Collaborative Copywriting
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Episode#60 - YC Demo Day Startups #2, Importing Foreign Innovations & Collaborative Copywriting
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Episode#60 - YC Demo Day Startups #2, Importing Foreign Innovations & Collaborative Copywriting
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