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Here are the three resources we've prepared for today:

• Amazon's robots

• Digital publishing platform Ghost turns 12

• Free HubSpot and The Hustle Kit for launching a startup

Amazon's robots

The e-commerce giant Amazon now has more than 750,000 robots that sort, lift, and transport packages in its logistics centers, as explained by the company.

The company founded by Jeff Bezos "has built and scaled the largest industrial robotics fleet in the world," Amazon itself assures.

What are these robots like and what do they do? Amazon has explained the journey of a package through the eyes of nine robots used by the company:

• Sequoia

• Hercules 

• Titan

• Vulcan 

• Sparrow

• Packaging Automation

• Robin

• Cardinal

• Proteus

The new Innovation Center that Amazon has in Dortmund (Germany) is the best place to discover what the company's new robots are like and what they do. Amazon has offered an exclusive tour on its website to see the robots in action.

Links:

• Amazon Robotics

• Amazon has more than 750,000 robots that sort, lift, and carry packages—see them in action

• Amazon unveils 7 new robots powering faster, safer deliveries: Go inside our most innovative delivery station yet

• Meet Proteus 

Digital publishing platform Ghost turns 12

The digital publishing platform Ghost just celebrated its 12th anniversary.

Its founder, John O'Nolan, has published data on the evolution of the business, which generates 8 million dollars in annual revenue and has a team of 34 people.

"The core idea behind Ghost, in 2013, was simple," O'Nolan wrote. "I've always believed that independent publishing on the web is essential, and that the technology behind it plays an important role in its ultimate success or failure."

Ghost's ambition "was to create an open, specialized technology stack so that independent publishers, from solo creators to large newsrooms, could compete in a rapidly evolving digital media landscape, without depending on closed networks owned and controlled by private companies like Facebook and Medium," he added.

The founder of Ghost has expressed being "incredibly proud" of the journey "as a small independent non-profit organization that distributes free open-source software."

These are some of the media digital projects built with Ghost, among many others:

• 404Media 

• Platformer News 

• Tangle News 

• Lever News

• The Harvard International Review 

• The Stanford Review

• Kyiv Independent

• Mill Media 

• Berkeley Scanner 

• The Dublin InQuirer

• The 51st

Links:

• Ghost

• 12 years of Ghost

Free HubSpot and The Hustle Kit for launching a startup

The Hustle and HubSpot are offering a free resource designed for entrepreneurs: the Business Startup Kit.

It consists of nine templates that can help entrepreneurs perform various tasks related to launching and boosting their business, such as thinking about the project name, developing a business plan, or pitching the idea to investors, among others.

Which templates are included in this free kit?

Three of the templates are designed for the preparation phase:

• Feasibility study

• Porter's five forces analysis

• Startup business calculator

Three more serve for creating the startup plan:

• Business plan template

• Business name generation

• Elevator pitch templates

And three more are useful once the startup is launched:

• Checklist of necessary technologies

• Marketing plan template

• Project pitch deck template

Link:

• The Hustle’s Business Startup Kit 

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