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What I noticed in 2013

Start Up Blog

I also reverted to more text / SMS activity which would’ve been the only domain for my social media a couple of years ago. Still waiting for wearables: It feels like we are in early 2000′s phase for smart phones when it comes to wearable computing. It does seem as though all tech devices can perform much the same function.

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4 Unique Growth Tactics for 2020

ReadWriteStart

If customers aren’t receptive to email messages, try engaging them on a new platform, like social media, or SMS. SMS has become one of my favorite ways to engage prospects throughout the sales funnel. Once you have scheduled SMS texts in your pipeline, you can start developing other ways to engage prospects for unrivaled growth.

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Starting an Online Casino

The Startup Magazine

Conduct your research and find what works best, for example many online casinos allow customers to deposit and withdraw via their mobile phone bill using a premium rate SMS service. The launching of the site took happened in the year 2000, and since then, it continues to leave a mark in the people’s lives.

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Speech recognition anyone? AT&T; opens up Watson API

gigaom.com

The contexts are Web Search, Business Search, Voicemail-to-Text transcription, SMS speech transcription, Question and Answer, TV and a category called Generic used for general dictation purposes. Developers that exceed that amount will be charged $20 for each 2000-point increment, which works out to about 1 cent per transaction.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

Oracle real Application Clusters, Qualys QualysGuard, SAP Business Objects Broadcast Scheduler, SAP Business Objects Crystal Enterprise 8.5, SAP Business Objects Crystal Enterprise XI, SAP Business Objects Crystal Reports 8.5, Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.8,

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8 strategic hacks for building marketplace liquidity

The Next Web

It turns out that network effects can be broken – Amazon and StubHub took on eBay in the mid 2000’s. The prevailing consensus at the time was that B2B marketplaces were too hard (e.g. it’s really a software business, not liquidity driven) and that B2C marketplaces could not be built under the giant momentum of eBay’s “ network effect.

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As Populist as it May Feel, 98% of VCs Aren’t Dumb

Both Sides of the Table

In 2000 our industry had more than $100 billion in LP money. I IM and DM and SMS. The industry isn’t dying. It is changing. And reinventing itself. And some firms will go under. And others will emerge. That’s normal. It’s a market, after all. By 2009 had reduced to around $15 billion in capital from LPs.

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