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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

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Founding Date: 2004. What They Do: Travel search engine. How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Search Statistics: 2010 Queries: 634 million.

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Tech IPOs Are Back ? So Now What? ? AGILEVC

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But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search.

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How to Create a “Luxurious” User Experience (and Avoid Looking “Cheap”)

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Check out these data points: According to Think With Google , Luxury car price searches grew nearly 90% on mobile. Stock Photos and Other Inauthenticity. Stock photos tend to be a credibility killer, and when done really poorly, they make your site look cheap. Stock photos, in general, aren’t a problem.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Thus, the process of negotiating taking back stock from founders is not rational and inherently very difficult. Company : Wesabe.