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The Case For Web-Based Mobile Apps – An Interview With UR Mobile

YoungUpstarts

As small businesses increasingly look towards mobile applications as a marketing strategy to reach their customers, the question some of them are asking is this: Is it better to go with a native application (i.e. He argues that deploying mobile web applications may be better value for small businesses. How quick and easy is it?

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Some examples: AI will be the new mobile. In 2016 alone, 300+ “machine intelligence” (AI + ML) startups in Europe raised over €1.4 Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Voyager Labs (2012) – cognitive computing for understanding human behaviour. Billion in VC funding.

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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

In 2016, 16.4% Developing a popular mobile scheduling app, they raised $1.2 In 2016, Winnipeg’s tech market saw a growth spurt which led the city to become a booming center for tech talent in Canada. Since 2012, it produced half of all the tech jobs added to Canada, per the CBRE research done on Canadian tech talent.

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Alexander Interactive’s 3 E-Commerce Predictions For 2012

YoungUpstarts

With the continued explosion of Apple’s iPad and other tablets in 2011, 2012 will see an expanded focus on tablet commerce. In addition, Forrester predicts mobile commerce growing at CAGR 39% through 2016. by Alex Schmelkin, co-founder and president, Alexander Interactive. Tablet Commerce Takes Off. Small Sites Catch Up.

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The Decade in Tech

Start Up Blog

The start of a massive GPS-driven logistics and mobility revolution. Why it mattered: An open and fair internet took a massive hit when Facebook bought Instagram. Then, just like magic, they were able to do it a couple of years later, lolz… see 2012 above. What happened: Twitch is launched + Steve Jobs dies.

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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. During that time, we watched the first wave of mobile apps take off — Foursquare, GroupOn, Instagram, Twitter, etc. But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum.

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An update on Version One’s thesis: backing mission-driven founders

Version One Ventures

We raised our first fund in summer 2012. At that time, Version One was a generalist firm, investing in consumer Internet, e-commerce, SaaS and mobile companies. By 2016, we had begun to specialize into a thesis-driven firm , focusing on businesses with potentially large network effects built around people and/or data. .

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