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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

User Growth Snap’s user growth came to a near stop after Instagram launched a direct clone called Stories in September of 2016: Snap’s daily active users grew just 3% in Q4 2016. It’s up from 40 minutes in July 2014. 2016/2017 Spectacles — capture video on the glasses. Let’s look at each figure.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Agency I started back in 2014 and still run, is named Neparno 10, which on Serbian language means Odd 10. I had served as P+B’s West Coast Director for 3 1/2 years, acquiring the company at the end of 2016. Ran reports through a IP lawyer, they were all taken or didn’t sound good. Thanks to Chris Wain, Africa Travel ! #4-

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

In 2016 alone, 300+ “machine intelligence” (AI + ML) startups in Europe raised over €1.4 Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Anodot (2014) – a real-time analytics and automated anomaly detection system that discovers outliers in vast amounts of data. Billion in VC funding.

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Israel & Japan: Konnichi Wa to Collaboration, Sayonara to Stagnation

VC Cafe

In 2014, then Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Toshimitsu Motegi , concluded a joint industrial R&D agreement in Israel. A series of high profile business delegations to Israel ensued in 2016. In 2015, bilateral trade reached $ 2.5 Billion ($1.6 Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, visiting Israel in January, 2015.

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Should You Get Rid of Your Website’s Lead Forms?

ConversionXL

According to Mary Meeker’s 2016 Internet Trends Report , 6 of the world’s top 10 most used apps are messaging apps. And according to a 2016 study from Twilio that looked at 6,000 consumers around the globe, the average consumer now has 3 different messaging apps on their phone’s home screen, and sends an average of 3 messages each hour.

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How to Find the Top VCs for the Investment You Need

Up and Running

As we head into 2016, we leave behind a year of robust trends for venture capital—or “VC”—funding. billion in 2014 and $1.4 They invest in strong teams, massive market opportunities, and novel IP. In coming months, many entrepreneurs are looking for the best sources to help fund the startups they have planned.