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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. 2016/2017 Spectacles — capture video on the glasses. Let’s look at each figure. years to grow its user base 4x. Manipulate, share from the phone.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

It was 2016. Our conversation shifted toward discussing the problems within the podcast industry, specifically podcast apps, and how we might solve those issues. Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. So people could know that we have a.co as the official name.

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Is Click Fraud Devouring Your Ad Budget?

ConversionXL

Some networks are highly sophisticated, and organisers disguise their IP addresses. If you conduct some intricate research (detailed below), you may be able to identify the IP address of competing businesses. Loads of PPC platforms ( Google Ads included) allow you to blacklist IP addresses. . Low or non-existent conversions.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

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. Peacock didn’t sound as good but Conure another name for parakeet sounded good and passed the IP/trademark test. Thanks to, Conure, LLC !

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Going Global: 8 Things to Consider If You Want to Expand Your Business

Up and Running

What you may not have seen is the geographical information that tells you how many visits and conversions you’ve had from anywhere in the world. and are getting a lot of traffic and conversions from China, it may be worth looking into why this is happening. See Also: How to Do Market Research. See Also: How to Find a Business Partner.

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Austin AI startups raised more than $50 Million in 2017

Austin Startup

The enterprise focus has a tough time showing their own IP versus the vertical business solutions have limited total addressable market. Million in their Series A led by Khosla ventures in Nov 2016. Enterprise platforms are also looking at various domains to excel at but they are still focused on the enterprise selling.

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Startup Benchmarks

VC Cafe

One question that keeps coming up when speaking with early stage entrepreneurs when it comes to funding, is what metrics the company needs to hit to raise seed/series A/B etc: What’s a good conversion rate? What should our MRR growth be? Is my churn rate below the category average? Source: The SaaS Napkin.

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