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Scale of Messaging Landscape 2017

VC Cafe

This post is just my own learning process about this subject and doesn’t cover the rapidly growing bot ecosystem or the vertical messaging apps (startups like Crew ). billion people in 2017, an increase of 15.5% Source: Messaging App Usage Worldwide: eMarketer’s Updated Forecast, Leaderboard and Behavioral Analysis.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone. Global smartphone revenue is about $420B. To be clear, I can’t forecast the details of how an augmented reality OS should work. 2016/2017 Spectacles — capture video on the glasses.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Similar companies more focused on later-stage investors include Avention , Bureau Van Dijk , Dow Jones , FactSet , Genesis , S&P S&P Global Market Intelligence , DueDil , Core 2 Group , D&B Hoovers , InsideView , LexisNexis , Pitchbook , Preqin , PrivCo , Thomson Reuters , and Unquote. A (Micro) VC’s Tech Stack. *

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DataRails Hires David Rosenberg as New VP of Customer Success

The Startup Magazine

He has a wealth of experience in the data vertical, having served in previous roles at companies such as Intel, AllScripts, and Vision.bi. Others in that cohort included Zviki Shimon (CFO), Yair Areli (senior VP of global sales), Nir Mandel (VP of product management), and Aviv Canaani (VP of marketing). ” Product Focus.

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