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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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. Mobile Usage: 8% of 2010 query volume (mobile app download growth of 344% YoY). What They Do: Travel search engine.

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Putting Twitter’s IPO in Perspective

Agile VC

The emergence of mobile platforms has broadened the array of internet-enabled businesses somewhat, and overall it obviously marks a massive shift in computing platforms. Google, Facebook, and Twitter have each created a new audience-based paradigm and thus have created and dominated a new segment of advertising. Growth IPOs Are Back.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. And to top it all off, Snap isn’t offering voting rights to public market investors, which should discount the stock price further. Now she’s on it every day!

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9 Big Businesses That Began In College

YoungUpstarts

Sean Fanning developed Napster, one of the first aggregated and user-friendly peer-to-peer music file sharing platforms, when he was just a freshman at Boston’s Northeastern University. And we’re sure Zuckerberg, who still looks and dresses like a college sophomore, is only just getting started.

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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!

Occam's Razor

Click on the site link, go browse around, go to their social pages, checkout the mobile app, then write down the six metrics you would choose. Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. They stink when it comes to user experience, even more so on mobile. If you want to play along. Don’t read what I’ve chosen.

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Heat Maps: What Are They Good For (Besides Looking Cool)?

ConversionXL

look at mobile and desktop separately). Even if you do look at it to see if it supports your suspicions, don’t put too much stock in it. Click maps show you a heat map comprised of aggregated click data. It’s also easy to take in aggregate click data quickly and see broad trends. Click Maps. Image Source).

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). return on investment after 3.5