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10 Tools for Understanding and Dissecting an Industry

VC Cafe

Wouldn’t it be great if you could quickly understand what’s going in mobile gaming, SaaS, marketplaces, etc? There’s quite a range of information sources from curated reports to aggregated data. The tool aggregates various publicly available datasets and helps you plot them on graphs (see example below).

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

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a leading Israeli provider of highly integrated network processors optimized for mobile backhaul, 3G and 4G wireless and wireline broadband networks. By 2015 we see more than 50 million femtocells being shipped annually with WCDMA femtocells making up the bulk of the market,&# Aditya Kaul, of Mobile Networks, ABI Research, said.

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9 Big Businesses That Began In College

YoungUpstarts

Others, like Def Jam, have been transformed through mergers and acquisitions. 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.

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How Important Is The Idea?

Rob Go

ThePoint wasn’t successful, but what was right about it was the mechanic around aggregating buyer demand towards a tipping point, and how powerful that can be. Paypal was a merger of two companies, one of which was focused on mobile payments.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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