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Six Nudges: Creating A Sense Of Urgency For Higher Conversion Rates!

Occam's Razor

In-stock status. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. In-stock status. Only 15 left in stock. Or, 1 in-stock in the REI store next to your office. Sometimes, by using one of the multitude of price aggregators, you can have an understanding of where your pricing is at an item level.

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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). Founding Date: 2004. 2010 Net Income: $8 million.

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AI Enthusiasm is Not a Bubble and Even if it was We Wouldn’t Necessarily Know it Yet

Hunter Walker

It’s Very Likely That Artificial Intelligence Will Be Worth More In Aggregate Than is Currently Being Invested (Just Unevenly Distributed) In kindergarten my daughter learned to not ‘yuck’ someone’s ‘yum.’ Perhaps scooters and other micro mobility startups of the last decade are an example of this?)

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The latter are included in free cash flow whereas the former are excluded, since they’re one-time in nature and it’s possible stock is used instead of cash for acquisitions. Keep in mind Yipit is an indirect competitor in the daily deals space (essentially a meta aggregator of deals sites), but the analysis is sound IMO.

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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. But at its base level, ubiquitous computing or “mobile” hasn’t actually changed that much from the desktop web when it comes to fundamental business models.

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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.