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The top 10 companies investing billions in the Metaverse

VC Cafe

The future of social media and 3D interaction is the biggest priority to Facebook. It goes beyond the change of name, to reflect the company’s intention to become fully metaverse focused within 5 years – Facebook is investing billions and hiring 1,000 people in EMEA to build their vision for our future online social interactions.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. (If

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

Let me drop a few names and you will get the picture: Adyen, Booking.com (acquired by Priceline), Distimo, Mendix, Shapeways, Spilgames, Takeaway.com, TravelBird, WeTransfer and Qandidate. We are the most active Twitter country in the world (measured by tweets per account) and the third most socially networked. Serious talent.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. Ive spoken in some detail about a specific pivot that we went through at IMVU , when we decided to abandon the instant messaging add-on concept, and switch to a standalone instant messaging network. Thank you for your nice posting.

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The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

In talking with Mary Poppendieck about it, she said that the Chief Engineer role at 3M was called a "Product Champion" The name is less important than understanding the depth of competence that this person has, and what it takes to build it. There are some good anecdotes about Chief Engineers in the Toyota Product Development Book.

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

Startup Lessons Learned

All I see is a name, an icon, a price, the developers name, and a review star-rating. This can even vary by category, as people apply different criteria to games vs. utilities vs. social networking apps. Even with only a few months of development, third parties have crammed every single category in the store full of apps.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Who doesnt want to see their name in print? Now that were beginning our first marketing, the key partners we need have heard our name long enough to trust us. Launching is about creating circles within circles (groups of people that connect) and social networking, word of mouth, and real-world advertising are all contributing factors.