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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

In order to achieve 20x growth, Snap needs grow both of those metrics 4–5x. In summary: Snap’s current business doesn’t justify a $20B valuation. How can one justify a $20B valuation for Snap? The product that could most likely justify Snap’s $20B valuation is Spectacles. Let’s look at each figure.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. Sam began drawing out plans for a new way to provide storage after he had horrific experiences with traditional storage after the storm.

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

David Teten

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. Why is it now more feasible to use technology in the VC investing process?

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24 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industries That Are Ripe For Disruption

Hearpreneur

Look at, for example, how fast an average 10-year old can manage to learn a complex video game (which is, after all, essentially just a complex decision algorithm), yet how difficult the teaching of basic algebra seems to be in our schools. 9- Online management and accountability software. Thanks to Kenny Trinh, Netbooknews ! #9-

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Cracking The Code: Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. 80 percent voted “Yes” 6) Evolution trumps design (Steve) Artificial Intelligence algorithms will be necessary for each great invention (e.g., Cracking The Code on Facebook.