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Microsoft’s Purchase Of Minecraft Maker Mojang Shows Comitment To Building Cross-Platform Appeal

YoungUpstarts

The rise and fall of companies such as Zynga and Rovio, developers of casual, mobile games “FarmVille” and “Angry Birds”, respectively, highlights the fickle nature of the consumer gaming market. TBR believes the ideas of these opportunities has merit, but are peripheral pursuits for Microsoft.

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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Apple and Facebook are both platforms , in the sense that their software and user networks are utilized by countless software developers to build their own businesses. billion to developers and Apple paid out something like $2B or so. Apple generated nearly $130B in revenue in 2011. June 5, 2012.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

But they herald a sea change in what computers are capable of doing, how they do it, and what hardware and software is needed to do it. Classic Computers – Software Updates, New Features. Now open-source code libraries and developer tools allow organizations to use and build upon the work of external communities.

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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

Couple that with Mulesoft being bought for 21x TTM revenue ( see Tomasz Tunguz analysis ) at $6.5 The irony is that the company that led the “no software” movement is the one that bought Mulesoft, a company where 1/2 of its revenue is from software installed on-premise. PCF is sold on a subscription basis.

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Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

I grew up working in flea markets, and my family was entrepreneurial, not in the tech side of things or anything, but in different ways, and was always working side projects and jobs for people as a developer. Software developers don’t have telephones. I was that hired gun in some senses. They use AdBlockers.