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Steve Would Be Proud: How Apple Won The War Against Flash

techcrunch.com

Late Thursday, an extraordinary thing happened: Adobe announced in a blog post that it would not provide Flash Player support for devices running Android 4.1 , and that it would pull the plugin from the Google Play store on August 15. It’s tough to believe now, but at one point, Flash on mobile devices was actually considered a feature.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. They have have raised $2-3 million, built a product that has some amount of market traction and got to annualized revenues of around $1 million.

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TheLuxeNomad.com Pivots Business Model, Moves Away From Flash Sales

YoungUpstarts

If there’s a sure sign that shows how interest in online flash sales have waned, it’s how many daily deal sites have either deadpooled or pivoted away from that particular business model. “Initially, our main focus was on flash sales which worked well as a USP because these were deals you could not find elsewhere. .

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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Both companies generate direct revenue from their platform in the form of a revenue share / platform tax (typically 30%) on software and digital goods sold through the respective platforms. Facebook’s direct platform revenue accounted for about 15% of the company’s overall sales whereas Apple’s was less than 1%.

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Why it’s nice to compete against a large, profitable company

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The insight is: The profitable revenue stream is a prison. A company with a large, profitable, growing revenue stream betrays facts useful to a startup: There’s a huge market to be had (else it wouldn’t be large and growing). The big profitable revenue stream is the goose that’s laying the golden eggs.

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5 Tips To Boost Your SEO In A Competitive Online Environment

YoungUpstarts

It is super important to make sure your site functions correctly on mobile devices and does not rely on outdated technology like Flash. Under his leadership Creative Signals has grown to a company with over 40 clients in 6 countries and over $2 million in annual revenue. The world is going mobile.

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Founders Interview: Flash Pack

The Startup Magazine

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews, we sat down with Lee Thompson and Radha Vyas, the co-founders of Flash Pack , a lifestyle travel company specialising in adventure trips for solo travelers in their 30’s – 40’s. . Flash Pack turned over its first £ 1 million in 2016/17 and grew to £4 million revenue in 2017/18.

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