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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. Facebook just reported that users spend on average 50 minutes per day (United States only) across the Facebook apps — Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp — and that this number is growing. Let’s look at each figure.

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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. The VC Software Stack — the Untouched Vertical. A (Micro) VC’s Tech Stack. *

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The Definitive Guide To (8) Competitive Intelligence Data Sources!

Occam's Razor

For example, Hitwise which chiefly relies on isp data, has a sample size of 10 million people in the United states and 25 million worldwide. Similar tools are available from Microsoft: Entity Association, Keyword Group Detection, Keyword Forecast, and Search Funnels (all at Microsoft adCenter Labs ).

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