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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

PC and mobile interfaces dynamically display portfolio valuations and exposures, along with system-generated investment recommendations tailored to a specific client’s financial goals and risk appetite. DLT removes the middlemen by enlisting the network of users to verify transactions. trillion by 2025, about 5% of the world’s wealth.

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[Singapore] Daylight Studios To Tap Growing Mobile Games Market With Two New Titles

YoungUpstarts

Likely encouraged by various government schemes to grow the games and animation sector , the Singapore video games industry in recent years have expanded rapidly, growing from $87 million in 2005 to $285 million in 2007. The Mobile Game Revolution. Specifically for the mobile games, worldwide revenue is forecasted to surge from US$13.2

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. Reddit, a popular website for news and discussion, was founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. Thanks to Keith Terrell, Backpacks Global ! #14- Photo Credit: Jen Wan. 14- Polaroid.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

When making technical hires, we always reach out to our network of programmer friends and ask them to sit in on interviews and review resumes with us. Have an account? Find Someone Who Knows If you’re asking this question, then it seems your first order of duty should be finding someone who can consult your hiring process.

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Diverse Lead Firms

Austin Startup

Through our strategic partnership with Atom Factory , we work together to discover, invest in and develop companies that fuel shifts in cultural trends and behaviors within an increasingly diverse global marketplace. The companies are actively vetted, coached and advised by our network. Fueled by Gayle Jobyrne and Kathryn Finney.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). First and foremost, we believed there would be a “professional” social network.

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

YoungUpstarts

With their lives perpetually tethered to the mobile web, the rise of these generations of tomorrow’s customers, managers and workers will change how we develop and consume technology. billion) in 2005. billion) in 2005. 2000 to 2005: CRM, SFA, ERP, Payroll, Analytics, etc. Macro Trend 2: Urbanization.