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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007. RigUp was founded by Xuan Yong and Mike Witte in Austin, Texas in March of 2014. As you can see, that can be a big mistake.

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6 Essential Principles Of Designing a High Converting Site Search Experience

ConversionXL

I n this 2007 interview with Martin White of IntranetFocus , he says: “Recognize synonyms and different international terms. Trillion dollars in 2014 , and is only expected to grow in coming years, delivering results that use the visitor’s “local language” will become increasingly important. What do you think?

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. Scale Vertically (or “scale up”): Add resources to a single node in a system, typically involving the addition of CPUs or memory to a single computer. You can scale vertically and horizontally at the same time.

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These are the British Businesses Adopting Green and Sustainable Practices

The Startup Magazine

This was the start of the Green Arcola project, which began in 2007, that today has become a whole new enterprise of its own. In 2014 they launched their strategy which will see them become completely paperless by 2021. The ramifications of this are enormous in multiple different verticals of the business. Johne Buidings.

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SaaS Wars: Europe Awakens

Cracking the Code

Our analysis estimates that the number of SaaS companies created has grown 4x between 2007-09 and 2013-15, and the amount raised by European SaaS companies has more than doubled. To date, there have been only four major European SaaS exits (all IPOs), including QlikTech in 2010, Wix in 2013, Zendesk in 2014 and Mimecast in 2015.

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SX Startups: wrnch Expands Interaction

Austin Startup

Right now, we are working a “Magic Mirror” demo for the show that allow people to walk up to a huge, 100-foot vertically placed TV and see themselves beamed into cyberspace. In 2007, I founded GRIP to use AI (behavior trees) to create high fidelity autonomous characters capable of rich and complex behaviors.

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