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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Lightning is a network of bi-directional payment channels that allows for instant settlement between parties and routing of payments over a TOR-like p2p network settled in units of bitcoin. > 36,000 public channels . > In the world of cryptocurrency, only payment channels like Lightning allow for that level of optimization.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

It’s up from 40 minutes in July 2014. Even by July 2014, Facebook’s core application had effectively saturated the US market, with more than 80% of US adults on Facebook. Snap has introduced a panoply of well-regarded features over the years: stories, face and location filters, memories, discovery channels, etc.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

Because she understood the potential for IP-based syndicated content technology, Alex started searching for new and useful ways to put this technology to use. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices. This contributed to what was in 2014, before the move to streaming, a roughly $20 billion business.

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Should You Get Rid of Your Website’s Lead Forms?

ConversionXL

Lead capture forms made sense in an era when phone and email were the dominant communication channels. True, some companies experimented with social media as a sales channel as well. But phone calls aren’t the only traditional communication channel that messaging has set its sights on. That was up from 30% in 2014.

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Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports

Occam's Razor

You can see a specific shift in strategy starting May 2014 for Shutterstock, while we have continued to plod along at the same pace. You can get the overall traffic numbers… Which gives you a sense for how strategically you are treating this channel, and how your competitors are doing it. The metric being displayed is Visits.

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