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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

Prerna began her startup journey after leaving a job as a management consultant, and launched Yaari, a youth-oriented social network in India. With this approach to establishing and tracking milestones, ReadyTalk launched its beta of UbiMeet.com in March 2015. Come hear about them live at the 2015 Lean Startup Conference.

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13 Sites You Love Built With Ruby On Rails

YoungUpstarts

As for 2015, the number of its users reached the 6 million point. This is a social network for asking and answering sent question – both from anonymous and identified users. Your best helper is CouchSurfing – a social networking and hospitality exchange website. Probably, the best-known photography community ever.

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Small Businesses A Great Fit For The New Nimble Marketplace

YoungUpstarts

Advancements in device technologies and mobile networks are sparking the use of mobile devices by shoppers at every point on the path to purchase. Asia Pacific alone has been seeing unparalleled m-commerce growth – in 2015, 46 percent of consumers reported making a mobile purchase in the past 3 months(7). Social Commerce.

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The Future Of SEO And Online Visibility

YoungUpstarts

Many people are not using search results they are using social networks to see what topics are trending and information about what they are looking for. Social media has taken over how people search. Google, YouTube and Facebook are the social networks most people use to see search results.

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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. And most notably absent is building a network. One that provides everything that a big, valuable, growing network should.

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Facebook As The Ultimate Surveillance Machine

Feld Thoughts

It explains, in detail, how easy it was for any developer to get massive amounts of data from the Facebook Graph API between 2010 and 2015 (where Ben suggests that Facebook was willing to give everything away.) .” For a more balanced, but equally intense view, Ben Thompson at Stratechery has a long post titled The Facebook Brand.

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Marketers Focus More Attention on Mobile Gaming

YoungUpstarts

And 2015 is expected to exceed that same growth with some projecting as much as $40 billion in revenue by 2017. Here are just a few ways that might be manifested in 2015: More Brands Advertising. Social Integrations.

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