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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

This begs the question: how much time do users spend in Snapchat today compared to other social networks, and how will that number change over time? And to top it all off, Snap isn’t offering voting rights to public market investors, which should discount the stock price further. People still have to eat, work, etc.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

His friends at General Electric said he was wasting his time on the gas combustion engine because the world was going electric. -- ErrantX 215 days ago | link. The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different. I cant keep count of the number of people who I talk to on a daily basis online or in person, at networking events, etc.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

Brandsforce is a plug & play social media marketing platform that generates conversations, engagements and measurable actions on social networks. Our platform extracts the real value from social networks, empowering online businesses to attract, engage and understand users like never before. How do we do this?

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. How about ABAPer?

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Asymmetric – Before Twitter most social networks had “symmetric” relationships meaning that when somebody wanted to follow you, you had to follow them back in order for us to be connected. They know this because Twitter is social, open & asymmetric. Twitter = amazing business & marketing engine for companies.

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