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Deal Hunting On The Move With Shooger

YoungUpstarts

Shooger is a free, community-driven web and mobile deal-hunting application that gives users the ability to find and share deals instantly with other Shooger users. You can follow real people and their real deals – It’s a great big mobile reality show that saves you money.”. Then again, just maybe. A Sweet Deal.

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Disrupting Finance From Above: Wealthfront

abovethecrowd.com

Shouldn’t our access to technology and scale lead to lower rates than say Bulgaria? Alipay now claims to be the world’s largest mobile payment solution , with 100 million users, and 2.78B transactions for a total volume of $150B. If you look at the graph below, U.S. fees can be as much as 4.5X The same companies operate there and here.

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Twitter Link Roundup #111 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

crowdSPRING’s 12 Questions Interview: Meet Svetlana (Sofia, Bulgaria) – [link]. A Basic Guide To Choosing Colors For The Mobile Web – [link]. Design Studios: The Good, The Bad and the Science – [link]. 60+ Most creative business cards – [link]. 35 Excellent Icon Design Tutorials – [link].

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From Israel to Pakistan, Community is Key When Building a Startup (Google I/O)

VC Cafe

It created awesome companies, but the army doesn’t do ecommerce, or much mobile, which are now the biggest growth engines in startups. Jeff – we look at mobile, consumer Internet, games and SaaS. Jehan – in Pakistan, we have 120 million mobile subscribers. Bridgette: Eden, what made you start the junction?

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Facebook Acquires Israel’s Snaptu For an Estimated $60-70 Million

VC Cafe

In 2010 not "very smart" feature phones - handsets that are dumber than smartphones - comprised over 75 percent of the mobile market. with less competition and a large market, Snaptu has been able to generate revenues through mobile ads and operated a revenue share with its partners. source: [link].

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Janvest Wants to Fill the Seed Investment Gap in Israel (Interview)

VC Cafe

In fact, Israel is about to pass this new Angel’s Law, which is going to incentivize local investors in Israel to put money into early stage start-ups rather than dumping cash into shopping centers in Romania or Bulgaria. pre-revenue/no prototype/mobile app only, etc). VC Cafe: Do you have any minimum criteria for investment?

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Create High-Impact Data Visualizations: Nine Effective Strategies

Occam's Razor

UK, Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia. The website and visualization will work on your mobile device (yea!), (This is embarrassing but I was surprised how big Italy is, and how small Sweden is.). The clusters of countries next to each other, for the sake of cleaner lines, all by itself has a built-in message. Cyprus and Ireland.

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