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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

We chose to integrate our product closely with Pinterest, which was the talk of the town in the summer of 2012, and allow our users to do more with their carefully curated photos. Brazil, with a population of 200M and Mexico with 120M are now in our top 5 download countries. These, too, were highly effective. Isn’t that fun?

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The Investors Guide to SXSW 2019

Austin Startup

It’s stocked with free food, drinks and wifi but the real reason you want to be there is because we’ve curated all of the top entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators at SXSW and invited them to stop by. Come check out tech through a military lens. See hundreds of exhibitors and demonstrations across every industry and technology.

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their One Prediction for Business in 2021

Hearpreneur

The thing is, businesses will start to have curated content and feeds to attract more consumers, and introduce their services or product to a larger market. At Whom Home, we are in a fortunate position of having a warehouse located in Mexico, which has allowed us to continue operations throughout almost the whole time of the pandemic.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. But Friendster’s computer systems couldn’t keep up with the explosive growth (reportedly due to the complexity of the security model set up to control connections, privacy and authenticity of users) so MySpace was hot on the heels and swept up the market in a very rapid ascent.