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Online Gaming, Mobile Entertainment And The Land Of Opportunity In Video Game Design

YoungUpstarts

Thanks to Moore’s Law – that famous formula stating that processing power will double every two years — the nostalgic, cumbersome videogame console of old has vanished only to be replaced by the invisible sinews of the world wide web and the sleek smartphone. And such business is very profitable.

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Comparing Two SaaS Models: Hubspot and Moz

Version One Ventures

At first glance, Hubspot and Moz are very similar companies: both are popular marketing platforms, use web-based subscription models, and primarily target the SMB market (although larger brands use both). News Hubspot Initial public offering IPO Moz Software as a service Unbounce'

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Comparing Two SaaS Models: Hubspot and Moz

Version One Ventures

At first glance, Hubspot and Moz are very similar companies: both are popular marketing platforms, use web-based subscription models, and primarily target the SMB market (although larger brands use both). News Hubspot Initial public offering IPO Moz Software as a service Unbounce'

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10 Positive Signs For Starting Your Own Business Now

Startup Professionals Musings

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Statistica reports that almost 20 percent more companies went public in 2018 versus 2017. I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. The median deal size is back over $100 million.

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Web 2.0 companies not producing cash?

Eric Friedman

FT has an interesting look at “web 2.0″ Together with the US economic downturn and a shortage of initial public offerings, the failure has damped the mood in internet start-up circles. ″ companies and how they are not producing cash. I am not sure that I agree…

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The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again

Steve Blank

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. No one doubts that social networks and web and mobile applications are reinventing commerce. We are seeing this bubble unfold by the book.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.

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