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A butterfly flaps its wings and you make a sale

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

It's easy to be taken in by the idea of the Butterfly Effect : That a butterfly gently flapping its wings in the jungles of Madagascar can indirectly cause a Typhoon off the coast of Jakarta. It's worse on the Internet. Or, updating for modern-day relevancy, Naomi Dunford pounds a curse word into a Wordpress and Brian Clark makes $172.

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Disrupting Finance From Above: Wealthfront

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I can ping Madagascar from my desktop in California in 368ms, but it takes 72 hours for a U.S. This past spring, Benchmark spent a week in China meeting with the leading Chinese Internet companies. Like Google, Amazon, ebay, and Facebook, the leading Internet companies in China are interested in disrupting payments.

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