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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

The second category is composed of companies that have developed a unique IP locally and marketed it worldwide - typically in the gaming, software, security or mobile sectors. Business users need faster and faster response rate to derive the most value from information. mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Prepared for blitzscaling, but neither required nor expected : Blitzscaling typically means prioritizing user growth over revenue growth, and revenue growth over profitability. Tim O’Reilly, CEO, O’Reilly Media, argues , “Blitzscaling isn’t really a recipe for success but rather survivorship bias masquerading as a strategy.”

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The Creator Economy is rising, but challenges abound

VC Cafe

New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators , Eric Feng. In my days as a product manager, the conventional rule for user generated content was the 1% rule. 90% of users are passive readers, 9% might engage in rating/commenting and 1% of users generate content. ” Eric Feng.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

By day he works on web and social media for HP. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I plotted the growth in capacity of magnetic platter hard drives and flash drives back in 2006 or so, and saw that flash would overtake magnetic media in 2016.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

Snap’s revenue is a function of two numbers: number of users, and average revenue per user (ARPU). User Growth Snap’s user growth came to a near stop after Instagram launched a direct clone called Stories in September of 2016: Snap’s daily active users grew just 3% in Q4 2016. years to grow its user base 4x.

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Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time

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Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! 38 New Social Media Resources You May. 38 New Social Media Resources You May. work with the world’s leading pharmaceutical, bioscience, and medical device com.

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Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time

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Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! 38 New Social Media Resources You May. 38 New Social Media Resources You May. Here' the article: [link] Seriously, thanks. Groupon Adds Self-Serve Deal Platform.

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