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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

This begs the question: how much time do users spend in Snapchat today compared to other social networks, and how will that number change over time? And to top it all off, Snap isn’t offering voting rights to public market investors, which should discount the stock price further. People still have to eat, work, etc.

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Six Nudges: Creating A Sense Of Urgency For Higher Conversion Rates!

Occam's Razor

Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. Social cues to the rescue. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. Express did a reverse lookup based on my IP Address, matched that with their stores, then checked their ERP system for inventory and got me the answer. Social cues to the rescue.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

Both Sides of the Table

easy sharing (through social networks or platforms like YouTube). social amplification (from which memes are spread) by Twitter and the like; and … commenting. Have a say, a vote. Think American Idol voting, where the audience gets to feel like they’re participating. means specifically one thing.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

This isnt trivial - believing in the projections and selling your passion and networking to find investors are all really hard. I cant keep count of the number of people who I talk to on a daily basis online or in person, at networking events, etc. social network/web analysis/etc. This is utter bullshit. Not always!

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Why Lawsuits Are On the Rise at Startups and What To Do About It

Both Sides of the Table

The simple point is that if you control 51% of your company and/or the voting rights you can avoid a lot of headache and you can still be very generous with early people who join your mission. Lawsuits are on the rise. Much money is at stake and founders have been conditioned that suing is ok.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Spend 20% of your time building a network of advisors that can help you. Warning: Typos, run-on sentences, and crappy formatting.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Big things, like obscuring the networking stack under so many countless layers of abstraction that it’s virtually impossible to even imagine what bytes are actually going over the wire.

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