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Marketers Focus More Attention on Mobile Gaming

YoungUpstarts

In 2013, there were 909 million mobile gamers worldwide, nearly half of which resided in the Asia Pacific region, and 146 million of which came from North America. Suddenly, mobile gaming isn’t just for the anti-social, it’s for everyone. Social Integrations. She also blogs at FreshlyTechy.com.

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. June 5, 2011.

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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. For those of us that have been working in the startup and technology space for at least the past 10 years, these addresses mean two things.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years.

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A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy

abovethecrowd.com

These reasons are likely behind the struggles in GroupOn’s core Daily Deals business ( North America Third Party Revenue is down in Q4 both YOY and QOQ ). This way no one leaves the network due to excessive fees, yet you end up with a higher average rake over time due to the competitive dynamic.

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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Ted Livingston’s rollercoaster ride as CEO of hit messaging startup Kik

The Next Web

A fortnight ago, Boris interviewed Reed Hastings on his business lessons and experience, but now I’m shaking it up with a look at a 26-year-old founder who is disrupting the mobile and social networking spaces: Kik CEO and founder Ted Livingston. I went to university in Waterloo in 2005 for engineering. Yet, there was more to come.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Social media. Social networking. Social games. It was fiercely independent, and was, until its HP acquisition, one of the few PC makers still assembling computers in North America. Whats Hot Menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content.

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