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Snap Sees Daily Active Users Increase In Q2

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the parent company of Snapchat , says its daily active users (DAU) increased by 8 percent year-over-year, to 203 million users. The social media and communication software developer announced the numbers in its second quarter 2019 financial results. Snap's revenues grew to $388M in Q2 of 2019, with a net loss of $255M for the quarter.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5

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Interview with Derek Norton, Watertower Ventures

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Derek Norton: I just closed on a new fund, worth $5M, which I raised from a group of high net worth, high profile LPs. We help companies do the same kind of thing, except with corporate development. We sat down with Derek to learn more about the new $5M fund and what it's all about. Tell us about the new fund?

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How Well Versed Are You In Startup Investor Jargon?

Startup Professionals Musings

Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat. People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. Seed-round investment.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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I also hope to lay out a way to develop a healthy degree of skepticism for the more outlandish arguments. I believe this use of cryptocurrency will develop and flourish long after the dust settles from the hype and crash of cryptocurrencies that we’re experiencing in 2017. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat.

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