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Every Online User Platform Needs Revenue To Survive

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Design a product or service that you can sell. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits. That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money.

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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

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Component design – computers need computer chips in order to compute, and computer chips have to be designed by someone. Device design – all of the major computing components – CPU, RAM, connectivity, display, battery, etc. – need to be enclosed into a coherently designed device. Value Chain.

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How To Set A Balance Of User Growth Vs Profitability

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Design a product or service that you can sell. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits. That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money.

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9 Technology Innovations Made In The USA

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At the same time, it’s a smart manufacturing decision, as American-made quality usually stands head and shoulders above outsourced competition. Like all of FreeWave’s products, Spartan hardware is designed and manufactured in the company’s Boulder, Colorado factory.

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Interview with Dan Yomtobian, Scour

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Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us. It seems like you'd be somewhat competitive to what they do. What is Scour?

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Close5: eBay's San Diego Move Into The Mobile, Local Market

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That''s a major differentiator in the way we''ve designed this. That''s the part of eBay and our infrastructure that give us a competitive edge. That gives us a competitive edge, and takes away from something that is very anonymous to something more friendly and neighborly. That''s a big difference from many websites.

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Hike Messaging App Launches Globally To Change The Game With Videos, Photos & Emoticons

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Hike is a person to person messaging app and mobile portal which Yahoo Japan is interested in working with. Competition? How unique are you from the competition? One more thing that makes us stand out is our design and the way we approach building hike. Several, most close are WhatsApp, Line, Kik. Challenges?