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Snap's Big Winners: Spiegel, Murphy, Lasky, Benchmark, Lightspeed

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Who are the big winners after the IPO pricing of Venice, California-based Snap Inc. Obviously, co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy both have instantly been catapulted into the ranks of billionaires, with a net worth of $3.58 Lasky joined Snapchat's board in 2013. on Wednesday afternoon? billion in stock. READ MORE>>.

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Kick-Start Your eCommerce Business for $100 or Less

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Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself. Other popular tools are available at low cost, with built-in e-commerce capabilities (pay via PayPal or credit card), including this Top Ten list for 2013 , or fall back to the old standby DreamWeaver by Adobe. Open an account with PayPal.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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It would not be a big stretch to image a well run service business like this making 15-25% net profit margins. If a customer is faced with two equal choices for companies who can implement Salesforce.com – how do they choose one other than references & price? That is $12 million in profits over 3 years.

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500 Startups Presents Bitcoinference

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The conversation moves into Zeroblock’s upcoming plans to implement trading API’s, a robust front-end interface for trading, as well as goals to create a standardized protocol in connecting different exchanges (thereby leveling out bitcoin prices across the board). The ultimate plan? Be the Bloomberg of Bitcoin.

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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