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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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Elon Musk Tops Tech Billionaires In Southern California

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Topping the list at #15 was Elon Musk , who splits his time between Los Angeles and Silicon Valley, with a net worth of $13.9 billion; David Sun and John Tu , the co-founders of Fountain Valley-based Kingston Technology, shared the spot at #41, with a net worth of $4.5 billion in net worth. billion in net worth.

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Snap Set For Punishing Day On Wall Street

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Shap continues to lose money, hand over first, reporting it had a net loss of $443.1M SNAP CEO Evan Spiegel said on Tuesday the company is planning a big redesign of its Snapchat app, to broaden appeal of its app to new users. SNAP was already down around 12 percent in pre-market trading on Wednesday, falling from a close of $15.12

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

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What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. billion dollars of regional GDP.

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Should Startups Care About Profitability?

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Or you know the other one — the one where Snapchat lost $2 billion in just one quarter. The first company represents a normal software company that sells its products directly (either via sales staff or directly off of the internet). Two-f **g-billion! What a disaster! Except that they didn’t actually lose $2 billion in cash.

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How Well Versed Are You In Startup Investor Jargon?

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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. Growth hackers are the marketing equivalent of clever software hackers and are highly respected by investors. Frothy startup valuations.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. And then the world changed. KickStarter?

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