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Snapchat Theme Drives New Playboy Issue

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In a bid for a new generation of readers, Playboy , the men's magazine best known for its long history of nude photo pictorials of women, has launched a new "non-nude" era of the publication, with a Snapchat-like front cover. Playboy said a few months ago that its first, non-nude issue would be its March issue. READ MORE>>.

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Introducing Trust, and the Importance of Product-Founder Fit

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Digital advertising spend is projected to grow 25% this year to $191 billion, and Google (69%), Facebook (59%), Snapchat (116%) and Twitter (87%) all just reported rapid growth in their year over year advertising revenues. no surprise?—?that’s that’s where the customers are. For these companies, it looks like a rosy picture.

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Hutch: Making Furniture Buying A Snap, With Beatrice Fischel-Bock

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Can a mobile app make creating and designing your space as easy as posting a selfie on Snapchat or Instagram? We send you back a photo with whatever kind of design you have chosen, which we call a �filter�, rendered in your space, and you can buy items from there. How does that work, and what's the purchase part about?

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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

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Wabisabi Design : an augmented reality game studio focused on bit-sized titles. Earlier Yellow bets skewed more toward content investments as Snapchat was scaling Discover. Stipop : a rich cross-platform chat sticker API. TRASH : an app for quickly editing social video cuts using machine learning.

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Every Online User Platform Needs Revenue To Survive

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Design a product or service that you can sell. But some of you will surely say “What about Facebook and Snapchat, who focused on growth first and are clearly successful?” Even the popular Snapchat is still struggling to generate revenue and profit. The number of current potential customers is large and growing.

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Why Unicorns Are No Longer Enough. The Battle for Hendecorns

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Then we launched our service in NYC and in just one year captured 2% of all new storage customers in our target demo in just one year with almost no marketing budget. We offered a service that has a net promoter score of 87 placing us higher than such great brands as USAA, Costco, Apple and Amazon. And then the team cracked it.

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How To Set A Balance Of User Growth Vs Profitability

Startup Professionals Musings

Design a product or service that you can sell. But some of you will surely say “What about Facebook and Snapchat, who focused on growth first and are clearly successful?” Even Snapchat is now trying hard to generate revenue. The number of current potential customers is large and growing. So let’s take a look.