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Every Online User Platform Needs Revenue To Survive

Startup Professionals Musings

A question that I still hear debated often is whether a new online platform startup growth strategy should focus on user count or profits. 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?”

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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

TechCrunch LA

The 10 startups in Yellow’s third batch include: Brightly : a media platform and community that promotes ethical and sustainable brands. Nuggetverse : a web comics media startup. Nuggetverse : a web comics media startup. Stipop : a rich cross-platform chat sticker API. Veam : a social network built around AirDrop.

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7 Steps To A Memorable New Venture Marketing Rollout

Startup Professionals Musings

Even with instant two-way communication via the Internet and mobile phones, your greatest new solution or service won’t found or properly recognized without marketing. Should you be buying key words from search engines, building fabulous web content, blasting out e-mail campaigns, or putting all your efforts into viral videos or social media?

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Interview with Lidia Yan, NEXT Trucking

socalTECH

Even though my family was reasonably more advanced, they were using a system which was still running on DOS, in black and blue, and was not even web-based. When we started the business, we really didn't have a lot of funding, but it made a lot of sense, and we got lots of drivers on the platform. We're hiring.

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The Coming Shift in Enterprise Software

Both Sides of the Table

The most common theme of being a startup in today’s world is that the computing environment and platforms change so rapidly that only the best equipped teams survive the transitions (think Facebook’s shift to mobile or Snapchat’s embrace of augmented reality). Think about Snapchat.

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

Both Sides of the Table

By making it easier to capture value for goods & services that ordinary people provide and by creating a means of storing value today that can be used in the future — currencies have literally changed society and the world. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Enter blockchain.

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