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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

TechCrunch LA

Nuggetverse : a web comics media startup. Snap invests $150,000 in each Yellow startup for an equity stake, and while the program does not require batch participants to integrate with Snap’s services, the company has used the program to invest in strategic areas that it has also pushed on the product side.

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Every Online User Platform Needs Revenue To Survive

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?” Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with almost three billion user accounts, all free. So let’s take a look.

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Why Venture Capital is So Much More Compelling Now

Both Sides of the Table

Think DropBox, Airbnb, Pinterest, Maker Studios, SnapChat, Tinder). The costs to start are much lower than ever (90% reduction in infrastructure costs to start a company through open source & web services) and large companies being created in many geographies.

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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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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?” Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with well over two billion user accounts, all free. So let’s take a look.

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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. So far we've been very successful in recruiting, with people from Blizzard, Apple, Snapchat, and other great companies. That's when we came up with NEXT Trucking. We're hiring.

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

Both Sides of the Table

Final le web london (june 2013) from Mark Suster. As I outlined in my talk, I believe the greatest Internet companies created over the past 15 years have been “deflationary” meaning they are driving down the prices or goods & services. Why is Collaborative Consumption Becoming a Hot Trend for Startup Companies?

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