When Snap made headlines last year for surpassing Facebook’s video viewership, its achievement of the 10-billion-video-views-per-day milestone Read More
The increasing interplay of video and social media
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Wrap-Up of the inaugural SplashX LA on January 19, 2017
Six months ago, SplashX debuted in Oakland. On January 19, 2017, the LA inauguration of SplashX was launched. Read More
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This Will Be the Last Article You Read
If the Internet had a voice, I am fairly certain it would sound like the HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Read More
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Top 10 lessons learned articles in 2012
While 2010 and 2011 were the most recent years in which entrepreneurs had the upper hand over venture Read More
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The network effect isn’t good enough….
Note: I’m pleased to have co-authored this post with Sangeet Paul Choudary, who analyzes business models for network businesses at Platformed.info. Follow Read More
At Vator’s first Spark event, the focus was on gamification. Here’s the video of the panel: “How startups Read More
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How Sports Infects Your Brain
How Sports Infect Your Brain by Nir Eyal in Users Note: I co-authored this post with Andrew Martin and David Ngo. It originally Read More
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Never take your eyes off this hacker metric
If you’re like me, you’ve had enough of the Facebook IPO story. For tech entrepreneurs struggling to build stuff, the Read More
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Spotting the next Facebook
Facebook will sell shares Friday in one of the biggest tech IPOs in history. New investors will gobble up Read More
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Spotting the Next Facebook
Today Facebook will sell shares in one of the biggest tech IPOs in history. New investors will gobble up the Read More
2012 05-01 vator tv -science of gamification v01b-slideshare View more presentations from Michael Wu PhD The first keynote Read More
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Billion-dollar mind trick; How Instagram hooked users
Yin asked not to be identified by her real name. A young addict in her mid-twenties, she lives Read More
The No. 1 and 2 questions I typically ask start-ups when they’re getting started is: How do you Read More