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Oscar Health Gets $400M and a $2.7B Valuation from Fidelity(forbes.com)
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by wwwong 11y ago
I'll just be blunt. Unfortunate that this tech boom has done almost nothing for the black, hispanic and other communities. ...aside from mostly being pushed out of historic community neighborhoods.
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by wwwong 11y ago
Disagree with many of these sentiments here. As a performance marketer, and someone who also was in the games industry: FB Gaming market has flattened. FB has taken numerous methods to rely less on gaming revenue. FB revenues was 10% from g
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by wwwong 11y ago
FB gaming is dead. It's not the reason why their revenue is growing.
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by wwwong 11y ago
Re: "light cavalry armies are useless against castles and fortified cities as the ones found in most of Europe" Not true, as the Chinese cities at the time were much more fortified than Europe. The Mongols were able to plunder the
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by wwwong 11y ago
Being someone who's against the obsession with pedigree in SV. I've noted a few that came up outside of the Ivies: Jan Koum, CEO/Founder of Whatsapp - San Jose State Aaron Levie, CEO/Founder of Box - USC Suhail Doshi, CE
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by wwwong 12y ago
I met this team a while back. All good people, very smart, but unfortunately seemed more focused on being a silicon valley startup than building a business in commercial real estate. As indicated by the topics discussed on the site's b
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by wwwong 13y ago
Tim Cook was COO of Apple before taking over as CEO. Steve Jobs may have help bring the iPod, iPhone and iPad to the world. But someone else had to figure out how to get those millions of devices into hands of customers.
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by wwwong 13y ago
Keep your eye out for upcoming updates to Dropbox for Business. Looks like upcoming features will cover most of your points: https://www.dropbox.com/business/two-dropboxes
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by wwwong 13y ago
So 'growth hacking' has grown to encompass the run of the mill SEO strategy.
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by wwwong 13y ago
credit cards only make up 10% of what's actually in my wallet. Now if they could minimize health insurance cards, loyalty cards, etc.. etc... then we're talking. With that said. I still signed up :-)
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by wwwong 13y ago
I like the double meaning of coin: 1) Represents money 2) Creating a new phrase - or way to think about credit cards
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by wwwong 13y ago
Nice! Great to read your experience from creating a product to launching it. Also glad to win over another developer to not thinking that all marketing is BS ;-) Some tips from a marketer: +Get analytics set up! I see that you've only
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by wwwong 13y ago
Coming from the games industry, people who work on games work on them for the love of making games, not the money.
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by wwwong 13y ago
The overwhelming majority of revenue comes in the first weeks of a game launch. For a major franchise like this, you safely know what minimum dollar amount you'll make. Invest in market for hopes of a big hit. Sure, ROI is tough. But t
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by wwwong 13y ago
For a landing page, this is pretty bad unless you're getting a ton of irrelevant traffic from press or other distribution channels. Hard to imagine what 99.5% of the traffic is doing on the website.
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by wwwong 13y ago
Having witnessed the eras of gentrification in the mission district (my family has a small business around 20th and mission), the same people that are complaining that 'techies are forcing them out' are the same people that forced
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by wwwong 13y ago
At the end of the day, Apple's goal isn't to get rich off the App Store. It's to do what they can with the App Store to continue driving sales of iPhones and iPads. At the moment, what they believe is that by promoting apps (
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by wwwong 13y ago
Happy to elaborate? What would you like to know? As for finding an SEO/SEM expert, typically best to go by referral. Most SEO/SEM experts that you'll find on google/forums will run you through templated best practices. Best to work with som
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by wwwong 13y ago
Why wouldn't updating the website make a dent again? Landing page optimization is a huge forcus for any online commerce company because updating a website (design, content, flow) does make a dent.
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by wwwong 13y ago
I've been doing SEM for five years and worked with the full range of google reps. Quite simply, don't ask reps for advice on a product they've never actually used (as in, with real money). You're better off investing in a proven SEM expert
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by wwwong 13y ago
Usually, this is what happens when someone get's so caught up with 'Growth Hacking' they forget about UX.
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by wwwong 14y ago
If we're being nitpicky, then 'hammered' would be more descriptive than 'decimated'. Decimated would imply only a -10% drop if we stick to it's figurative definition
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by wwwong 14y ago
Completely agree. My favorite 'startup' that's 'just a website', handsdown: Slickdeals. That forum probably pulls in more revenue than 99% of startups.