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

Both Sides of the Table

The topic of the conference was “The Sharing Economy” and as I read many of the session title descriptions I realized that people would be talking more about “collaborative consumption” (think airbnb, taskrabbit, uber) than about why people are sharing more on Instragram & Snapchat. Collaboration.

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Numbers Protocol’s blockchain camera Capture App safeguards the integrity of photos

TechCrunch

The open-source Starling Framework for Data Integrity was launched to protect the veracity of online content using blockchain technology, creating “birth certificates” for photos and videos and tracking any changes made to them. The app is available for download in the App Store and Google Play. presidential primaries in March.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. Having a high position can make a huge difference to “organic” downloads.

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Playbyte’s new app aims to become the ‘TikTok for games’

TechCrunch

At its core, Playbyte’s game creation is powered by its lightweight 2D game engine built on web frameworks, which lets users create games that can be quickly loaded and played even on slow connections and older devices. The app is a free download on the App Store.

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10 Ways to Boost Your Startup’s Customer Acquisition

StartupNation

It provides the framework to grow your business by helping you to gain new customers while you retain the ones you have. Consider collaborating with influencers. Publish blog posts, e-books and other downloadable content, as well as an engaging newsletter. Building a customer acquisition strategy. Offer amazing content.

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Zilliz, the startup behind the Milvus open source vector database for AI apps, raises $60M, relocates to SF

TechCrunch

The company said that downloads have now passed the 1 million mark, compared to 300,000 a year ago, with production users growing by 300% in the same period — however, it didn’t disclose its active user numbers. On the first of these, Zilliz’s breakout product, the open-source Milvus, has boomed.

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In the Vault: Turning Developers Into Clients With Marco Argenti From Goldman Sachs

Andreessen Horowitz

And also in collaboration with Microsoft, we built some of the largest online stores back then in the U.S. So, we were doing something like 70 million downloads a day or something like that. In fact, we launched a little bit before Amazon. Obviously, we weren’t as successful. And that was relatively successful.