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13 tech trends to adopt before the year’s end

The Next Web

Though it’s incredibly valuable to be an early adopter of 2012′s tech trends, it won’t hurt your company to be right on time with everyone else who is just discovering them now. I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs the following question: What tech trends are you watching closely in the second half of 2012?

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Inc. To Reveal Its Inc. 500 And Inc. 5000 For 2012

YoungUpstarts

500 list is payment processor Unified Payments, which saw a whopping three-year growth rate of 23,646 percent, with other prominent brands on the list including social networking site Facebook, Yelp, yogurt maker Chobani, Giftcards.com, KIND and convenience retailer Kum & Go. “To rank among the 2012 Inc. ’s.

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How groupthink and denial can ruin startups

The Next Web

” Page obliged and in July 2012, he advised his teams to scale back and focus on core products like Android. One of The Social Network’s most memorable lines is when actor Justin Timberlake utters the words, “A million dollars isn’t cool. Groupthink.

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Facebook’s acqui-hires–$24m on four companies in H1 2012

The Equity Kicker

In its quarterly filing yesterday Facebook disclosed that it spent $24m on ‘talent focused acquisitions’ in the first half of 2012. between them, making the aggregate exit value of these acqui-hires 4.2x, which tells us that if the investors on average had a 24% stake they would have broken even on these deals.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. By the end of 2012, there were 85 million iOS and 160 million Android devices in China.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. There will also be a free networking reception at Campus on Monday, June 25th. Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. By the end of 2012, there were 85 million iOS and 160 million Android devices in China.

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