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The potential of Mini Apps to disrupt App Distribution as we know it

VC Cafe

App distribution is broken in todays landscape. According to data by Appfigures published on Techcrunch , global consumer spending in mobile apps and games reached $127 billion across the App Store and Google Play in 2024, up 15.7% In addition, global app downloads were down by 2.3%, compared with 2023, reaching nearly 110 billion.

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Seduced By Growth, But Terminal Scale Still Matters

Agile VC

Looking back at 2015, the standout theme in the VC/startup ecosystem was unicorn hunting. We started the year enraptured by the “Age of Unicorns” with this cover of Fortune in January 2015 : Illustration: Jeremy Enecio. But clearly 2015 saw the bloom come off the rose for this group of companies broadly.

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Microsoft’s Purchase Of Minecraft Maker Mojang Shows Comitment To Building Cross-Platform Appeal

YoungUpstarts

The software generated by thousands of developers, both at Mojang and independent developers aligned with Mojang, will be supported by Microsoft’s ample resources and global distribution network.

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How to Manage Supply Chain Planning Like a Pro

YoungUpstarts

Transportation partners play an enormous role in the supply chain as they bring products into distribution centers and sometimes directly to customers. For example, data on weather, temperature, accidents, and global political issues can be used to predict potential supply chain setbacks. Follow him on Twitter @kickstartseach.

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13 Sites You Love Built With Ruby On Rails

YoungUpstarts

As for 2015, the number of its users reached the 6 million point. Used mostly for code, this repository hosting service also offers all source code management and distributed revision control functionality. This e-commerce global marketplace knows how to do it! Probably, the best-known photography community ever.

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

With hundred of thousands of global practitioners, the supply of ideas and best practices is endless. Entrepreneur Prerna Gupta believes that there’s a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing “Lean” principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience.

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Accel 2021 Euroscape: On the path to global dominance?

Cracking the Code

Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. The $900M of SaaS VC funding in 2015 now represents less than Europe's largest financing round, with Celonis raising $1B in June this year. of market capitalization.

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