Companies, Startups - Strategies of Tech and Internet Giants

Pinterest- app design and business model

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A collection of articles and resources about Pinterest- app design and business model

• Article Related Pins at Pinterest: The Evolution of a Real-World Recommender System
• Article Pinterest Sees The Future
• Article Deconstructing Pinterest's reverse-image-search SEO growth hack
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Slack: business model

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A collection of resources about Slack's business model, this compilation provides an in-depth exploration of the platform's operational f...

• Article Slack wants to be more than a text-based messaging platform – TechCrunch
• Article How Slack hooks users through artificial urgency
• Article Slack picked a weird time to make it easier for bosses to download your private chats
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Snapchat - product, strategy, innovation and marketing

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Snapchat - product, strategy, innovation and marketing

• Article Snap buys another company to make AR shopping a reality - The Verge
• Article Snap to launch a new Creator Marketplace this month, initially focused on Lens Creators – TechCrunch
• Article Snapchat bulks up location-based ad targeting & launches in-store analytics tool - Marketing Land
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Telegram (messaging app) - business model

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a collection of articles about Telegram and their messaging app

• Podcast #482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature
• Article Techmeme: A deep dive into the CEO and history of Telegram
• Article Telegram (messaging app): 200,000,000 Monthly Active Users
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Platforms vs Aggregators - Tech Business Models and Strategy

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A collection of articles about the difference between Platforms vs Aggregators - Tech Business Models and Strategy

• Article Distribution and Demand – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• Note Difference between aggregators and platforms - quote from Stratechery
• Article Market-Making on the Internet – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
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Slack + Developer Ecosystem

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a collection of articles and resources looking at Slack, the messaging app for teams and communities

• Article Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From Zero to $25,000/mo - Standuply
• Website Slack API -

Uber - business model, strategy

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a collection of articles about Uber - business model and strategy

• Article Uber's New Viator Partnership Highlights Increased Fragmentation in Online Travel
• Article U.S. Army, Uber sign research agreement | Article
• Article How Uber is moving the “blue dot” and improving GPS accuracy in big cities - The Verge
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Social Chat apps - built on Snapchat’s Snap Kit platform

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A collection of articles about Social Chat apps - built on Snapchat’s Snap Kit platform

• Article #1 app YOLO Q&A is the Snapchat platform’s 1st hit – TechCrunch

Minecraft - AR game

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a collection of articles about Minecraft and their VR/ AR game

• Video Minecraft Earth: AR Game - Official Reveal Trailer
• Article Minecraft Dungeons has charm and potential, but needs lot more time in the furnace

Virtual Assistants - How to find a Personal Assistant (online)

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a collection about How to find a Personal Assistant (online) - Upwork, TaskRabbit and others

• Article 7 apps that will let you hire people to do almost anything | Popular Science
• Website Zirtual - Virtual assistant services for entrepreneurs, professionals, and small teams
• Article Double emerges from stealth with $6M to pair CEOs with remote assistants
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Houseparty - and Social Chat apps - competing vs snapchat, instagram, facebook and others

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Social Chat apps - competing vs snapchat, instagram, facebook and others

• Article Houseparty adds Heads Up in a new push into gaming and revenue - The Verge
• Article Houseparty expands beyond video chat with co-watching of live events
• Article Fortnite maker Epic acquires social video app Houseparty – TechCrunch
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Uber - profits, losses, business model, strategy

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a collection of articles about Uber - business model and strategy

• Article Uber and Lyft are losing money. At some point, we’ll pay for it. - The Washington Post
• Article Uber Spent $10.7 Billion in Nine Years. Does It Have Enough to Show for It? - Bloomberg
• Article Will Uber Ever Stop The Bleeding? - Bloomberg
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IBM and Red Hat (open source software)

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A collection of articles about IBM and Red Hat (open source software)

• Article IBM’s Old Playbook – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• Article Forget Watson, the Red Hat acquisition may be the thing that saves IBM – TechCrunch
• Article Why There Will Never Be Another Red Hat: The Economics of Open Source – Andreessen Horowitz

Dropbox

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A collection of articles about Dropbox

• Article Dropbox vs Box Comparison
• Article Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO - Bloomberg
• Article How Dropbox handles downgrades - Userflow Pro
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Invision App - Design

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a collection of articles about Invision, an app for designers

• Article InVision, valued at $1.9 billion, picks up $115 million Series F – 2018 - TechCrunch
• Article InVision takes on Adobe with the introduction of Studio – TechCrunch
• Article InVision: All 700 employees at this startup work remotely
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Dropbox - extensions, API and strategy

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A collection of articles about Dropbox - extensions, API and strategy

• Article Dropbox introduces Extensions for deeper integration with third-party tools – TechCrunch
• Article Dropbox snares HelloSign for $230M, gets workflow and e-signature – TechCrunch

Slack - competition

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a collection of articles and resources looking at Slack, the messaging app for teams and communities

• Article Move over Slack — Space is a new project management platform for developers – TechCrunch (2019)
• Article Goodbye HipChat: Slack and Atlassian Team Up on Chat Software - Bloomberg
• Article The Office-Messaging Wars Are Over. Slack Has Won. | WIRED
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Slack - engineering

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a collection of articles and resources looking at Slack, the messaging app for teams and communities

• Article The Gradual Design System: How We Built Slack Kit - Several People Are Coding
• Article How Big Technical Changes Happen at Slack

Instacart

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Food delivery app

• Article The Amazon-Whole Foods Deal Could Have Killed Instacart. Instead, The Startup Is Stronger Than Ever
• Article Instacart has raised another $200M at a $4.2B valuation | TechCrunch
• Article Instacart raises another $600M at a $7.6B valuation – TechCrunch
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Snapchat - business, stock

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Snapchat - business, stock

• Article One Tweet, Kylie Jenner Wiped Out $1.3 Billion of Snap's Market Value - Bloomberg
• Article Should cash-strapped Snapchat sell out? To Netflix? – TechCrunch
• Article NBCUniversal Quietly Sold $500 Million Stake in Snapchat

Zoom - video conferencing software, voice communication

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Zoom - video conferencing software, voice communication

• Article Refused U.S. Visa Eight Times, Zoom CEO Is Now a Billionaire - Bloomberg
• Article Zoom Had a Burn Rate Budget. So Should You. | SaaStr
• Article NYTimes: We Live in Zoom Now
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Zoom videoconferencing - use in edtech, education - tools, resources

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Zoom videoconferencing - use in edtech, education - tools, resources

• Website Zoom - Video Conferencing
• Website Class: The Virtual Classroom Built On Zoom. 50+ Online Teaching Tools for Remote Learning on Zoom
• Article Class Agreed to Acquire Blackboard Collaborate. Here’s What That Means | EdSurge News

Zoom videoconferencing - use in edtech, education - examples

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Zoom videoconferencing - use in edtech, education - examples

• Article Outschool is the newest edtech unicorn – TechCrunch
• Note Edtech: How Outschool uses Zoom for teacher-student communication
• Article Lingoda, an on-demand online language school with live instructors and Zoom classrooms, raises $68M – TechCrunch

Slack - Founding story, history

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Slack - Founding story, history, origins

• Article How did Slack Technologies manage to raise so much capital? | Quora | Jason Lemkin
• Article From 0 to $1B - Slack's Founder Shares Their Epic Launch Strategy | First Round Review
• Article The Slack origin story
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Agile - design teams, development and Business Model, Strategy

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Agile - design teams, development and Business Model, Strategy

• Article Agile Billing Guarantees Your Income — Smashing Magazine
• Article Management Theory - Lessons from 100 columns | Business | Bartleby

GitHub pages and Codespaces

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GitHub codespaces and Microsoft visual studio

• Video Codespaces - Your instant dev box in the cloud
• Article GitHub gets a built-in IDE with Codespaces, discussion forums and more
• Article GitHub’s Engineering Team has moved to Codespaces | The GitHub Blog
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Startups and the Economic Impact (USA) of the COVID19 - Coronavirus pandemic

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Startups and the Economic Impact (USA) of the COVID19 - Coronavirus pandemic

• Article Start-Ups Are Pummeled in the ‘Great Unwinding’ - The New York Times
• Article Some indie hackers are especially vulnerable in this recession (April 2020)
• Article Small Businesses Depend on the Stimulus Package. The Stimulus Will Depend on Fintech
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Clubhouse - asynchronous Video messaging, chat tool for teams

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Clubhouse - asynchronous Video messaging, chat tool for teams

• Article Andreessen Horowitz Wins VC Sweepstakes To Back Clubhouse, Still In Beta, At $100 M Valuation
• Article Clubhouse, Hype & Startups - Fred Destin

Discord - video and text chat - for gamers

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a collection of articles about the tech (and the business model) of Discord - video and text chat - for gamers

• Article Threads on Discord
• Article On Discord, Music Fans Become Artists’ Besties, Collaborators, and Even Unpaid Interns
• Article Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now - The Verge
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Slack - API - apps, developers platform

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Slack - API - apps, developers platform

• Article Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From Zero to $25,000/mo - Standuply
• Website Slack API -

Videos - creators, stars and content producers

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video - creators, stars and content producers

• Article Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy - Li's Newsletter
• Website Cameo - Personalized videos featuring your favorite stars
• Website Patreon - Best way for artists and creators to get sustainable income and connect with fans
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Mapping the Startup Ecosystem - Leading Companies, Entrepreneurs

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Mapping the Startup Ecosystem - Leading Companies, Entrepreneurs

• Article Mapping the Creator Economy
• Article Mapping “The Future of Work” Startup & Investor ecosystem

Clubhouse - tips for getting started, building an audience

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Clubhouse - tips for getting started, building an audience

• Article Tips to using Clubhouse - Notion doc

Rocket chat - alternative to Discord - chat, communication

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Rocket chat - alternative to Discord - chat, communication

• Website Rocket.Chat - The Ultimate Communication Platform
• Article The New freeCodeCamp Chat Room System – Simple, Secure, Self-hosted

Social media around audio & video messaging, chat - Clubhouse, Airchat, others

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Social media around audio & video messaging, chat - Clubhouse, Airchat, others

• Article AirChat, the buzzy new social app, could be great -- or, it could succumb as Clubhouse | TechCrunch
• Article Reddit Talk is a Clubhouse competitor for subreddits - The Verge
• Article Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now - The Verge
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Uber - interntional expansion, acquisitions, business model, strategy

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a collection of articles about Uber's international business model and strategy

• Article Uber Agrees on Southeast Asian Sale to Grab - Bloomberg
• Article Uber Acquires Chilean Grocery Delivery Cornershop for ~USD3b+

Twitter - business model, strategy, issues

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a collection of articles and research about Twitter - with a focus on their business model, strategy, and issues

• Article Market-Making on the Internet – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• Article Twitter gets its hands dirty - by Casey Newton - Platformer
• Article Twitter adopts poison pill in bid to thwart Elon Musk takeover
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Twitter - challenges, problems, issues

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Twitter - challenges, problems, issues

• Article Twitter Is Under Formal Investigation for How It Tracks Users in the GDPR Era - 2018
• Article Twitter gets its hands dirty - by Casey Newton - Platformer
• Article Internal Emails Show Twitter Struggled To Interpret Its Own Verification Rules While Hunting Trolls
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Twitter X - competition

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Twitter X - competition

• Article Lyrak to take on X by combining the best of Twitter with fediverse integration | TechCrunch
• Article Flipboard deepens its ties to the open source social web (aka the fediverse) | TechCrunch

Big Five Tech Giants

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Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon

• Article How the Frightful Five Put Start-Ups in a Lose-Lose Situation
• Article Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones | Gizmodo
• Article We are the losers in the war between Amazon and Google
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Clones, copyworks - copying UX, features and designs from competitors

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Clones, copyworks - copying UX, features and designs from competitors, TikTok, snapchat, instagram, facebook and others

• Website One Page Love - One Page Website Inspiration and Templates
• Website Supahero - Website hero section library
• Article Instagram offers creators up to $35,000 to post videos to its TikTok clone - The Verge
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