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THE TECH 'TITANIC': How red-hot startup Fab raised $330 million and then went bust
Business Insiderbusinessinsider.comDropbox had initially been built on Amazon’s cloud platform, and the product was growing so fast that the hosting bills had become very expensive.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Increasing desire for removal of communication middlemen
Anthony Pompliano • I'm Launching A New Fund...

In data and analytics, Bloomberg is being challenged by a raft of start-ups. Some of them target smaller investors like me who baulk at paying Bloomberg’s US$24,000 subscription fee. Others target bigger customers who want to go deeper into more specialised data than Bloomberg supports. I use two alternatives—Koyfin and Sentieo.
Marc Rubinstein • Disrupting Bloomberg
Making tech human
Max Beauroyre • 3 cards
If you start a startup that can only reach users by doing deals with big companies, the default outcome will be that you run out of money and die while waiting for them to make up their minds.
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