You heard it here first. There is a new dating app coming soon. But I am not sure if dating is the right category. Whatever category Tinder is in, the Proxtitution app should go there, too. The bros that make these kinds of things haven’t started it yet. But, trust me, they will start coding …
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In a crypto-economic trading platform: “The network becomes the exchange” Snapchat (ephemeral) bid-asks User-defined smart contracts Exchanges are regulated by the SEC and take years to gain approval. Recently, the SEC has announced that all crypto exchanges are illegal unless they register with SEC. There are two key design principles informing a market design presented …
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An Outline of an Decentralized Alternative to the Order Book A Decentralized Alternative to the Order Book Machine Zone (MZ): A $10 Billion Dollar Unicorn in the Making Edge Computing Use Cases for MZ’s (Machine Zone) Platform Machine Zone and The Perversity of Unicorn Lists Machine Zone (MZ): A $4 Billion …
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The year 2016 will be remembered as a year when titillating stories came out about Unicorn excesses — Dropbox’s Chrome Panda sculpture, Hampton Creek’s covert buy-backs of Just Mayo inventory, and Zenefits’ sex in the stairwell. This is a story about Kabam, another fallen Unicorn, and its excesses. More than just descriptive, we analyze its history to …
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If the tagline for AngelList has become “The LinkedIn for Startups”, will the tagline for Product Hunt become “The Launch Pad for AcquiHires”? To me, the acquisition of Product Hunt is another signal of the narrowing of business models for standalone apps. Product Hunt was never in the running to scale enough to attract advertisers. …
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