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Why Your ‘Brilliant’ Technology Fails To Have Impact | Tom Adeyoola, Metail | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

Some friends of mine went off and did the same thing a few years later and successfully floated their business in 2012 for 500 million. It was I think the biggest startup in corporate history at the time. And went from no launch in November 2011 to launching with Tesco February 2012, which saved us, completely saved us.

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

My book aims to change that, systematically laying out concepts for startups and folks launching new products to consider. It wasn’t until 2012, at the beginning of the explosion in mobile apps, that yet another generation of dating apps would emerge. Marketplace startups often provide these opportunities to this group.