Sat.Jun 29, 2013 - Fri.Jul 05, 2013

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Peak Smart Phone: What Happens to the App Economy When Smartphone Penetration Reaches 100%?

Tom Tunguz

We’re already seeing the impact to hardware vendors of peak smart phone. Over the past six months, Apple, Samsung and HTC share prices have fallen 20 to 25%. These share prices have tumbled because smart phone penetration is hurtling towards 70% in the US. True saturation has occurred in certain segments: 87% of 30 to 49 year olds with income greater than $75k own a smart phone.

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Minor opportunity improvements

CloseSaaS

A few improvements to "Opportunities" have been launched.

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The Compounding Returns of Content Marketing: The Data Behind Why Persistence Pays Off in Blogging

Tom Tunguz

It is easy to write off content marketing as a waste of time. Effectiveness is difficult to measure; it is time consuming and the payback period on the investment is uncertain. But unlike most forms of paid marketing, content marketing has a cumulative and compounding return. Each of the posts of a blog continues to attract traffic from SEO and social channels long after it has been published.