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This is a great analysis although the Silicon Valley jargon is heavy at times. Even as a fairly-regular HN reader, I didn't recognize some of these, like IAC a
by pimlottc 11y ago
This is a great analysis although the Silicon Valley jargon is heavy at times. Even as a fairly-regular HN reader, I didn't recognize some of these, like IAC and ARPU, and they aren't defined or linked in the piece.
- hluska 11y agoARPU is "average revenue per user", but I can't for the life of me figure out IAC. Maybe someone else can help???
- cldellow 11y agoIAC is a company who owns a lot of dating sites. Source: the article.
- hluska 11y agoThanks so much! I have absolutely no idea how I missed that...:)
- nemild 11y agoIAC is a company: http://iac.com/ http://iac.com/
- smokinn 11y agoIAC Interactive which is the parent company of most large online US dating sites (among other online properties). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAC_%28company%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAC_%28company%29
- KingMob 11y agoPretty sure IAC is the massive holding company (iac.com) that owns multiple dating sites, and not a business acronym. Weirdly, a quick perusal of their site doesn't indicate what it stands for.
- Elepsis 11y agoIAC has basically stopped treating its name as an acronym and now just calls itself IAC, but it originally stood for InterActiveCorp.
- clarky07 11y agoIAC is the name of a company. ARPU = Average Revenue Per User
- andrew_null 11y agogoogle is your friend.