Promising eight American startups: Snapchat WhatsApp Lyft

Tiger Olfactory note: Many entrepreneurial stars such as a flash in the pan, Meteor blink, but also some can grow up strong. Find those who really have the potential to become the next big business start-up companies, test the entrepreneurial media and investors. Which companies can be among the 1 billion-dollar club, the various statements and rankings have not stopped. Here's an article from the New York Times tech reporter Janna Wassem Jenna Wortham, who listed eight tech startups that might be promising in the future. Some look familiar, some in the domestic seems to have no similar. For reference only. By Tencent Technology translation:

1.Snapchat

This mobile app allows users to send "self-destruct" text messages and photos to friends and family. Users can preset a time period before they are sent, and text messages and photos will self-destruct after the time period expires. Snapchat says the total number of messages sent through the application today has reached 200 million, a figure that means the app already has a huge user population.

In June this year, Snapchat raised 60 million of billions of dollars through a financing round, with a valuation of $800 million trillion. According to a recent report by Mobile analytics company Onavo Insights, iphone users who use Snapchat apps each month account for nearly 20% of total user numbers, meaning the app has become one of the most popular apps on Apple's mobile operating system.

2.WhatsApp

WhatsApp is a communications application that aims to replace the old-fashioned SMS (SMS service). The cost of this application is only 1 dollars, and there is no advertising. WhatsApp was developed by two former Yahoo engineers in 2009 and currently has a high ranking in every app store. At the beginning of June this year, WhatsApp said the total number of messages sent by its users had reached 27 billion a day.

3.Oculus VR

Virtual reality game glasses Oculus Rift looks like a large ski goggles (that is, the title map), so that the wearer immersed in virtual reality video games can not extricate themselves. Oculus Rift began as a project on the platform Kickstarter, which raised 250,000 of billions of dollars and eventually raised more than 2 million dollars in total. In June this year, Oculus Rift also raised 16 million of billions of dollars from venture capitalists such as spark capital through a funding round.

4.Wanelo

Online shopping has taken the place of shopping malls long ago, but unless people know exactly what they want to buy, a plethora of online shopping sites can be confusing. Wanelo offers a collection of fashionable products on its Web site that are carefully selected from online shopping sites across the Internet. Founded in 2010, Wanelo is popular among young women, with a total of more than 10 million subscribers, recently completing a round of $11 million trillion in financing, with a company valued at $100 million trillion.

5.Lyft

The user can make a hitch request through the Lyft application, while another Lyft user will arrive soon and send it to their destination. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, Lyft recently completed a financing round, led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowit, which raised $60 million trillion in capital. While Lyft is currently serving only in several cities, the company says it plans to extend its business to the entire US market by the end of 2014.

6.MYO

Myo is working to develop wrist-band devices that allow users to surf the web, play games and interact with other users, and the company says it plans to launch the product for consumers early in the 2014. Myo, founded by three engineers, is now small, but has raised nearly 15 million dollars from some of the best-known venture capitalists, with more than 30,000 of the pre-order orders for its wrist-belt equipment.

7.Braintree

The online and mobile business market is already overcrowded, and many startups want to be the next PayPal, but Braintree is quietly attracting a large number of well-known customers, such as Finnish game developers Rovio, Uber, online booking website OpenTable, fab, Flash site, The company's credibility has been greatly enhanced by the Airbnb of the holiday home rental website, the "errands" platform TaskRabbit and private cloud company Heroku.

Braintree was founded in 2007, headquartered in Chicago, the current annual processing of merchandise turnover has reached 10 billion U.S. dollars, of which only a small part of the mobile platform, which is still a big gap compared to PayPal, The latter's 2013-year mobile-transaction payments are expected to reach $20 billion trillion.

8.King

King was founded in 2003, is a game development company, at the end of 2012, launched the "Candy Smash Legend" (Candy Crush) is by far the company's most popular game, its total number of players have reached 45 million, and most users from the mobile platform. According to the company, users are now playing the game more than 600 million times a day through mobile devices.