You can’t swing a cat in Silicon Valley without hitting dozens of startups boasting about how many app downloads or registered users they have, but what does this actually mean? VC Fred Wilson has published a useful blog post explaining a ‘law of web/mobile physics’ which he says helps to get to the real numbers.

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