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13 Ecosystem Builders That Are Boosting Startup Growth

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In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. BlackTech Week was created by the leadership team from Code Fever to accelerate and support the innovation of black communities through training, networks and funding. “

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Decoding the Secret of iPhone Game Popularity, With William Volk, Playscreen

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It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. Crickler was originally licensed way back in 2004, because we believed in the title, but the platforms at the time couldn't handle it.

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Meet the Investors & Tech Leaders Judging at Startup Night SXSW 2018

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Lisha works tirelessly to build a platform of advocacy around issues such as tech inclusion, diversity, and education. Felicia is the cofounder of Black Tech Week, Code Fever, Tribe Cowork and Urban Innovation. Most recently she was a Senior Fellow at Learn Capital, where she focused on product development and investment due diligence.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

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The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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Interview with Scott Lahman, GOGII

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Lahman is also one of the co-founders of JAMDAT Mobile, the immensely successful developer of mobile games, which had an IPO in 2004, and eventually became part of Electronic Arts in 2006. So, we really built some innovation into our platform, to make it ubiquitous in the mobile space. What's the story behind GOGII?

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). Consumer approach to software for business users. My blog was wiped out. Tempus Fugit.

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StartupDemo Was a Huge Success!

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Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. TCA is a not-for-profit organization. We don’t fry it (unhealthy).