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Peering Into The Mobile Games Future With Josh Hartwell of Mobile Deluxe

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really, that opportunity has only recently been realized fully with Apple in 2008, and later with Google. Speaking of Apple's iPhone and Google, it seems like you're one of the few mobile game firms for phones which has made the transition more or less smoothly into this new world of iOS and Android.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google.

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How YP Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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I was recruited for the role when we were still at AT&T Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. Where does YP fit in a world dominated by Google and Yelp? With Google, they are obviously the big dog, no matter who you are talking about. If you look at Yelp''s U.S.

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How YP.com Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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I was recruited for the role when we were still at ATT Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. Where does YP fit in a world dominated by Google and Yelp? With Google, they are obviously the big dog, no matter who you are talking about. The process was nearly flawless.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Founded in August 2008 in Palo Alto, CA, by Sam Christiansen and Keith Lee. Time will tell.

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How Roambi Is Making Mobile Work For The Enterprise, with Quinton Alsbury

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We founded the company in 2008, inspired by and around the first iPhone. We realized that what Apple had done, was introduce a completely new way of interacting with computing devices, using touch, a rich, animated UI, and the size of the screen. The use cases range from sales enablement to human resources, to executive reporting.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. . Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? Remember again that the three major steps to a sale are: Why buy anything?

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