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Crowdfunder Hosts 1st Crowdsourced Startup Contest | Crowdstart LA

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The panel of experts not only judged the competition but also gave the companies feedback after their pitch. The site caters to people that pay out-of-pocket for their healthcare needs. Divshot is a tool for web application developers. Doctors Coupons is exactly what it sounds like.

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Interview with Hamilton Chan, PaperLinks

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I know that because we were in the print industry, it was important to diversify and to be competitive in the digital age. As part of that, we launched a web site to allow people to order printing online, and we also saw the ability to use QR codes to augment that printing. So, 10 years ago and left to run Charlie Chan Printing.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. SimpleGeo – Provider of simple, turnkey location based services to content publishers and online service providers looking to location-enable their applications or services. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). People got their knickers in a twist when they saw people like Michael Arrington and Robert Scoble having advertisers and endorsing brands on their sites. If we continue our success we will have strong competition.

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Q Manning of Rocksauce Studios | Founder Interview

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So in October 2010, I evaluated the competitive landscape and realized that there weren’t any app companies out there focused on what I thought mattered the most: the brand, the look, and the experience a client would have with an app. What are your thoughts on the direction from a design perspective of application development for 2012?

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