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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

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Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. Combining that with my previous experience, which was in the platform and SaaS market, and sports, was really a home run. Why are these colleges using you, rather than investing in their own custom applications?

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

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App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects. In the same year Salesforce.com launched a SaaS CRM platform to compete with Siebel. Or would it?

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. Primarily because you can launch applications where you focus on a acquiring a user base with a compelling product while not having to worry about how to build your services into a map view or having to build in services that find local businesses, etc.