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5 Startup Funding Models That Depend On The Consumer

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Product pre-order model. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co

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Burstly Opens Up Mobile Ad Service

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Los Angeles-based Burstly , the mobile advertising tools firm run by Evan Rifkin, said this week that it has opened up a new way for mobile application developers to sell their own advertising space. Newtoy recently revealed it has had over 10 million downloads of its game.

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5 Crowdfunding Approaches To Tempt Every Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Product pre-order model. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co

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

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If you're an NCAA fan, and you've loaded the app for your favorite team, there's a high likelyhood that the app is actually the product of El Segundo-based Hopscotch (www.gohopscotch.com). Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. That really helped us to get to a dominant position in college.

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Will Crowdfunding Replace Angel And VC Investors?

Startup Professionals Musings

Product pre-order model. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return. A much-touted success was the Pebble Watch on Kickstarter , with orders exceeding $10 million.

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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We build products and services tied to mobile carriers. Those technologies allow us to scale and offer a superior product for customers. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. That was a big transition, at first, to try to create new products and services that are enjoyed by people.

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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Nils Forsblom: TenFarms is a mobile app developer. We build mobile products, not just mobile applications, but products around them. PhotoPoll is our first app to push live, and now we're working on our second app, AdTile, which is a mobile advertising solution for applications and mobile software.

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