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

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The platform approach we took allows teams and companies and venues to access the best functionality, at a subcription price, rather than a custom development price. That provides much better reporting to sponsors. What's the biggest lesson you've learned here so far as an entrepreneur? Laurence Sotsky: Great question.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

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He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. One of the big questions, probably the biggest questions that I get from reporters, is 'what trends do you see? They are: Fred Wilson: Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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The 11 Harsh Realities Of Being An Entrepreneur - OnStartups , November 1, 2010 There's always talk about the end game in the form of an acquisition, funding announcement, or eventual flame out. love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world. This doesn’t make sense.

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Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail

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The problem is that when you brand something that will be interpreting differently by people who weren’t part of the zeitgeist when the memo went out about what “fail fast&# meant then we educate the next generation of entrepreneurs to do things the wrong way. How do I know this? It’s quick and easy. This is wrong.

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