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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

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introNetworks is still going strong and has some of the biggest customers in the world, like NASA and McCann World Group. But, they were an HTML app on a LAMP stack. Mark Sylvester: We're only starting to study the data. You have been working on introNetworks, why you decided to create new the service?

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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

I know you’re not a tech guy and haven’t done anything other than an HTML course you once took, but if you’re inspirational and a leader you’ll find somebody to moonlight for free to get your prototype built. If you can’t get product released and validated then do user studies. That’s OK.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). Jonah was working on his masters thesis and he asked Nike to produce a customized shoe with the word “Sweatshop” on it.

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