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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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Forsblom is now in Los Angeles and San Diego, and reinventing himself with a mobile application company called TenFarms (www.tenfarms.com). Nils Forsblom: TenFarms is a mobile app developer. We build mobile products, not just mobile applications, but products around them. It was the guy we'd outsourced as CEO.

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When Should You Allow Exclusivity in Deals?

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Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006. How to Craft Exclusivity Agreements.

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9 Technology Innovations Made In The USA

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At the same time, it’s a smart manufacturing decision, as American-made quality usually stands head and shoulders above outsourced competition. Moto-X by Motorola: Motorola has been a mainstay in the mobile device market since the days of early flip phones. Users can always see who’s at their door no matter where they are.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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We spoke about employment contracts for entrepreneurs – We talked about “change of control&# provisions in your contract and how to negotiate them. AdReady – Develops software tools and management platform that assists content publishers and ad agencies with the creation of display ads. Primarily targets SMBs.

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Vizio and the Story of the Sleeping Giant

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Vizio’s vision was to develop high quality, affordable HDTV’s for a mass market. Later in 2002, Vizio become profitable resulting from a consulting contract with Gateway Computers and the company never looked back. The company brought on retailers Circuit City, Sears and Kmart in 2006 followed by mega retailer Walmart in 2007.

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Meet the Investors & Tech Leaders Judging at Startup Night SXSW 2018

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Lisha served a lengthy tenure fulfilling multiple roles at Wells Fargo, most recently as VP of Consumer Financial Services, where she led the mobile payments strategy and implementation for the credit card business. The program has been so successful that the startups have leveraged $48M in private capital to further their development.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

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I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. This was 2006 and we were now working on our second company. Back then it seemed foreign. They recorded it.