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Businesses Need Your Input, But Can’t Read Your Mind

Startup Professionals Musings

Even the best technology can’t read your mind, which is why a simple Google search often gives frustrating and irrelevant results, and online advertisers bombard you with opportunities of no interest. They believe that the benefits of sharing data are very much worth the price of providing access to their data. Norton, Ph.D.,

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Startups Need Your Data, But Consumers Are Still Wary

Startup Professionals Musings

Even the best technology can’t read your mind, which is why a simple Google search often gives frustrating and irrelevant results, and online advertisers bombard you with opportunities of no interest. They believe that the benefits of sharing data are very much worth the price of providing access to their data. Norton, Ph.D.,

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7 Winning Strategies For Smartphone App Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 9 million registered developers in 2014. We don’t hear about the remaining three million apps that are mostly free, and garnering only trivial revenue through advertising.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

billion by 2014. Social media users are over 60% more likely to check email at least four times a day than those who don’t use social media. Social media users are over 60% more likely to check email at least four times a day than those who don’t use social media.

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Should Entrepreneurs Grow Revenue Or User Count?

Startup Professionals Musings

Its only been in the last 10 years that social-media companies, such as Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars, while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users. The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit.

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Investors Love A Credible Entrepreneur Market Sizing

Startup Professionals Musings

If 10 percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. With social media and the new survey tools, it’s easy and fast to set up and run your own focus group or opinion survey.

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TechZulu Recaps: The Annual Startup Forecast

Tech Zulu Event

This year’s TZ #startupforecast (Jan 28, 2014) was no exception. In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. 2014 looks to be the year of emerging technologies (wearables, bitcoin, etc.)

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