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Smartphone Location Tracking Apps Next Wave Is B2B

Startup Professionals Musings

If your B2B contacts are frequenting other non-competitive local businesses, LBS data could point you to more lucrative business partnerships. Broadcast sponsorships and advertising. If your B2B contacts check-in regularly at certain types of locations (entertainment venues, stores, etc.) See who checks into your competition.

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Location-Based Services in B2B Offer Better Return

Startup Professionals Musings

If your B2B contacts are frequenting other non-competitive local businesses, LBS data could point you to more lucrative business partnerships. Sponsorships and advertising. If your B2B contacts check-in regularly at certain types of locations (entertainment venues, stores, etc.) See who checks into your competition.

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Location-Based Services are a Bonanza for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

If your B2B contacts are frequenting other non-competitive local businesses, LBS data could point you to more lucrative business partnerships. Sponsorships and advertising. If your B2B contacts check-in regularly at certain types of locations (entertainment venues, stores, etc.) See who checks into your competition.

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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As you know, today, video is one of the primary means of communications from a personal, corporate, and entertainment level. He saw that the industry was being disrupted globally, and actually started with the idea of building a new company that could be scalable, and flexible, and offer delivery of that content at competitive pricing.

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Smart Startups Learn How To Create And Manage Hype

Startup Professionals Musings

According to Urban Dictionary , hype is “a clever marketing strategy where a product is advertised as the thing everyone must have, to the point where people begin to feel they need to consume it.” Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/14/2015. Where is your solution in the hype cycle?

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Interview with Clark Landry, Maple Media

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Los Angeles-based Maple Media (maplemedia.io) recently announced a big, $30M funding from Shamrock Capital, to assemble a collection of mobile applications in the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. After I sold my last company, Shift, in May of 2015, I took some time off to look for the next thing to do.

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

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billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). Again he looked to the media industry history and pointed out that before Ted Turner founded CNN he had an entertainment channel. I asked Jonah about his started position in photos, lists, GIFs and text and where he thought video fit in.

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