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Interview With Startup Boost, Matt Stodder and Blake Caldwell

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Matt Stodder: The most important thing is to understand their customers, and who they are going after. They really have to have an understanding of why their product exists, why their project exists, who the market is for their product. They fail to understand what the market is, what their differentiation is to their customers.

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

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If you're an NCAA fan, and you've loaded the app for your favorite team, there's a high likelyhood that the app is actually the product of El Segundo-based Hopscotch (www.gohopscotch.com). Depending on who you are, and where you are, we can deliver different advertising. We split that advertising revenue with our partners.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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If your last company was Apple, Blackberry, AdMob or JAMDAT and you have some experience in the sector then I know that your product will have your experiences baked into it. Traffic.com sold 10-second in-content advertising spots to local TV broadcasters. version of their product was. Are you launching a mobile application?

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. It offers Internet radio targeted advertising and is growing really well. uh, hello!

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. they have purchasing intent ).*. Here’s why.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards.

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The Customer May Not Always Be Right, But You Had Better Listen Just The Same

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Both companies were spending big bucks to advertise yet the offer left me cold and I must not be alone in this as both companies have slumping sales. These two ads showed how disconnected from their customers these once industry leaders have become. In fact, Customer Experience (CX) turns the product development chart upside down.