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

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Laurence Sotsky: I've been working in the software-as-a-service space for some time, in medium-sized, venture capital backed companies. Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. For them to use us, it's a fraction of that to subscribe to our service. How did you get into this?

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Interview With Startup Boost, Matt Stodder and Blake Caldwell

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We occupy the space in ecosystem to service companies who are getting ready for seed or have just started to go out for seed funding. They fail to understand what the market is, what their differentiation is to their customers. Blake Caldwell: We believe heavily in customer in customer development.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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He wanted to launch his next venture in financial services because it was a bigger industry. But I pointed out that he would be up against competitors that had spend years building relationships with the big financial services companies (as well as channel partners) and he was going to have to start from scratch. He’s a star.

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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. Evangelism marketing is an advanced form of word of mouth marketing (WOMM), now largely replaced by Facebook and Twitter.

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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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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. Evangelism marketing is an advanced form of word of mouth marketing (WOMM), now largely replaced by Facebook and Twitter.

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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. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. It offers Internet radio targeted advertising and is growing really well. But I made it for a reason.