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

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Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. That provides much better reporting to sponsors. What's the biggest lesson you've learned here so far as an entrepreneur? I was working with Madison Square Garden, the Knicks, the Rangers, and others. Laurence Sotsky: Great question.

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Interview with Bruce Nash, OpusData

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There is a portal into our database at OpusData, which allows you to log in, and run queries against the database, and produce reports which you can then save and re-run. You can also share those, and we have a widget server which allows you to republish reports you have developed. What's the business model behind OpusData?

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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The app is simple to use, and if you think about photo polling apps, they tend to be very data oriented, reporting how many females or males like things. We've noticed many international entrepreneurs locating here recently, like yourself. But we find that people between 15 and 25, our user base, are not interested in data sets.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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The most recent report to weigh in on the troubles of the industry was produced by the esteemed Kauffman Foundation. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. They are frustrated by the past decade of subpar returns for the sector.

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Above the Cloud with Dave Linthicum | Shifting Perspectives on SaaS and Enterprise IT

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He keynotes leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, enterprise application integration, and enterprise architecture. Alex is a proven web entrepreneur, having led and sold multiple successful startups. Alex Kazerani. Chairman & CEO at Edgecast. CEO at Bitium.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

Both Sides of the Table

Actually, the latter could be a reasonable strategy for super technical entrepreneurs who can sustain themselves without big financing needs (see: Atebits, owner of Tweetie). At Chirp I would say, “Look, there are times we’re going to build functionality that conflicts with what an application developer has built.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 4.0 – Wireless is the next big thing – hurry!

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► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. We developed software to enable developers to quickly and easily create and deploy wireless and voice business applications. Again, like most opportunistic entrepreneurs, part of our growth plan was to raise venture capital. Zondigo, Inc.

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