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

socalTECH

We're now the biggest provider of mobile applications in college. Laurence Sotsky: The applications themselves do a number of different things. For example, we're the official mobile app of UCLA, even though behind the scenes is actually Hopscotch. Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop.

Mobile 162
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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

Both Sides of the Table

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. Optimization – If you’re a mobile application developer you may be monetizing your real estate perfectly now and you may not even think you need advertising.

Mobile 282
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Don’t Be Fooled By All The Hype For Crowd Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Example sites include StartSomeGood and the Facebook Cause page. A good example site, and one of the earliest in this category, is IndieGoGo. This is basically the Open Source concept, where sites like IdeaScale facilitate the outsourcing of application development to the Internet community in the form of an open call.

Funding 99
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Get It Delivered With Zipments | Los Angeles Begins Delivery

Tech Zulu Event

The company’s co-founders have a background in mobile application development and together built the first mobile app for one of the largest overnight delivery companies in the United States. Examples: lunch, cupcakes, prescription. Examples: home delivery of produce, coffee, baked goods.

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Will the Real Crowd Funding Model Please Stand Up?

Startup Professionals Musings

Example sites include StartSomeGood and the Facebook Cause page. A good example site, and one of the earliest in this category, is IndieGoGo. This is basically the Open Source concept, where sites like IdeaScale facilitate the outsourcing of application development to the Internet community in the form of an open call.

Funding 96
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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

This gives us a point of view about servers and modern web application development that isn't terribly common these days: each server in your cluster should be able to process a significant amount of user load. Vanilla node.js, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Apache Cordova for example. Easy stuff should be easy. At least not yet.

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Interview with Evan Rifkin, Burstly

socalTECH

Our main differentiation from what's out there now in the mobile area, is we allow developers to target their audience segment however they want, whether that is by time of day, by campaign, and we also turn control over to application developers, so they can transparently see and target their ads, to a greater degree.

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