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5 Startup Funding Models That Depend On The Consumer

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, entrepreneurs can and do gain from any and all of these approaches, either by achieving some funding, or at least testing their approach and the level of public interest in their startup idea. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co

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5 Crowdfunding Approaches To Tempt Every Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, entrepreneurs can and do gain from any and all of these approaches, either by achieving some funding, or at least testing their approach and the level of public interest in their startup idea. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

socalTECH

PhotoPoll is our first app to push live, and now we're working on our second app, AdTile, which is a mobile advertising solution for applications and mobile software. What we do, is I identify things and start defining features around ideas. Nils Forsblom: The original idea for Fruugo came when I was living here in the U.S.

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Will Crowdfunding Replace Angel And VC Investors?

Startup Professionals Musings

Beyond these models, the crowdfunding term is often used interchangeably or confused with crowdsourcing sites, such as IdeaBounty , to get your ideas off the shelf and give you the wisdom of the crowds, or IdeaScale to facilitate the outsourcing of application development in an open source call to others on the Internet.

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

Startup Professionals Musings

Ideas crowd sourcing. Sites like IdeaBounty get your ideas off the shelf, and give you the wisdom of the crowds. 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. Software crowd sourcing.

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Will the Real Crowd Funding Model Please Stand Up?

Startup Professionals Musings

Ideas crowd sourcing. Sites like GeniusCrowd get your ideas off the shelf, and give you the wisdom of the crowds. 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.

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Q Manning of Rocksauce Studios | Founder Interview

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What are your thoughts on what we can expect to see in the mobile application space at SXSW? The app space has been around long enough that we’re now starting to see less new ideas and more refinement and re-imaginings on old concepts. Take applications like Realmac’s Clear for the iPhone. Refinement.

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