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Freeletics raises $45M for its AI-powered mobile fitness coach

TechCrunch LA

Freeletics , headquartered in Munich, Germany, is today announcing its first round of private capital after bootstrapping since 2013. As you might expect from the name, Freeletics operates its mobile fitness coaching app on a freemium model, with tiered pricing beginning at $11.99 for one month or $74.99 for a year-long membership.

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7 Lessons For Mobile App Developers To Beat The Odds

Startup Professionals Musings

You provide the free app in the App Store that gives subscribers mobile access to your service. This is a tough one to accomplish, but it has paid off handsomely for the first to win in other categories, such as Amazon Kindle and Netflix. Position yourself to capitalize on the next frontier. Make your app support all platforms.

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Why Meg Whitman is Betting on Quibi as“The Da Vinci Code of Content”

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Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) We would argue that our movies are world-class movies, just designed entirely for mobile.”

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7 Keys To A Winning Business As A Phone App Developer

Startup Professionals Musings

You provide the free app in the App Store that gives subscribers mobile access to your service. This is a tough one to accomplish, but it has paid off handsomely for the first to win in other categories, such as Amazon Kindle and Netflix. Position yourself to capitalize on the next frontier. Make your app support all platforms.

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Interview with Joe Bayen, Grow Credit

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The company's venture backers include Mucker Capital and Commerce Capital, as well as angel investor Minal Hasan, of K2 Global Ventures. Joe Bayen: Grow Credit is the first platform to allow consumers to establish their credit, for free, using their subscription payments for services such as Netflix, HBO, or whatnot.

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PortalOne raises $60M as it levels up to launch its hybrid, immersive gaming platform later this year

TechCrunch LA

PortalOne , which is building an immersive gaming platform that describes itself as hybrid in more ways than one — it mixes games with a game show/talk show format, and it’s designed to work across various devices from mobile through to consoles and VR headsets — has picked up $60 million.

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More investors are betting on virtual influencers like Lil Miquela

TechCrunch LA

Last year the company scored at least $6 million from investors, including Sequoia Capital , BoxGroup and other, undisclosed, investors. YouTube didn’t kill television, it just became Netflix… T hings can move in two different directions at the same time. “We saw the impact that the rise of mobile was having on linear.