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Journey Platform To Build Data Gathering Mobile Apps | Co-founder Interview Conrad Hofmeyr

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The names “Embark” and “Journey” relate to how our products are used by companies who have distributed workforces that go out to all sorts of places “in the field” where they provide services. Learning simple JavaScript in order to build apps on Journey is however quite feasible. Any competition?

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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

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To understand that assertion, let’s observe how and when Google encroached on each layer of the technology value chain required to access any web service. Web browser – even a functional computer with an OS isn’t enough to access most Google services. Google’s vision is the most ambitious of its peers.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? Like anything in life, if you want a fair deal on the deferred fee and warrant percentage you need to talk to a few lawyers to make it competitive. But make it competitive. Here’s a hack for you.

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AT&T and American Airlines | The SXSW Party & Hackathon Recap

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The competition was fierce and the winner was…… Airping! Technologies used: MySQL Back End and APNS Push Services. is the travel booking service that thinks like you, not like the hotelier. Technologies used: HTML5, python, django, jQuery Mobile, javascript, mysqldb. Up for grabs for first place at this hack was $10k.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. eCommerce is an enormously competitive search term. It really started simply enough.

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