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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

” Of course, it’s more complicated than just checking boxes on a question list. Platform Are there pre-existing technical platform decisions that must be considered? ” or “Are you developing for desktop, tablet, mobile, or all three?” The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

Both Sides of the Table

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). Many of us learned about substitute products in undergrad economics courses. Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class. If you can’t out-Amazon Amazon, then move on and do something else.

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Can You Build Your Business on Somebody Else’s Platform?

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I read the declarations by industry analysts on Twitter that this was “proof that you can’t build a business on somebody else’s platform” and perhaps DataSift should have known better. Simply put: We never intended to build a business on one company’s platform and despite market perceptions – we never did

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3 Sales Tips for Startups – Creating a Burning Platform

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Here they surround you with sales professionals, product people and, of course, lots of referenceable customers! In sales we do this by creating a “compelling event” or as some people call it “a burning platform” (in case the reference isn’t obvious, when you’re on a oil platform that’s burning you have no choice but to jump.

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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

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In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros.

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Former Snap employees are launching Forge Platform for Ethereum devs

TechCrunch LA

Now the three men are finally ready to take the covers off of the labor of love they’ve been working on and launch Forge Platform , a new toolkit for distributed applications. “We wanted to pick a platform where the majority of developers are,” says Lorenz of the decision to work with Ethereum. ” . .

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Aclima sucks in $24M to scale its air quality mapping platform

TechCrunch LA

Aclima , a San Francisco-based company which builds Internet-connected air quality sensors and runs a software platform to analyze the extracted intel, has closed a $24 million Series A to grow the business including by expanding its headcount and securing more fleet partnerships to build out the reach and depth of its pollution maps.

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