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

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You can use your phone to really guide yourself through game day or through a live event. Laurence Sotsky: I've been working in the software-as-a-service space for some time, in medium-sized, venture capital backed companies. Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. How did you get into this?

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Legendary customer support. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. The Holy Grail of. The leading provider of. Innovative. Disruptive. We get it! I Be specific.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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So when he saw the browser it instantly dawned on him that this would be the greatest customer development tool ever. He thought, “This way any product you launch you can talk instantly with and get feedback from customers.&# He had the idea that people would want city guides to tell them where to eat and what to do.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

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and Flipboard Rock - How to Change the World , August 24, 2010 In the last few weeks two companies have released services that enable you to take tweets and turn them into a newspaper or magazine format: Paper.li He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Know Your Objective.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - First Principles.

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Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail

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I’m trying to enter the debate with what I found to be a very destruction guiding principle that young people have started to believe. Paying customers. My business has a bunch of them, and a lot more users who really depend on our service. People gave you money to use your service. They’re relying on us.

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