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Facebook Partners With OpenTable To Up Restaurant Reviews

Tech Zulu Event

The new service will be available on the Facebook mobile Pages for more than 20,000 OpenTable restaurant customers across North America. OpenTable enables diners to see which restaurants have available tables, select a restaurant based on verified diner reviews, menus and other helpful information, and easily book a reservation.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

There were startups and a software industry but barely. I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. It was 1991.

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Appboy To Power Mag+’s Mobile Relationship Management For Its Digital Publishers

Tech Zulu Event

According to the firm, the partnership enables clients understand digital magazine readers and their key in-app behaviors, convert passive users into paid subscribers through targeted offers and upsells, promoting engaged readership via push notifications, in-app messages and email. Readers into customers.

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

socalTECH

We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising. How do clients license your software?

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Paranoid Companies Miss the Best New Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

Your goal is “ coopetition ” - to find a way to partner with your competitor in such a way that both parties can substantially benefit from the other's resources - without stealing customers or damaging anyone's credibility. As an example, a few years ago I worked for small software company selling an expensive enterprise workflow product.

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Your Toughest Competitor May be Your Best Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

Your goal is “ coopetition ” - to find a way to partner with your competitor in such a way that both parties can substantially benefit from the other's resources - without stealing customers or damaging anyone's credibility. As an example, a few years ago I worked for small software company selling an expensive enterprise workflow product.

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What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From The Grateful Dead

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Old School Software Distribution Is Doomed. On December 10th, 1993, a small group of software developers in Shreveport, Louisiana changed the software world. id Software’s first-person shooter game, entitled simply DOOM, could be downloaded free, allowing gamers to play the first nine levels.