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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. ” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups.

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ntro Dangles Food Truck For A Day For Download

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How do you get local users to download and try out your new social networking app? Founder Resnick co-founded Pandemic, which ultimately was sold to Electronic Arts for $860M. In the case of recently launched Ntro , you offer to let them have their own food truck for a day in a contest. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Josh Resnick, ntro

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Josh was formerly the President of Pandemic Studios, and helped co-found the company, merge it with Bioware, and eventually sell the combined firm to Electronic Arts for $860M. I remember one day, looking up, and everyone was on their phone. When did you decide to start working on this as a company?

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Interview with Neville Spiteri, TheBlu

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Neville Spiteri: We are a digital media startup, building a next generation studio that it is focusing on creating entertainment and web media, that scales to tens of hundreds of thousands of people, and potentially millions around the world. How did you decide to start all of this? Neville Spiteri: That' a great question.

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Interview with Scott Lahman, GOGII

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Lahman is also one of the co-founders of JAMDAT Mobile, the immensely successful developer of mobile games, which had an IPO in 2004, and eventually became part of Electronic Arts in 2006. We spoke with Scott about GOGII and textPlus, the shifting mobile market, and also what lessons he's applied to his new startup.

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