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20 Best Free and Paid Tools for Startups in 2023

Tech.Co

Business tools — from customer relationship management ( CRM ) platforms to accounting software — help to save startups time and money by automating key processes and maximizing efficiency. Lenido Startup tool: Accounting software Price: Free Accounting software doesn't need to come at a premium. While Hide.me While Hide.me

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Do you have legal (Founder Agreement, IP, etc.) Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? Is it limited to login and Like buttons, or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Accounting Beyond reviewing transactions, what accounting support do you need?

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Qualcomm Buys iSkoot

socalTECH

iSkoot Technologies includes substantially all of the assets of San Francisco-based iSkoot, a developer of social networking and Skype-compatible voice-over-IP software for mobile phones. Tags: qualcomm iskoot merger acquisition mobile software skype social networking. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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Interview with Andrew Schydlowsky, TrackStreet: Brand Protection Using AI

socalTECH

Andrew spoke to us about TrackStreet's brand protection software and artificial intelligence efforts. Although they'll still rely on their partner network, they will be integrated in a different way. We have some IP we are waiting on to put a wedge in the market, and we have quite a bit of backlog in our product.

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De-risk Your Startup By Doing It Again: The Joy Of Getting The Band Back Together

InfoChachkie

The team is applying its ad network and ad serving insights to the emerging world of mobile advertising. IP Risk – The closer the Serial Team’s new adVenture is to their prior successes, the greater the risk that they may be accused of infringing on their former company’s intellectual property (IP).

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Fast early growth in a market is often eroded when competition gets fierce and prices are forced down due to competition. Let’s consider the following two software companies, both of which have 66% gross margins.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

In rare cases when a non-bot tries to participate in Twitter, the uber-bot [type T] prevents the whole bot network from negative impacts by serving a 503 error to the homunculus’ browser. ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. It can get worse when a URI gets retweeted often.