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Presidential Innovation Fellows, round two

Startup Lessons Learned

Entrepreneurs used these data to create weather newscasts, websites, mobile applications, insurance, and much more. and securely share their medical histories with caregivers, import their prescription histories into mobile reminder apps, and more. Similarly, the Green Button team at the U.S.

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Businesses That Are Making A Play: Ten Great Gamified Sites And Apps

YoungUpstarts

Foursquare is a free mobile app that enables you to “check in” at various places and share your experiences there. Nike+ is a fitness-oriented service that enables you to log your physical activity using a mobile app or other Nike gear. As you probably know if you’re an eBay user yourself, these are key game mechanics. billion by 2016!

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Which Color Converts The Best?

ConversionXL

In North America, green is typically associated with jealousy. Green supposedly means nature, freshness, growth and money. Green vs red button war. There’s a number of interesting A/B testing case studies where orange, in our case mostly red, button was up against competition from various other colors including green.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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ProfessorVC: Buyer's Remorse

Professor VC

I was previously a founder of Bizmetric in 2000 (your firm chose not to invest) and am now working on a startup using 3D architectural visualization for green building. The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. Social-Mobile-LOCAL: “Local” Will Be The Biggest of the Three.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. So along come companies like Slide, RockYou & Zynga who wanted to build apps across all the social networks but were green-lighted the hardest by Mark Zuckerberg. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile: FourSquare and Skout.

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How will you ride the next wave?

Berkonomics

The principal drivers of this re-imagination are the hyper-growth of the mobile Internet, consumer-controlled commerce, the rise of big data, and “globality.” And now we have made the largest cycle of all – the move to mobile Internet computing. Mobile commerce is up 552% in one year (measuring cyber-Mondays).

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