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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. Each of these Web and mobile apps has evolved over months and some over years. 4) WhatsApp. 8) Angry Birds. All the grains of salt.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003.

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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]. The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile: FourSquare and Skout. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google].

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. And if you’re doing Windows Mobile 7 apps (which the stats suggest you aren’t), it’s your only choice. 65% versus about Windows mobile (dot.net?) net implementation.

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Cracking The Code: Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends

Cracking the Code

The top 10 trends this year were around the emergence of mobile platforms (thanks Apple for the iPhone!), Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. the rise of CleanTech, and the next wave of web applications and services, with a hint to the potential of the baby boomers. Software 2.0: How the use of internet is transform.