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Developer Focus: Dominic St Pierre, Focus Centric

YoungUpstarts

Bunker is a project management and online billing service built by small web application developer Focus Centric that is positioned for use by freelancers and small businesses. The developer – who created his first product, a CMS and eCommerce web app back in 2008 – says that development on his product will never be done.

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What’s FinTech, And What Does It Mean For Your Business?

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It offered independence from financial establishments, which in the wake of 2008 were universally considered unreliable, and mere convenience. If you’re passionate about a business idea, develop a product’s prototype; come up with a catchy description for it, explain clearly its benefits and launch a Kickstarter campaign.

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Top 14 Sites to Promote Your Startup

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They have a huge following of app and software developers, so you’ll surely get some great exposure. Since its founding in 2008, the site has been committed to inspiring, educating, and featuring the doers of the world. Why it’s great: Springwise is a great website to promote your app or software.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Founded in August 2008 in Palo Alto, CA, by Sam Christiansen and Keith Lee.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

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Next, Douglas Villalobos from Costa Rica pitched GeoInvenio, a mobile application development platform. Douglas has identified about 50 software companies in Costa Rica that may be willing to develop apps on top of the GeoInvenio platform. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. GeoInvenio.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

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Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. He wants to provide both a branded app store and white-labeled stores for developers to put on their respective sites. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. There is one problem with the strategy, though.

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

Buddy Media was an amazing exit, but I never really thought of it like “enterprise software” I thought about it more like an agency that had developed off the shelf social tools around its service solutions. 6/15/2008Application network of its own apps plus agency business plus ad network.

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