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First (and not last) time at iOSDevCamp 2011

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

The hackathon follows a similar format of a Startup Weekend, Friday night – networking, idea pitches, some teams form, Saturday – teams done forming, hack hack hack, and Sunday - hack, submit, present your hack. The team lead did some work already on the backend so I just had to call an API and parse the JSON file.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Employees: 20.

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FootTraffic Offers an API for Location-Based Offers

VC Cafe

Israeli startup FootTraffic offers advertisers a performance marketing platform for location-based offers. In other words, a way to reach a bunch of location based apps at scale via API and paying only for those that convert. billion in 2011. That’s the problem that Israeli startup FootTraffic wants to solve.

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Open Innovation in DC

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, you probably didn't notice that on April 27, 2011, the President issued Executive Order 13571, with the sonorous title "Streamlining Service Delivery and Improving Customer Service." But I talked to a number of people in agencies across the executive branch that are actually using a lean startup approach. But some have.

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Twitter Link Roundup #62 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 5 Design Trends That Small Businesses Can Use in 2011 – [link]. Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors – [link]. Need a logo? – [link].

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs what fledging tech startups should be looking for in a CTO hire to ensure founders get the right person for the job. Experience with Startups! Don’t hire someone who has never worked with a startup before, because the environment is totally different.

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Why Call Tracking Metrics Matter To Your Marketing Efforts

Duct Tape Marketing

Husband and wife co-founders, Todd and Laure Fisher founded CallTrackingMetrics in 2011 in their basement and together have grown it into an Inc. John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the female startup club, hosted by Doone Roison, and brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network.

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