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Should Your Company Develop a Mobile App?

crowdSPRING Blog

nearly doubling between 2011 and 2015. This knowledge will serve as the foundation for conversations about function and design moving forward, so start here. Those are all worthy goals, and all, in theory, within reach via mobile application development. Image Source: Pulatech.com. The average smartphone user downloads 8.8

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Being Too Early and VC Self Improvement

This is going to be BIG.

Actually, I wouldn't even really call them passes, because in a couple instances, they were just conversations--"Pre Deck" if you will. I asked a few developers I knew about it and the feedback was " Not ready yet, but has conceptual promise and it doesn't suck." Devrim Yasar just raised an additional $7.25 million for Koding.com.

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Should Your Company Develop a Mobile App?

crowdSPRING Blog

nearly doubling between 2011 and 2015. This knowledge will serve as the foundation for conversations about function and design moving forward, so start here. Those are all worthy goals, and all, in theory, within reach via mobile application development. Image Source: Pulatech.com. The average smartphone user downloads 8.8

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Should Your Company Develop a Mobile App?

crowdSPRING Blog

nearly doubling between 2011 and 2015. This knowledge will serve as the foundation for conversations about function and design moving forward, so start here. Those are all worthy goals, and all, in theory, within reach via mobile application development. Image Source: Pulatech.com. The average smartphone user downloads 8.8

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Five Questions with: Zach Sims, Codecademy CEO/Cofounder

Hunter Walker

Zach Sims: We started working together in January of 2011 after my cofounder Ryan and I saw the huge gap between education and employment. Ryan, meanwhile, had started teaching people to program through a club he started at Columbia, the Application Development Initiative. HW: How nervous were you on The Colbert Report ?

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Frameworks Round 2

TechEmpower

Last week, we posted the results of benchmarking several web application development and frameworks. We received comments, recommendations, advice, criticism, questions, and most importantly pull requests from dozens of readers and developers. The response was tremendous. New & Improved: Now with latency! Two Amazon EC2 m1.large

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4% There are too many ways to converse, each of us has a favored method, and no one wants to compromise. Privacy Policy - UPDATED 10/18/2011.