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Estimating App Development: What Small Businesses Need To Know?

YoungUpstarts

Some clients approach companies only with an idea, and the others already have their design created. App cost can fall by 30% if your design is ready. The second issue is a social network API. Budget depends not only on app’s functions but also on the following factors: Completeness. Platforms (Operating Systems).

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Can App.net Make It? On Dalton Caldwell’s Talk At SXSW.

YoungUpstarts

The join.app.net campaign of the summer was designed to get developers excited about the platform and to get them to build applications for it. This was designed to avoid the public’s fixation and disappointment of the next-big-thing syndrome, “Where you get five million users and then they think it sucks,” he said.

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Build, Buy Or Build To Buy

YoungUpstarts

Second, and equally as important, cloud services platforms are increasing offered with web service APIs that allow the client, vendor or even a third-party integrator to easily customize the solution to meet the exact needs of the firm, without requiring proprietary knowledge of the vendor.

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The 90-Day CMO and Cross-Channel Acquisition Strategies That Scale

Duct Tape Marketing

With over a decade of experience in his toolkit, he specializes in helping clients build out cross-channel acquisition systems using a mix of owned, earned and paid tactics. 07:17] What is you cross-channel acquisition strategy? [11:13] Do you have kind of a a thought on, you know, the cross channel acquisition?

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If you build it, they won't come, unless.

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Does Apple win the hearts (yes, hearts ) of millions because of their obsession with design or because of their development APIs? Does 37signals have over three million users because their software is "better" than the competition, or is it because they motivate designers and entrepreneurs through their writing and philosophy?

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Enterprise SEO: Don’t Outsmart—Out Execute

ConversionXL

You have strategy, content, design, and dev—that’s at least four people. If you’re designing and developing “custom” pages all the time, you’re doing it wrong. With one creative design and one CMS template in WordPress, the SEO team published 29 purchase-intent pages that have created $10M in sales pipeline.

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Where are the opportunities for machine learning startups? [guest post]

VC Cafe

Large corporations have access to huge datasets and can acquire more (pace IBM’s recent acquisition of The Weather Channel data assets for $1.5bn ). But these processors were designed for graphics. The next step-change for efficient learning and inference will come from processors designed specifically for machine learning.