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Estimating App Development: What Small Businesses Need To Know?

YoungUpstarts

Software development companies face lots of different cases, but generally all of them fall into two main categories: – Client has been nursing the idea of his/her mobile app for a long time but it takes months or even years to bring it to the stage of development estimation. The second issue is a social network API.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web.

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Speech recognition anyone? AT&T; opens up Watson API

gigaom.com

AT&T opens up Watson API. Ma Bell has taken the locks off of its Watson speech application programming interfaces (APIs), allowing any developer to access them. For the remainder of 2012, AT&T will give free and unlimited access to the Watson APIs to any developer paying AT&T’s $99 annual registration dues.

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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. Second, he ended up having to pull the API that developers were developing apps on. Caldwell compared running an ad supported business to a famous pastime, fishing.

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6 Awesome Tools To Make Your Startup Smarter In 2020

YoungUpstarts

It lets you clearly identify which activities are the main contributors to your acquisition goals. It is a customizable, widget-driven, API-first community platform that enables users to discuss and connect under brand names. It is a task organizer tool that helps you sort your team’s development efforts efficiently.

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Build, Buy Or Build To Buy

YoungUpstarts

We weren’t winning or losing business to other developers, rather it generally came down to three options: Buy – the client saw the value in our platform and they subscribed to our cloud. The decision on whether to purchase or develop the innovative applications that your firm needs to compete has changed dramatically with cloud solutions.

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Pitching a Data Strategy? Here’s How to Ensure the C-Suite Says “Yes.”

ConversionXL

It’s tempting to develop a strategy that works just for your department. we need an API to join website data with Intercom into a dashboard”) and instead state the need (e.g. “we Now, we’re wrapping up a data lake that stores data across all customer touchpoints on most channels, from acquisition to re-engagement.