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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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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. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers.

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22 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

Mindbody is a shining example of a business that used innovation and quick thinking to turn negative circumstances into an incredible new revenue stream. because of how they're disrupting application development across all sectors. . #10- Mindbody. Photo Credit: Matthew Scarfo. It’s a great brand! 20- Bubble.io.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Many people have speculated a variety of revenue sources such as charging 3rd parties for their data, charging power users for their accounts, charging “verified users&# for their certified accounts, etc. A healthy eco-system of application developers is required for any software or Internet company to be massively successful.

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APPNATION SF 2011 was fun

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

On the second day of APPNATION SF, I took it more easy and attended 3 sessions – 1) Intel AppUp Application Development Lab, 2) Monetization Strategies, and 3) Free, Freemium, or Paid? you might have 1000 play your game, 50 of them pay, and 1 of them give you half your revenue. Congratulations to them.

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APPNATION SF 2011 was fun

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

On the second day of APPNATION SF, I took it more easy and attended 3 sessions – 1) Intel AppUp Application Development Lab, 2) Monetization Strategies, and 3) Free, Freemium, or Paid? You might have 1000 play your game, 50 of them pay, and 1 of them give you half your revenue. Congratulations to them.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Both Sides of the Table

The topic is “The Future of Mobile Applications&# and I pronounce, “App is Crap.&# It is a step backward for our industry. It is a channel disguised in business clothing. And being gateways to the customer they naturally extracted their pound of flesh from mobile application developers. Or would it?

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New Web Order - Finding a Technical Co-Founder

nikcub.appspot.com

Freenode is the network most popular with developers today, especially with open source projects (channels such as #python, #rubyonrails, ##php etc. Andrew Warner of Mixergy conducted an excellent interview yesterday with an iPhone application development firm who have developed almost a dozen iPhone apps using online contract workers.