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[Event] [Singapore] Mobile Flea Market App Snapsell Wins Startup Weekend Singapore 2012

YoungUpstarts

After 54 hours of intense product development and business pitching at Startup Weekend Singapore over the weekend, Team Snapsell – which developed a mobile application which allows users to sell stuff on a mobile-first marketplace – beat over 40 other ideas to emerge victorious as grand winner of the event.

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Four Lessons Innovators Can Learn From the ACA Failure

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Sound application development principles are well known in the IT community. I’m sure many people building this application did know — sadly, political matters trumped a consumer perspective, good design principles, and creative problem solving. I feel their pain. Learn by doing. Consumers drive design.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

Billion View Comments How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development February 22, 2011 by Christina Warren View Comments email share email share The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.

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Should You Build a Mobile App or a Website for Your Startup?

Up and Running

Learn more about validating your business idea and product concept here. The MVP concept, popularized by Eric Rice of Lean Startup , assumes that before going all in and pouring significant sums into product development, you test the grounds with a “beta” version of your product. percent) and Asia (45.2

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22 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

Tesla has always put a huge emphasis on product development and technological advancement. because of how they're disrupting application development across all sectors. It cuts production time and costs in half without compromising functionality or style. Thanks to Christina Giaquinto, Modular Closets !

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Excerpt From "Do More Faster" by David Cohen and Brad Feld

ReadWriteStart

They have fewer employees, which means there are typically fewer people focused on things like marketing, sales, and product development. Oneforty rallied a community of thousands of Twitter application developers in just a few months. Startups have less credibility. They have fewer customers.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more Unlike political regimes, technological rulers are comprised of products rather than people. Marc released Mosaic in 1993.

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