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Odds Are, Your Startup Probably Isn't a Platform ? AGILEVC

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It encompasses not just a technical infrastructure but also a user experience framework, usually some form of a selling channel, and a defined large-scale developer ecosystem. A software platform is truly a foundation on which entire businesses can be built. Facebook is a platform and companies like Zynga have been built upon it.

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Our Investment in Cloze ? AGILEVC

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His co-founder/CMO Alex Cote has run customer acquisition programs that have attracted millions of users via a range of channels. Though he’s been both a CTO and a VP Product and managed large teams before, he built all of Cloze’s initial product himself from the back end through to the presentation layer.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

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Budget the time leading up to the expo appropriately to guarantee enough bandwidth to send out email campaigns, put a link on your company website and even post on your organization’s social networking channels to make sure that all your customers, past, present and LV Outlet future know exactly where you are going to be.