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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

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He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. Although both parents are educators, his father a professor and his mother the Commissioner of Education in Connecticut, they did not teach him business. What is your mobile strategy?

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

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Next, Douglas Villalobos from Costa Rica pitched GeoInvenio, a mobile application development platform. In addition, I asked him to do a competitive analysis on the pricing models of the various mobile app platforms and come back to me with both sets of market data, namely, customer research and competitive analysis. GeoInvenio.

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Design Your Company Culture Like The World’s Largest Hedge Fund

David Teten

One of ff Venture Capital ’s recent portfolio companies, Memo , has made bridging this gap easy (and in fact, inevitable) by releasing a mobile app allowing employees to secretly verify their employer and anonymously participate in private company message boards with their coworkers. Photo credit: Prayitno . Cross-posted in Forbes.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

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Nobody was leveraging digital, e-commerce or mobile. Our response has been very favorable and we’ve expanded into Ohio and Connecticut in addition to launching a related site for comparison shopping for residential natural gas. Buyers were using pen, paper and fax machines to place orders. Thanks to Olivia Skuza, NuORDER !

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

Principal Investigator: Yu Lei University of Connecticut. Mobidemics : Using Mobile Gaming for Healthcare. Principal Investigator: Michael Shur Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Standoff detection of explosives using novel signal-amplifying nanocomposite and hand-held UV light. MEMS-based drug infusion pumps.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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which makes a mobile app that rewards shoppers for creating a personal shopping mall and following their favorite stores. Connecticut. Connecticut. David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. The 20-year venture capitalist is an "angel" investor in Mr. Dreymanns new start-up, Mowingo Inc., California.

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10 Best Apps For Small Business Owners

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There is an abundance of productivity and business mobile apps that can help you run your business remotely. Here are ten terrific mobile apps that you should consider using. Until recently, taking care of payroll, benefits, and other HR-related tasks from a mobile phone was a challenge.