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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

The conversations are interesting and varied because they’re about new, exciting, different things. The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation. Email / SMS Does your application send out transactional emails or SMS messages? After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about.

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Digital Transformation And The Evolution of Apps – What’s The Link?

YoungUpstarts

Apps popularly started out as a means for communication (call, SMS), which then evolved to a platform for content consumption in the early stages of data (news, MMS and YouTube), and finally to what we now define as demand services (food delivery, transport and e-commerce).

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Jonas Weigert on A/B Testing Beyond the Landing Page (Q&A)

ConversionXL

As conversion optimization continues to mature and become adopted by more organizations, it’s always interesting to see how companies are approaching growth and optimization. We also put a lot of effort into testing product communication (emails, SMS, and push notifications) to drive users into our product.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

One of things I’ve loved the most about doing now 11 weeks of This Week in VC is a chance to have an hour-long recorded conversation with investors. Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. ” In off the record conversations, many angels have expressed the urgency of self-discipline. RingCentral embraces text messages with new SMS tools. In fact, if anything, there are fewer.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. add mobile and sms to your app. GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers. It used to be hard to find information about early stage startups. Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013).

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

We’re co-leading the $6 million investment with Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures in NY and one of the most respected early-stage investors in the country in “big data&# companies. But one of the other major factors in Twitter is the fact that it is also “social” in that people have conversations with their peers and friends.

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