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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Far from it.

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OCTOBER 19, 2014

Andrew was SVP of Mobile at Fox Digital Entertainment which launched the very successful Simpsons online game (curse you for wasting tons of my kids free time!) They had all of their character development started (they showed up mock-ups) and the basic gameplay for Game 1 was through through (but not yet built). And Seriously.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile.

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APRIL 4, 2011

They have a mobile app and I felt like it crashed too much for my liking. And given your stage of development you sure better at least know what your goal is. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? How do the mobile customers break down by device type? On measurement. Is it 4/1,000?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in. But more importantly Ethan developed the belief over time that consumers really needed a service that would allow them to book across many different service businesses from one convenient location.

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

We also built two very high-quality mobile apps that we were experimenting with in terms of building better customer acquisition toools. We built great eCommerce tools from scratch, spent a great deal of efforts deeply integrating with Pinterest and build great corporate relationships with Target and the like.

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MAY 19, 2010

Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Zong – mobile payments has been a very hot area over the past couple of years with the success and growth of both Boku and Zong. Boku and Zong focus mostly on mobile payments for virtual goods. It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. VC Financings: 1.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

For example, if you’re looking to approach Kleiner Perkins it’s worth knowing that my friend Matt Murphy runs their iFund and therefore is the in-house expert on all things mobile. He knows the history of all of the payment gateways, mobile payment platforms, credit offerings, remittance companies, etc. Neither can any VC.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

Think of web vs. mobile. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. You could look for a VC who has huge wins under his or her belt and therefore has a formula for success. Traditional software vs. SaaS. Connections?

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APRIL 18, 2019

As drivers we look out for them, as pedestrians we might be annoyed if they steer in our way but the riders themselves have developed better norms as happens in all forms of transportation. These are the local trips that tend to add to congestion and are the ones that are most vulnerable to alternate forms of micro-mobility.

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JUNE 22, 2015

If a company wanted to distribute software on a mobile device it need to sell via a “portal” (US term) or a “deck” (UK term) of a mobile carrier. Why Exclusivity Matters to Your Customers or Business Development Partners. I have often asked for funding for this accelerated development.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

I use to to learn, to grow, to ask questions for which I’m curious and to further develop relationships that I have. Mark then talked about Crittercism, a mobile feedback solution. What is your mobile strategy? Mobile is another very important distribution place for the internet and Meebo is on the iPhone, Android, and BB.

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MAY 7, 2013

Ryan was not only a senior engineer at Salesforce.com (he ran mobile and also ran content management) but was also my cofounder at Koral and lead architect at BuildOnline. He joined when Maker was a small, chaotic organization and helped bridge our talented creative team with the outside world of investor, brands, partners & press.

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MAY 19, 2013

He worked his ass off and delivered an amazing technical infrastructure to support a “big data meets social analytics” platform that could be used by any developer. Yet our initial customer success didn’t translate into big revenue growth and we faced issues such as: Do we support developers, end-users or both?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. m-Via does financial remittances using mobile phones for people from the US to Mexico. They recorded it.

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MARCH 11, 2014

In fact, many people know I grew up in NorCal and still have a 650 area code on my mobile phone. We have a large number of highly talented engineers and entrepreneurs now developing companies in our local market. LA has a serious technology scene. And I’m proud of that, too. Some were warranted – others weren’t.

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APRIL 10, 2010

As people consume Twitter on mobile clients they are almost definitionally not doing so on Twitter.com. Salesforce was very good at managing the 1-year roadmap so at any point in time we had a pretty good idea about what we would be developing and what we wouldn’t. This should be as public as possible.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Paige Craig , currently the most prolific, under-dressed, and most eligible angel in Los Angeles, sourced a hot, young startup called Gendai Games (makers of GameSalad - a platform for rapid development of mobile games).

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

What is the future of social media, digital television or mobile computing. He heads their business development practice and they have been very active in incubating, investing in and helping grow LA startups. .&# This isn’t likely to appeal to us. We want somebody who is ready, willing and able to debate tech with us.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2019

It was a sufficient barrier and we developed social graces. I’d sooner people have my mobile phone number than my email address because as a society we know the social norm that just calling or texting somebody you don’t know isn’t acceptable. It’s why the only rude or unexpected mobile phone calls I get are from telemarketers.

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MARCH 14, 2013

We provide strategic advice to digital media companies in a manner that reflects how corporate development is actually done. ” In the post they list four charts with data showing how Christmas day is a huge driver of downloads for mobile applications (obviously because many people get new smartphones for the first time).

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MARCH 23, 2015

We talk a lot about his schooling, his early jobs as a developer and then as a VC and we talk about his decision to spend winters in Los Angeles. Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.”

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JUNE 30, 2014

I also added a little Soundcloud widget on the sidebar (if you’re viewing on web – not on mobile or RSS reader) that you can listen to each episode with. In the most recent episode, I interviewed Joe Perez , Founder of Tastemade. If you don’t know Joe, you should.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.&# Gag. I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP.

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Flash Mobile Application Development Cloud 326

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MAY 11, 2014

Now three years later we look on with wonder and their developed skills on the piano and guitar. When we bought our son Jacob his mobile phone you displayed your motherly love consistent through all of his years. When is it appropriate to use a mobile phone? You gave them that gift, not me. He’ll never remember that.

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OCTOBER 11, 2011

But I do know that FourSquare has captured the zeitgeist of what young, mobile & social people want. I use technology precisely to try and develop an intuitive feel about what will work and what won’t” The management team got it. That plus great press & it’s working on some level. The VCs snickered a bit.

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Startup Guerilla Silicon Valley Portfolio 313

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APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. The company’s analytics comprehensively monitors customer behavior over multiple networks, including location-based mobile networks.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

So if you want to be a content producer and want to make money you can develop content for global “niches” of watchers who might like: Japanese Anime, South Korean drama, Bollywood productions, reality TV on any topic – fashion, cooking, travel. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. No linearity.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Are you launching a mobile application? So the whole customer development cycle is very streamlined. When you’re researching a market you can spend a year putting your hypotheses on paper but you somehow never really have a handle on the minute details of the industry until you’ve lived in it.

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MAY 23, 2012

hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web. Mobility really changes everything. According to Google data 30% of all restaurant searches now come via mobile devices. And the future?

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

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JANUARY 19, 2015

40% of all of YouTube is viewed on mobile devices and of high-quality content I believe it is between 60-70% based on my insider data. But if your goal is to develop an audience that can be monetized in other ways, I’ll repeat my argument “you need to fish in the pond where the fish are.”

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Scott Lahman , Zack Norman & Austin Murray were the three co-founders of JAMDAT, the most successful mobile 1.0 Sorry, moms. Zack is the creative talent.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Greg immediately hit the ground running with a few themes that he had developed while the CMO at HauteLook, a successful eCommerce business that sold to Nordstrom for $270 million. But how to mobilize same-day deliver cost effectively? On the other hand, you can view local physical stores as depot centers for same-day delivery.

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JULY 1, 2010

-Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Kontagent. -A

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Of course most of you know SnapChat, Tinder & Whisper and many people immediately associate the success of Los Angeles under the SoLoMo banner (Social, Local, Mobile) and you wouldn’t be wrong.

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MARCH 14, 2015

Yet someone the raw nature of filming & consuming on mobile is new. It’s not ok if you’re going to be a third-party developer. So what should a startup developer do? The best mobile companies do this. It created an energy on the show that doesn’t exist without it. It’s very intimate.

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