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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

How will you differentiate from these? Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? Is it limited to login and Like buttons, or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? What are your key Startup Metrics ? How do you make your money?

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The Intellectual Social Network

Start Up Blog

Quora is quickly becoming my preferred social network to ‘invest’ time in. We’ll differentiate with a funny safety video and by not being a**holes. LinkedIn – how about a professional social network, aimed at busy 30- and 40-somethings. Twitter – it is like email, SMS, or RSS.

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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Ted Livingston’s rollercoaster ride as CEO of hit messaging startup Kik

The Next Web

A fortnight ago, Boris interviewed Reed Hastings on his business lessons and experience, but now I’m shaking it up with a look at a 26-year-old founder who is disrupting the mobile and social networking spaces: Kik CEO and founder Ted Livingston. We shut down Kik Chat, and the next day we launched Kik Messenger,” Livingston says.

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What to do When a Tech Giant Decides to Eat Your Lunch

Both Sides of the Table

While Google stopped Facebook in their tracks when they built a social networking company. And Facebook stomped out Twitter from building an open social network. You need to be clear on what your sources of differentiation are from the biggest competitors or you’re dead anyways. We terminate to SMS.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Twitter’s significance stems from the fact that it is a real time, open, asymmetric, social, viral referral network that is often location aware and provides both explicit and implicit interests and preferences. This turns out to be one of the real differentiators for Twitter. The Importance of Twitter. Not so on Twitter.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness. Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. .

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