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A Seriously Great Story and Why We Funded Them

Both Sides of the Table

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!) We funded about $2 million, which allowed a full team in Finland to be recruited for building the app and an international management team led from Los Angeles. The results?

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10 Companies Want To Show You The Money

YoungUpstarts

Requirements: You must be a safe driver, not afraid to put miles on your ride and an iPhone or Android in order to use the Lyft mobile app. An on-demand mobile marketplace allowing busy people to outsource their errands and tasks for a fee. Paul, San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, and Washington, DC. Task Rabbit.

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5 Lessons From the Garage48 Helsinki Hackathon

ReadWriteStart

It gathered 120 hackers from Finland, Estonia and Latvia under the same roof and challenged them to go from zero to demo in 48 hours. The concept was simple: motion based remote control of a robot using your mobile. Garage48 Helsinki , the largest hackathon in the Nordics, took place last week. One example was Montroller.

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Finnish Police To Tap On Location-Based Service Grafetee.com To Make Neigborhoods Safer

YoungUpstarts

But in the case of Helsinki, Finland-based location-based app Grafetee (www. Grafetee is a mobile location-aware application for smartphones and other mobile devices that allows users to update their status with images and text in real-time. You know something’s serious when the police gets involved.

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Even more global innovation

deal architect

Google''s Project Loon Finland''s next blockbuster Spain: Mobile Banking Innovation Santander: A city of sensors. We hear so much about Silicon Valley and Bangalore and Shanghai that it is refreshing to hear about innovations in other parts of the world. Innovative Business Uses of Technology'

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6 Customer Journey Mapping Examples: How UX Pros Do It

ConversionXL

Kofi Senaya, Director of Product at Clearbridge Mobile , a Canadian-based mobile app development agency, argues that “mapping out the customer journey is an effective way to understand what turns a viewer into a long-term, loyal customer.” CXL has a very in-depth article on how to do that here. Defining Customer Journey Stages.

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Mobile is Global

Austin Startup

Intellectually, most people “get&# that the market for mobile technology and apps is a global one. Innovation in mobile can happen anywhere, as nicely highlighted in an excellent, free eBook by Tomi Ahonen. Pay attention to international – mobile is global. mobileTech Tuesday, by Steve Guengerich.

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