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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

If you launched tomorrow, how many users would you forecast? Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask Here are some additional questions that might have slipped your developers’ minds. Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? How big is the anticipated development team?

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Estimating App Development: What Small Businesses Need To Know?

YoungUpstarts

Software development companies face lots of different cases, but generally all of them fall into two main categories: – Client has been nursing the idea of his/her mobile app for a long time but it takes months or even years to bring it to the stage of development estimation. . The second issue is a social network API.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive.

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Twitter Link Roundup #162 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The Dunbar Number, From the Guru of Social Networks | Businessweek - [link]. Social Networking Eats Up 3+ Hours Per Day For The Average American User - [link]. Creative Forecast: How Marketing Will Change In 2013 | Co.Create – [link]. 11 Obvious A/B Tests You Should Try - [link].

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Twitter Link Roundup #115 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

CEC’s Startup Forecast – “Never been a better time to start a company in Chicago” – [link]. Social network addiction around the world (Israelis are the most addicted) – [link]. 20 Useful Tools, Stencils and GUI Kits for Android Developers – [link].

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. There are three sides to the network: the consumer, the venue and the advertiser.

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Twitter Link Roundup #172 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Forecasting Fox | NYTimes – [link]. Amazon’s New Mobile Ad Network Is A Huge Threat To Google | Business Insider – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. How Groupthink Can Ruin Startups | The Next Web – [link].