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Austin in San Francisco

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

When people can devise their own lifestyle, career, and mobility more than at any other time in history, it’s interesting to ask how a startup can support and encourage its employees beyond a paycheck. So when Austin said he wanted to move to San Francisco from eponymous Austin (Texas), supporting his move was a no-brainer.

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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

Both Sides of the Table

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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How can startups engage Amazon and AWS

VC Cafe

Amazon Corporate Development – Notable acquisitions include Whole Foods ($13.7B), smart doorbell system Ring ($1.2B, 2018) and autonomous mobility technology Zoox ($1.2bn). Amazon AppStore – The Amazon Appstore (mobile/tablet) for Android and Fire OS operated by Amazon.com. Physical space.

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Top 14 Sites to Promote Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

It’s a place for product-loving enthusiasts to share and geek out about the latest mobile apps, websites, hardware projects, and tech creations. Why it’s great: Product Hunt is a great way to promote your mobile app or software. Why it’s great: The Startup Pitch is great for promoting your mobile app or software.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

But today, the equilibrium is shifting for many founders. A new report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development says that a San Francisco metro area family of four bringing in $117,400 a year qualifies as “low income.” In many places, mobile data and hardwired internet were still billed based upon usage.

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Rapid Iteration for Mobile App Development

Startup Lessons Learned

She’s the founder and Creative Director at Xanadu, a mobile strategy and design consultancy helping to guide app developers to success in a rapidly-changing, often chaotic mobile ecosystem. This is a great distinction; so how can a mobile app developer know which of these is their particular problem?

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[Singapore] Location Based Marketing Association Launches Local Chapter

YoungUpstarts

“It promises to be… the start of a new, collaborative era for those working in Asia’s LBS space,” asserts Christian Geissendoerfer, founder of hyper-local mobile ad network YOOSE , and one of the founding members of LBMA Singapore.

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