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Back to The Future: Power of SMS-Native

View from Seed

It is the one message-space on your phone that you always pay attention to: SMS text messages. And SMS text messages are at the top. Yes, there is something truly special about SMS… it’s: Universal. Most important, yet the most subtle, SMS implies a personal interaction. How do consumers cut through all of it?

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Leading Business Transformation – Featured Founder Mitul Ruparelia

The Startup Magazine

Mobile phone technological advance. Beginning of 2009, Mitul designed and sold a solution that enables mobile operators across the globe to seamlessly exchange SMS, while taking care of billing, settlement, and routing. Transformation of Mobile Handset business. During that time, he had key successes.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. You don’t need a developer to use App Inventor, and you can create Android applications that use a smartphone’s features, including GPS and SMS.

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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

HW: You’re on the verge of ending the role of COO at InVenture, a business that provides mobile-based credit scoring and direct lending in emerging markets. But we obsessed over the emerging market customer and we made some hard, big bets on Android and mobile money being used around the globe.

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Is 2009 the year of mobile computing?

BeyondVC

 As I look around post-holiday season, I am seeing more and more regular, non-technical friends and family get connected on their mobile devices.    Clearly that was just the beginning of a longer term trend for mobile devices to get more powerful, easier to use, and more widely deployed into the market. 

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

When he entered the industry he caught the tail end of the dot com bubble and then was immediately thrust into a 3-year period of “triage&# where VC’s had to deal with problems in portfolio companies. Developer and publisher of social mobile games. SGN games downloaded +17mm times on mobile devices.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

Creating and showing constant momentum through personal portfolio projects and volunteering is a powerful means of landing a new job as a product manager, especially if one has never officially held the professional title “Product Manager.” E.g. , Mobile? stars to 4.6 stars overall out of >20,000 reviews.” What’s the platform? (