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

Both Sides of the Table

There is nothing viral! Between our on-board CPUs and your mobile phone companions we have an enormous amount of data on transportation routes, where riders want to pick up scooters in the morning and where they leave them in the evening. Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! Anybody can launch a scooter service! Not really.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. The San Francisco-based company made do with $50 million to build its product from scratch to current iteration. 7) Shopify.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers.

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7 Social Media Tactics Your 2013 Budget Needs to Succeed

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Media Planning Media Buying Publishing Display Advertising Video Mobile. Actionable marketing tip: At a minimum, have a mobile strategy to ensure that consumers can access your site from your social media location regardless of whether theyre using a computer, smartphone, or tablet. Show your emotional side to increase virality.

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How to get beta signups for your startup in 9 steps

thenextweb.com

1 A viral launch page. If you can’t get into LaunchRock, take a look at Launch Effect , a viral ready WordPress theme. #2 Read up on The Age of Coworking in San Francisco. Murdochs Sun newspaper reportedly shuns paywall in favor of paid mobile apps and ads. All Stories. Top Stories. Daily Dose. Entrepreneur.

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Accel APX conference: short take aways

Cracking the Code

A NEW GENERATION OF APPS AND THE APIs THAT POWER THEM I was lucky to be able to attend our Accel APX conference in San Francisco last week.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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Offers virality optimization tools and A/B testing inside Facebook. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Includes content mobile guides, ie. Based in San Francisco with 13 employees, CEO Zach Coelius. -A Total Raised: $21.4mm.