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The R/GA Connected Devices Accelerator, Powered by Techstars

Feld Thoughts

R/GA creates advertising and marketing products based in technology and design and has earned countless accolades over the years, including Advertising Age’s “Digital A-List” and “Agencies of the Decade.” It’s super exciting to me to do an accelerator program specifically around connected devices with Techstars.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.”

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Why Native Apps May Not Be Our Mobile Future

YoungUpstarts

Let’s not forget that back in 2007 when the folks at Apple made us fall in love with apps, the mobile web was in its infancy. This gives users the same hassle-free experience apps provide, without having to download or purchase any programs. This allows for things like location-based offers and mobile advertising.

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Twitter Link Roundup #212 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Can you imagine getting your competitors to advertise for you? Tech hubs have better inequality performance since 2007 than other large cities. DHL Pranked UPS Into Advertising For Them – crowdspring.co/1jOeA6v. The Best Free Fonts for Coding & Programming - crowdspring.co/1nHghTB. Well done, DHL!

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Overcoming The Top 4 iBeacon Liabilities

YoungUpstarts

When an app encounters a beacon’s chirp, the app will perform a pre-programmed function, such as displaying an ad on a smartphone screen. To advertise to your shoppers that you offer deals through their smartphones and failing to deliver is too great a risk that can seriously degrade your customer’s trust.

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What Makes A Successful Franchisee?

YoungUpstarts

Proven Marketing and Advertising Strategies. Spending money and time on advertising efforts can weigh heavily on a small business owner. Many other expensive costs that the franchisor typically subsidizes for their franchisees include; uniforms, equipment and training programs. Brandon Moxam joined U.S.

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Opting-out of Face Recognition at Airports

Austin Startup

So, we spent a lot of money to develop a biometric entry/exit program for foreign nationals visiting the United States. What we actually got was a program that tracks foreign nationals when they enter the United States but not when they exit because that’s hard. Currently, the program is operating in several major airports like John F.