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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Apple and Facebook are both platforms , in the sense that their software and user networks are utilized by countless software developers to build their own businesses. In 2011 Facebook paid out $1.4 billion to developers and Apple paid out something like $2B or so. Apple generated nearly $130B in revenue in 2011.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

Guttula, Bizosys' CEO, and Karana founded the company with the goal to "simplify software development." The second product is 10Screens, a tool to visualize business requirements critical to software development, which tend to be hampered by poor communication among various stakeholders.

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

crowdSPRING Blog

The image above is taken in Takotna, Alaska during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on March 9, 2011. More phenomenal photos from 2011 are in the Other section below. The State of Social Marketing 2011 – 2012 – [link]. Last Collection Of Creative Ads For 2011 – [link]. Small Businesses and Startups: Worst.

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Freemium is alive and kicking

David Cohen

The first path is set up a pay wall and run the customers through a sales process. Freemium was popularized as a term about 5 years ago but has been used by software developers for much longer. The paid software business models available to you are simply a bag of tools. Here’s the data: 2007: 10%.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

Last weekend I caught Mashable announcing that Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover in the U.S. And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. Like the problem solver I had been trained as in my software development days, I parsed his issue.

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It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem

ConversionXL

The traditional method of product development, known as the waterfall model , the design and creation of a product follows a very liner, and sequential process. Though the waterfall model is specifically to software development, it’s core principles resonate beyond software and into startups across the board.

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Twitter Link Roundup #75 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

90+ creative advertising & design from January-February 2011 – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. BlockBuster puts itself up for sale – [link]. Building A Disruption-Proof Business – [link]. – [link].