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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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Why you probably don’t need an API strategy

The Next Web

Prior to Netflix, Daniel ran application development for NPR where, among other things, he created the NPR API. The most common example of an API strategy is around companies who aspire to build a developer community as a new revenue source or as the foundation of their business. The reality: “API as a tactic”.

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Choosing The Right Mobile Application Architecture

YoungUpstarts

The idea of mobile application development for the enterprise is rapidly catching on, as mobile apps are now an obvious (and critical) path to both generate revenue and improve the customer experience for today’s modern businesses. What will you do to brand, distribute and support the app?

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New Web Order - Finding a Technical Co-Founder

nikcub.appspot.com

Andrew Warner of Mixergy conducted an excellent interview yesterday with an iPhone application development firm who have developed almost a dozen iPhone apps using online contract workers. Once you have put in the effort and found a potential technical co-founder, be generous with equity distribution. Recent Posts.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Both Sides of the Table

And being gateways to the customer they naturally extracted their pound of flesh from mobile application developers. So Apple has encouraged application developers to set loose building apps. We now have a couple of hundred thousand applications developed. Apple wants to take a major share of the revenue.

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After Layoffs and Profit Warnings, 888 Buys Mytopia’s assets for $18 million

VC Cafe

According to VentureBeat Games , the deal is estimated at $18 million, but could reach up to $48 million if Mytopia’s assets hits certain revenue milestones by 2011. In recent months, Mytopia changed its focus and began offering Particle Code, a cross-platform application development framework for mobile devices and tablets.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

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