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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Kayak is great Boston-area success story. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on.

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Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

For companies in the early-adopter phase, you can play "the earlyvangelist game" whenever a customer turns out to be too mainstream for your product. Pick a similar product that they do use, and ask them "who was the first person you know who started using [social networking, mobile phones, plasma TV, instant messaging.]?

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Making Friends With Millennials: Evolving The Customer Service Story

YoungUpstarts

They are highly educated and mobile centric. hours per day, on their mobile phones. At 1 million strong, the millennials in Singapore are a sizeable demographic with spending power to match, their online behaviour and appetite for digital experiences with brands are reshaping the very fabric of customer service delivery.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, if any of the mobile ad networks gets major traction, they may become a dominant way that people discover new apps. If the rating in the App Store is based on usage, I am sure those popular social networking applications are sure to be in the top and the hot seat always. The observation sounds strange.

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

Startup Lessons Learned

So there is an opportunity to build new brands with attributes like "the most amazing mobile apps" but I think building a company around that strategy means really thinking through how to do it. This can even vary by category, as people apply different criteria to games vs. utilities vs. social networking apps.