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How and Why You Should Validate Your App Idea Before You Build

Up and Running

The end user of the application was those who recycled, however, the recycling and reward redemption process required partnerships with recycling facilities, local businesses, and government agencies. Those partners paid for a membership with Recycler Spotter. 60 percent of respondents chose premium! Priorities change.

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Integrating SMS into Existing Marketing Efforts

Up and Running

During the onboarding process you will have chosen a keyword that represents your business, brand, or product. This keyword is quite literally the key to subscribing to your opt-in SMS distribution list. We include an expiration date so we can control the redemption. Here’s a live example: Text KEYWORD to 86201. Event Promotion.

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Does Elon Musk + Peter Thiel = 3 or 1.5

Professor VC

I was a Limited Partner in Angel Investors II (Ron Conway's angel fund) that was an investor in Confinity. Luckily, Google was one of the 150 and did ultimately return the fund assuming the LP was smart enough to hold the stock after distribution. Both companies offered home security and automation services through partners.

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