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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build. As for web and social apps, for some platforms, you’ll want to have a special development team. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. Image credits: Flickr, goincase.

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How can startups engage with Google?

VC Cafe

This most likely involves a combination of an operational team (cloud, enterprise, commerce, etc) and the corporate development team, led by Don Harrison. Notable acquisitions include Youtube and Nest, or more recently smart glasses manufacturer North or wearable tracker FitBit (under review). Open for all.

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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

We chose to integrate our product closely with Pinterest, which was the talk of the town in the summer of 2012, and allow our users to do more with their carefully curated photos. A tip from our dev team: don’t hard-code strings in your app. If your update is buggy, users will be intolerant and trash you in reviews and ratings.

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