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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Email / SMS Does your application send out transactional emails or SMS messages? What about reporting and moderation?

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Digital Transformation And The Evolution of Apps – What’s The Link?

YoungUpstarts

Apps popularly started out as a means for communication (call, SMS), which then evolved to a platform for content consumption in the early stages of data (news, MMS and YouTube), and finally to what we now define as demand services (food delivery, transport and e-commerce).

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Accelerator Spotlight: nudgem

View from Seed

We are providing retailers of all sizes with the tools they need to capture data directly from their customers (zero-party data) and then use this data to personalize the entire buying journey, from the onsite experience to the email and SMS marketing campaigns. RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder?

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Business Schools And Early Stage Entrepreneurship

ReadWriteStart

Badri's solution is an email and SMS-based reminder service for them to take the tests and medications at the right time. Next Badri Badrinarayanan V S, from Chennai, India, pitched DiaSof , a software-based solution for disease management of diabetes patients in India.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

The main observation of differences between Silicon Valley and emerging tech hubs in the rest of the world is access to early stage seed funding and international press. With Safari Yetu, you pay online or via mobile, receive an SMS reservation or ticket and go to the bus station once; the day you are traveling.

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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

Social benefit companies also have access to impact investors which can provide 6 & 7 figure zero-dilution grants, which are an early stage secret weapon. To find my perfect fit I logged over 50 meetings with all the people I knew and respected in the greater tech industry and laid out my thesis to each of them.

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Open to All: Scholarships for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

So we’ve got scholarships for people who wouldn’t otherwise be able to attend—early-stage entrepreneurs, particularly those from beyond Silicon Valley; staff from small non-profits; and students. Early-stage entrepreneurs; people participating in startrup incubator or accelerator programs; and bootstrappers.

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