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The Seven Deadly Sins Of Digital User Experience

YoungUpstarts

One of the best defenses against gluttony is to embrace the “mobile first” approach. Thelton McMillian is the founder & CEO of Oakland, CA-based Comrade, a design and strategy agency that creates digital products and services like mobile and Web apps to help businesses improve their user experience.

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Diverse Lead Firms

Austin Startup

We focus on 5 key areas — mobile, e-commerce, enterprise, education and health — and on what we believe to be new groundbreaking technologies, such as AI, 3D imaging, bio informatics, and connected devices. A boutique venture fund, we customize our relationship with each portfolio company in a way that is meaningful and critical for them.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

View More in Mobile ›. Coats says a final bit of inspiration actually came from reading “Moneyball,” which describes how the Oakland A’s used “Sabermetrics”—essentially a whole new dimension of player statistics—to upend 100 years of conventional wisdom about evaluating baseball players. View More in Health IT ›. Life Sciences ›.

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Super Bowls and Scenes

Austin Startup

I, for one, am hoping to see some novel apps and other mobile products and technologies this year. Specific to mobile, then, we took another step this week in mapping the broader mobile scene in two other Texas cities: Dallas and Houston.

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Small business love: trucks, pop-ups, and nomadic goodness

crowdSPRING Blog

Part of the answer lies in technology, mobility, and a smaller footprint which allows for iteration and evolution of the business as it develops, without the relentless pressure of huge overhead. Another interesting model has been wandering around Oakland, California this year.

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Small business love: trucks, pop-ups, and nomadic goodness

crowdSPRING Blog

Part of the answer lies in technology, mobility, and a smaller footprint which allows for iteration and evolution of the business as it develops, without the relentless pressure of huge overhead. Another interesting model has been wandering around Oakland, California this year.

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A Conference, a Dad, an Idea, a Team, Funding, and a Launch: Brooklyn's Own Tinybop is Live on the App Store!

This is going to be BIG.

Their goal is to be a brand that parents and teachers trust to produce high-quality, fun, and inspiring mobile products that enable learning and encourage kids to explore the world around them. They also went live in the App Store today with their first in a series of apps, The Human Body.

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