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7 Basic Tips For App Development

YoungUpstarts

Besides sharing your hours of business, wine selections, and menu, your app could also load your existing RSS feed to display fresh specials every day. If your app is slower and more cumbersome than a mobile-optimized website, why would anyone bother using it? Why Simplicity Matters. Speed Matters. Testing Is Vital.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

How concerned are we about design for mobile? Native mobile apps? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Does it need to playback on mobile devices? Do you need to provide RSS?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

How concerned are we about design for mobile? Native mobile apps? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Does it need to playback on mobile devices? Do you need to provide RSS?

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Quickly Unpacking Spotify’s Acquisition Of Gimlet Media

Haystack

For Spotify’s core business, which charges consumer subscriptions for the ability to have unlimited mobile access to an enormous music library, music as the audio source converts high engagement minutes into recurring revenue via subscriptions. 5/ Underlying RSS Technology Not Optimal For 21st Century Media.

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Seven Compelling Reasons Why You Should Redesign Your Website

crowdSPRING Blog

Your site isn’t responsive or mobile-friendly. Your site isn’t responsive or mobile-friendly. In 2008, famed digital trends and internet analyst Mary Meeker predicted that mobile web traffic would overtake desktop traffic by 2014. You aren’t getting the results you want. You want more effective content.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile. The most obvious change is that now social networks become mobile & “location aware.&# The highest profile brand in this space is FourSquare.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

EE Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:30 am Said: [.] Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. What a sly dog you are (wink) having set your “competitor&# up for failure. Good stuff too. Now In Print!