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A Sense of Déjà Vu: Why focusing on monetization is critical for mobile app developers.

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Christine Tsai| 1 Comment

Meet Lucky Luke aka 500 SuperMentor and Founder Michael Oiknine (@apsalarinc).  Michael is co-founder & CEO of Apsalar, a behavioral targeting and analytics platform for mobile apps.  Prior to Apsalar, Michael was co-Founder & COO of Kefta, a SaaS provider … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Tech Investing Trends For 2011

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Dave McClure| 25 Comments

This post by 500 Overlord Dave McClure was originally published on Reuters. No apologies for shameless plugs and links on several of our 500 Startups we believe embody these trends. Top 10 Tech Trends for 2011 1. (Way too many) … Continue reading →

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The Pleasure Principle: Not All Products Need To Be Painkillers

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Christine Tsai| 1 Comment

We’re excited to welcome Khush to the 500 Startups family! Khush develops the music-creation iPhone app LaDiDa which has been downloaded 270,000 times. Khush means “happy” in Hindi. Below is a repost from TechCrunch which was written by Prerna Gupta, CEO and … Continue reading →

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Making Your Startup A Platform

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Christine Tsai| Leave a comment

Meet Green Lantern, aka super-mentor Ben Lewis. Ben is a co-founder and VP of Product at Tapjoy, a platform offering mobile publishers solutions for application discovery, rich advertising, and virtual good sales. Before life as an entrepreneur, Ben was a … Continue reading →

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