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Brevado Launches Timeline App

When I asked Brevado CEO Nick Zafiropoulos what his product looked like coming into their Startup Factory acceleration session just 10 weeks back, his answer was, well, honest. “We had about 30 alpha users and a buggy product that didn’t do much of anything,” he laughed. Chris and Dave, the TSF guys, saw something in that product, as well as the team and the plan, and it turns out they were onto something, because today, a whole eight days before the TSF Fall Showcase, Brevado is launching their Timeline App and beginning the conversion process (from freemium to free...

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Deconstructing the Hackathon

The concept of a hackathon is not new. It’s sort of new for me, as my coding days ended long before it became cool to put all the geeks in a room for a couple days and let them go apeshit. In my day, a hackathon was networking together enough computers to play Quake. But I get the vibe. After all, I’m building ExitEvent.com with a team of me. If I want to include automated links for companies we mention in the articles to their websites or profile pages we create on the fly, it pretty much requires a...

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