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In this segment, Jeff Brenner, CEO of Pressly, answers the question why are some of the largest brands in the world coming to his company, how they convince companies to abandon their previous efforts in building native applications to use their platform, how they landed the Toronto Star as their first marquee client, why using Flipboard is not a good brand decision and why build a web experience over a native app.

In this first segment of our episode with Pressly CEO Jeff Brenner, we focus on his background, where the opportunity is in the publishing space, attacking the engineering hurdles of building a disruptive product and what the challenges have been transitioning from a consulting company into a product company.

This is the second segment of this episode with Localmind co-founder Lenny Rachitsky (Part 1: Localmind co-founder Lenny Rachitsky talks version 2.0) where the conversation focuses on the changes in the industry over the past year that have influenced their product decisions, the competitive landscape and Localmind’s differentiation, the impact that voice will have on search and their business, plus Lenny leaves us with 3 lessons his team learned while building and deploying Localmind 2.0.

This is part 3 (of 3) of a deeper dive with Piictu founder Jon Slimak. In this segment the discussion revolves around the mobile photo app world and generating revenue, the ginormous analytics opportunity and how you know if your product has the right product/user fit.

In this first segment with Lenny Rachitsky, co-founder of Localmind, we dive into the new version of the product, the algorithm by which they determine who is the most appropriate person to send questions to, the big changes in the product and the changes in their perception of the product as they went back into development after extensive user testing and feedback.

This is part 2 (of 3) of a deeper dive with Piictu founder Jon Slimak. In this segment we talk about the importance of the user experience and their approach to app development as well as their involvement in TechStars and the fact that Jon comes from a non-technical background and how that impacted the app experience.

Mobile and photographs are a perfect match and an early wave of disruption as a result of the mobile industry. We are now in the midst of a transition from what photos were (memories) into what they are becoming (conversations) and in the middle of this is Jon Slimak and his company Piictu. This is part 1 of a deep conversation around the future of the photo and how Jon’s company is creating communities of conversations around the pictures we take.

In this final segment: Holger Luedorf, VP Mobile and Internation at Foursquare and I explore Foursquare’s view on mobile commerce and enablement and how the relationship with their partner American Express has panned out, their thoughts on how NFC will impact their business, the importance of their new product Save to Foursquare and how Foursquare views the competition.

In the second part of this three part episode (part one can be found here), Holger Luedorf, VP Mobile and Internation for Foursquare, and I go deeper into the way merchants use Foursquare to drive foot trafic, the Foursquare monetization strategy and international expansion and localization.

This is part one of a three part interview I did with Holger Luedorf, VP of Mobile and International at Foursquare. In this episode we discuss his background, what the appeal of working at the company for him was, the massive changes that happen to a company in rapid growth and transition and some of the things that excite him about what Foursquare is doing.

PlaceIQ Co-founder and CEO Duncan McCall shines a light on how the information that is around us – time and location – creates a context to buy and how consumers and companies can start benefiting from it.

We’ve all used this app, Shazam, but what we failed to see from the start is just how this one app that helps us discover music is now poised to take on the advertising industry and it has the reach and users to do just that. David Jones, EVP at Shazam Entertainment is in the middle of all of this and took some time to talk the past, current and future of this little app that could.