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LeFever
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I was there yesterday, and we actually presented and ended up tied for second place. AppThwack (Not to be confused with a "brain tumor") is a rapid, automated QA service for testing Android apps on real, non-emulated devices in a massively
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The first time I say it out loud to someone there's often a request to hear it again. If they're a native speaker it generally clicks with an emphasis on "Thwack." If they're not, spelling it clears it up rather quickly. Usually it's becaus
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LeFever
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The first time we publicly demoed AppThwack it was pointed out. On the other hand, people seem to remember it and generally react positively. Who knows if it will stick, but we agree on it enough for now that it's better to focus on the pro
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Thanks! We've gone back and forth a ton of times, especially because of the obvious "Aflac" thing. We get a lot of comments that are positive, and of course some that are negative, but nobody seems to have a problem remembering it. I'm way
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LeFever
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As a counterpoint, my company was featured on TC this morning and we're boot-strapped and neither of us are even close to being rock stars. I realize we may be an exception to the rule, but it is possible for a young company (We started Mar
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Absolutely. We started out in very similar fashion, working on our product on the side and only quitting our day jobs when we absolutely had to to progress further. For the first two months we regularly put in at least 12 hours a day seven
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How we built our mobile device lab
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