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Author's Acknowledgments

If you're not included here, I've probably thanked you in person already. If not, I apologize, because it's impossible to include everyone who made this possible. Thanks to my family for supporting me along the way. Thanks to my boss, and those who work with me, for being flexible enough to allow me to finish this while working a full-time job (and running a company on the side!).

A special thank-you to each and every blog or news organization that has ever covered me or my companies and books over the years: Mashable, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, TheNextWeb, Venturebeat, New York Times, to name a few — I'm very grateful. I've tried to say thank you back by including each and every one under http://delicious.com/jessestay/coverage.

Thanks to some of my dearest advisors and mentors over the years. I truly look up to them, and they have made much of what I do possible through their advice and shared knowledge — they are all dear friends: Guy Kawasaki, Jason Alba, Louis Gray, Rodney Rumford, and Jeremiah Owyang, to name a few. I treasure each chance I get with them to learn something new.

Thanks to Stephan Heilner and Ray Hunter for their contributions to the mobile chapter. They are two of the best mobile developers I know, and they were invaluable in helping to make that chapter interesting.

Thanks to Katie Feltman, Christopher Morris, and the entire team at Wiley for being so patient with me as I wrote this. The Wiley team has been one of the most pleasant ...