Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

Ryan had a vision for an integration web-based system to layer on top of all of this to help support and manage the software development process. In 2003 – while Agile was known – it was largely limited to ISVs and a few leading IT organizations. We weren’t the first investor in Rally.

Software 70

Software Technology Agile SCRUM 70

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In his 2005 book, The World Is Flat , Thomas Friedman recognizes that the Internet has the ability to create a “level playing field” for all participants, and one where geographic distances become less relevant. Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. annual GMV.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. He created Wallstrip, and more than 400 original web video shows, which was purchased by CBS Corp.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. We raised $16.5 million in our A round. Hardware ate just over 10% of the round.

Cloud 343

Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac. Currently Facebook boasts somewhere in excess of 400 mi.

Small Business 41

Small Business Social Media Engineer Matching 41

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). Though I should point out was still doing client work for OneMatchFire until mid-2005 until the business could pay full salaries. How did the site come about?

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Cofounder SMS 48

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

But there’s also the satellite-mapping company Keyhole, which in 2003 became the seed that sprouted Google Maps. And maybe you heard of a tiny Linux-based mobile software designer Google bought in 2005, called Android Inc.? Google bought web 2.0 Google bought web 2.0 On2 Technologies. ITA Software.

San Francisco 104

San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

The bulk of the patents they believe Facebook is infringing pertain to things like A) display & targeting of online ads, B) online privacy, C) personalization of a user’s web experience, D) general online messaging (Yahoo! owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking. ’s claims are pretty lame.

IP 100

IP IPO Social Network Silicon Valley 100

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

I Have a Web Site, What Else Should I be Doing Online 1 You should be doing what so many of your competitors are NOT doing – turning your attention toward building excitement around yourself and your brand. Otherwise, yeah, nice Web site, dude. No one cares. Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

Web 52

Web Small Business Social Media Matching 52

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

On the other extreme, modern web-based applications face almost no technical risk, and are governed by high market uncertainty. Eric) In a bar in Amsterdam in 2005, my two cofounders and I came to the sad conclusion that startup we tried to built for two years was doomed. What follows are solely his opinions.

Continuous Deployment 164

Continuous Deployment Technical Cofounder Cofounder San Francisco 164

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

I Have a Web Site, What Else Should I be Doing Online 4 One of the most common forms of online marketing for small businesses is to have a website. The problem is, with today’s increasingly social and mobile web, a web site just isn’t enough. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

Web 37

Web Social Media Small Business Social Network 37

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

I Have a Web Site, What Else Should I be Doing Online 3 The web is not a venue where, “if you build it, they will come.&# Spend some time discovering where your customers and people like them are hanging out on the web. You have to make sure your audience knows your website is there and that it can help them.

Web 36

Web Social Media Public Relations Small Business 36

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

How about a person who moves here from Boston but keeps his Boston phone number on his SmartPhone and uses it to surf the web and order “software?” That has huge implications for virtually any business, whose software purchases and implementations are infinitely more complex than a person downloading TurboTax from the Web.

Software 48

Software SQL Colorado Fractional CTO 48

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2011

Verishow – live chat and support tool that also let’s you launch an on the spot web meeting with a site visitor. Bag the Web – helps users curate Web content. For any topic, you can create a “bag&# to collect, publish, and share any content from the Web. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

Social Media 56

Social Media Curation RSS Web 56

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 17, 2011

A number of web based technologies such as Poll Everywhere have cropped up of late making it very affordable to poll audiences by having them use SMS and their own mobile device. For an event, this technology requires that there is a web connection available, but you can also use this in print or other environments to collect data.

SMS 73

SMS Marketing Mobile Social Media 73

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 20, 2011

One element that I don’t see much movement in though is the typical About Us kind of page that we’ve all grown familiar with on most Web sites. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

Social Media 67

Social Media RSS Engineer Public Relations 67

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 6, 2011

There is some vagueness in Google’s language about who will actually see your +1s – “And even if none of your friends are baristas or caffeine addicts, we may still show you how many people across the web have +1’d your local coffee shop.&# Even more speculation surrounds how Google will use this new data point.

Small Business 71

Small Business Marketing Social Media Search 71

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 25, 2011

mitinteractivetechdesign via Flickr There are two very big factors in the effectiveness of our marketing message, Web pages, and calls to action – the communication of a true benefit to the reader and the ability to get this benefit communicated without confusion. Balancing both of these needs is the tricky part.

Small Business 65

Small Business Marketing Social Media Web 65

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 26, 2011

You simply adds these search shortcuts in Google and you can slice and dice a web site up in hundreds of useful ways. link] Google Search Shortcuts – Google has a list of operators that you can use to do customer searches that will turn up lots of information on sites you are analyzing. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

SEO 69

SEO Small Business Marketing Search 69

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Shama Kabani Web and TV personality. As an active thought leader in the search marketing industry, he’s contributed to top industry publications such as Mashable, iMedia Connection and Yahoo Search Marketing Blog along with publishing TopRank’s Online Marketing Blog. Bestselling author. International Speaker. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

Small Business 53

Small Business Marketing Social Media Cofounder 53

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 13, 2011

We’ve swung so far over to the “information wants to be free” thinking that I believe it’s presenting a challenge for businesses and content consumers and the Web in general. 5 Reasons Free Is Hurting Us All The following originally appeared on American Express OPENForum. Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

Community 65

Community Social Media RSS Engineer 65

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 26, 2011

Speaking of Kate Spade Posted by : John Jantsch on Apr 26, 2011 | 11:13 am Categories : Marketing Strategy , Web Marketing Tags : administrative professional week , American Express , Thank You Popular Posts Adding the Facebook Like. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

Social Media 63

Social Media RSS Engineer Public Relations 63

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2011

Related Posts: Getting More From Your Google Maps Profile Adding the Google +1 Button A Facebook and Google Reader App for Bloggers Real Time is Big Time Google Adds Wonderwheel Search Results Option Posted by : John Jantsch on Jun 29, 2011 | 7:21 am Categories : Social Media , Web Marketing Tag : Google Popular Posts Adding the Facebook Like.

Small Business 70

Small Business Social Media Social Network Flash 70

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2011

Scale the Wall Lots of companies out there want to provide apps for Facebook tabs and interactive welcome pages, but you must understand that the way people actually view your presence on Facebook is different than on, say, your Web site.

Small Business 78

Small Business Social Media Networking Engineer 78

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2011

I think this is a tool that will be adopted and added to Web pages as thoroughly as the Like button as it presents some functionality that has long been missing. With this addition Facebook users have the ability to share content privately with as little as one other friend if they like.

Social Media 67

Social Media Social Network RSS Engineer 67

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 14, 2011

Image kase3k via Flickr Good stuff I found this week: Olark – Very full featured real time chat tool for your web site. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr. Gives you the ability to initiate help and sales chats while visitors are on your site.

Small Business 56

Small Business Marketing Social Media RSS 56

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 21, 2011

TweetPsych – creates a psychological profile of any public Twitter account and identifies those traits that are used more or less frequently by the user analyzed Tagaroo – WordPress plugin the analyzes your text as you type and suggest relevant tags from around the web and also suggest images from Flickr.

Small Business 56

Small Business Marketing Social Media RSS 56

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 16, 2011

iPromote – somewhat freaky technology takes a look at the content on your Web site and instantly creates banner ads. Tout – Tool that makes it very easy to templatize, organize and track those routine emails that you use over and over again. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

Small Business 54

Small Business Marketing Social Media RSS 54

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 22, 2011

On the flip side, a business with great products and services, but no clear differeniator, will struggle to some extent no matter how brilliant their execution of the latest and greatest marketing tactics. In an effort to help illustrate the extent of the problem I challenge you to take the Pork Belly Test.

Kansas City 65

Kansas City Small Business Kansas Marketing 65

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

It’s almost like the clock is moving backwards to 2004/2005 when blogs when there was much less noise in the blogosphere, but a smaller audience of commited, early adopters. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. 7 Matt Watson : DragonDrop.org » on 09.15.10

Software Review 49

Software Review RSS Software Developers Software Development 49

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Her blog, Escape from Cubicle Nation , is one of the top career and marketing blogs on the web. Pamela Slim Pamela Slim is a seasoned coach and writer who helps frustrated employees in corporate jobs break out and start their own business. She is also an author of Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur.

Atlanta 52

Atlanta Marketing Social Media RSS 52

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Asocs – Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets MultiComms™. BoomRing Communication – Founded in 2005, Boomring offers a complete solution for hosting providers and enterprises, seamlessly integrates mobile, VoIP and fixed communication. processors that provide seamless connectivity over diverse wireless networks.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac. Currently Facebook boasts somewhere in excess of 400 mi.

Social Media 51

Social Media Cofounder Small Business Engineer 51

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. The spin-out took a few months to negotiate and didn’t actually close until February 2005.

Valuation 98

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac. Currently Facebook boasts somewhere in excess of 400 mi.

Social Media 57

Social Media Stock Media RSS 57

www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

Ive amassed a personal collection of source information over the past 15 years, this summary mainly includes information that you can readily find on the Web. As I noted, almost all the documents cited here are available on the Web. Sustained Reduced Sleep Can have Serious Consequences , Linda Cook, NINR, March 2003.

Software Review 90

Software Review Technical Review Widget Los Angeles 90

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

His blog – Web Ink Now – is ranked by AdAge Power 150 as a top worldwide marketing blog. David Meerman Scott David is the author of 7 books, Real-Time Marketing & PR , is his newest addition to the collection.

Small Business 53

Small Business Marketing Social Media Cofounder 53