mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re a startup entrepreneur, you risk facing a competitive disadvantage if you wait too long to expand your operations. Clearly Define Your Business Model While this may sound like a trivial task, young startups often have an exciting and innovative product, but no real plan for monetizing it. in place before you expand.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

How To Close The Books on Your Startup. This is particularly true in the fast-paced high-tech and software world, where only a small percentage of startups mature. This is particularly true in the fast-paced high-tech and software world, where only a small percentage of startups mature. Latest Startups News. Sports Lists.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. I think really hard when I’m naming a new startup. data.world was no different. We were locked.

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

6 Important Startup Trends that Defined 2011. Startups have an inherently predictive quality. As the innovation engines of the economy, what startups figured out in 2011 will likely appear on other sectors’ trend lists in 2012. Several startups embraced the idea of the preemptive checkin.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Waterloo, Canada-based Kik recently passed 80 million users, which was given particular significance from local media who noted that it took the 4-and-a-half year old startup past BlackBerry and its BBM mobile messaging solution. I went to university in Waterloo in 2005 for engineering. From all-time high to all-time low.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

He’s the founder of four companies, most recently WPEngine , and blogs weekly about startups and geekery. I’ve reviewed hundreds of startup pitches and I can tell you that everyone makes the same types of errors. Both are death for startups. Since this is the part you have control over, it makes sense to prepare.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. SEE ALSO: 8 Crucial Elements of Startup Success Many first-time entrepreneurs envision getting in the door with the right venture capitalists (VCs), financial deities who will nurture their ideas and lavish cash upon them.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

What really sets PhoneGap apart is that it lets developers create a full-functioning mobile web app but place that app in a native wrapper, so that it can use native device APIs and get submitted to the App Store or Android Market. It would be nice to go to HTML 5 if this whole API thing sorts itself out. Have an account?

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

Startup life is all about bootstrapping, but you need a place to work, right? Here’s a breakdown of three workplace styles — home-working, coworking and traditional office space — with pros, cons and input from startups utilzing each environment so you can figure which the right choice is for you. .&#

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Like the previous spreadsheet, FacebookFans is a Google macro based on Facebook API. The script requires your own Twitter API key (which is pretty easy to get), and provides easy-to-follow set up instructions. Latest Startups News. Pinterest: Everything You Wanted to Know About 2012′s Hottest Startup [INFOGRAPHIC].

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Robert has been working in software since 2005. I even worked on the AdWords API team as an intern at Google. Those higher costs make learning to write ads, manage campaigns, A/B test, and design landing pages a very expensive activity for an early stage, bootstrapping startup. (Powered by LaunchBit ). He is a Ph.D.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Sign in All Social Media Tech & Gadgets Business & Marketing Video Mobile Dev & Design Media Social Good Startups Classifieds Mashable Infographics Prev Next How Are People Using Twitter? The result is an infographic that dives into the educational and corporate characteristics of the typical startup founder.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. In the startup world, this itself perhaps isn’t uncommon, but what made Kohort’s story unique is the fact that those thousands of users had no idea what Kohort was when they signed up. Here are four tricks startups have used to make it happen.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

When I’m helping clients conduct these tests, I almost always find that a great way to start is by offering user-sets different login options to determine which social network APIs should be implemented. Latest Startups News. Startups Lists. World Featured in US & World Videos Featured: Facebook CES 2012 Awards. Today in Mobile.

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mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

Startup CorkboardMe Takes on Dropbox. Latest Startups News. Startups Lists. World Videos Featured: Facebook. Trending Stories. Activity From People I Follow. Latest Social Media News. Tech & Gadgets Highlights. Web Video Roundup. Today in Mobile. Dev & Design Highlights. Business & Marketing. The Social Good Brief. Like Tweet.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

If you’re a startup looking for the fabled goldmine of a Google exit, here’s the guy you’ll want to meet: David Lawee. Well, for one thing, being lucky enough to have a startup that covers a particular area of tech Google is curious about right now (and naturally keeps close to its chest). Like Tweet. or Twitter.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs what fledging tech startups should be looking for in a CTO hire to ensure founders get the right person for the job. Experience with Startups! Don’t hire someone who has never worked with a startup before, because the environment is totally different. Have an account?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

In 2005, he retired to focus on giving back, beginning by teaching technology entrepreneurship courses at Stanford, becoming a trustee at the University of Pennsylvania (which he attended undergrad), and funding cancer research with his wife. Andy and I will be having a fireside chat at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October.

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Silicon Valley Lean Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 159

allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

View all videos » api-video/find_all_videos.asp&fields=id,thumbnailURL,guid,video320kMP4Url,name,duration&count=4&doctype=128&type=allthingsd-section&query=Network+Effect. ATDstartups (Startups). © 2005-2012 Dow Jones & Company Inc. July 14, 2012 at 10:27 am PT. July 14, 2012 at 5:00 am PT. Latest Video.

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

Latest Startups News. Startups Lists. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. ©2005-2012 Mashable, Inc. Activity From People I Follow. Latest Social Media News. Tech & Gadgets Highlights. Web Video Roundup. Today in Mobile. Dev & Design Highlights. Announcements.

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allthingsd.com

AUGUST 24, 2012

View all videos » api-video/find_all_videos.asp&fields=id,thumbnailURL,guid,video320kMP4Url,name,duration&count=4&doctype=128&type=allthingsd-section&query=BoomTown. ATDstartups (Startups). © 2005-2012 Dow Jones & Company Inc. August 22, 2012 at 6:16 am PT. August 21, 2012 at 10:00 am PT. Latest Video. Liz Gannes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

And I remember we were trying to work with this local payment provider there so that people could pick up cash and things and reading their API documentation. And it became clear that we had no idea how much money was going to show up on the other side of this API. So I see people sometimes tell me, "Why are you doing this startup?"

IPO 113

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 18, 2010

Starting in 2005 with 300 attendees from a variety of backgrounds (research, academia and entrepreneurs), this past conference had 1200 attendees from large enterprises, government and a lot more startups and entrepreneurs. APIs can be used to target information, but developers have to learn a new API for each service.

Semantic 86

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. Have an account? Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited. All Rights Reserved. startupcto

Mobile 90

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mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

Latest Startups News. Startups Lists. World Featured in US & World Videos Featured: Facebook CES 2012 Awards. But you’ve got to make sure that perfect name is legally available for you to use — no one wants to be on the wrong end of a trademark dispute. Image courtesy of iStockphoto , DNY59. Print Story. Email Story. 2 followers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. And yet I keep returning to PHP as a development platform, as have most of my fellow startup CTOs. Given that startups depend on superstars to survive, why stick with PHP?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005. What Twitter certainly got right was making itself a narrowly defined platform with an open API and encouraging all of the data that flows through its system to be open. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You become so steeped in tools and techniques that have absolutely no relevance outside of.NET that you are actually less valuable to a startup than had you just taken a long nap. Two things: If you ever want to work in a startup, avoid.NET. But what they do is very, very rarely startups. It does you no favors.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Problem was, I seemed to suck at the whole startup thing. Rather, I didn’t have anyone around me familiar enough with startups to tell me that I was doing it all wrong. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Frankly, I just dont buy the notion that making an investment is akin to throwing a dart in the dark. Worse, I think its a dangerous idea to promote." I'm sensitive to the combative tone some have tried to take the conversation, which isn't an accurate reflection of what I said. startupcto

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