Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

From 2003 to 2008, I was the host/DJ/producer of The Groove Boutique, a radio mix show that aired across the United States. Thanks to Rafe Gomez, Vertical Cloud Inc. ! #4- I had a wide portfolio of hard-working friends from engineering school and previous places I worked that I picked from. Thanks to Laurence J. and many others.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Ed Baker of Friend.ly , a fun way to meet new people, is focused on driving innovation: Encourage more product suggestions from our engineering team. Our engineers often come up with great ideas, and they are the most productive when they work on these ideas. We will measure our traction in three ways: 1.

Stealth 60

Stealth Startup Lean Cofounder 60

Version One Ventures

APRIL 23, 2013

Speaking from personal experience, this was the driving force behind our decision to sell AbeBooks (a marketplace for used, rare, and hard-to-find books) to Amazon back in 2008. However, I think the most compelling reason to sell is when the founders run out of ideas for how to grow the company further.

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Vertical Non-Compete Asia Europe 130

ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2014

Back in 2008, researcher Harald Weinreich & Jakob Nielson published a study that measured 45,237 page views from 25 different users, and found that – of the people being analyzed – most people would scroll about halfway down the page for longer content and only spent enough time on the page to read less than 20% of the text.

Conversion 133

Conversion Georgia Technical Review Design 133

ReadWriteStart

MAY 6, 2011

An incubatee with Indian Angel Network, Anirudh Motwani from New Delhi, India, discussed IndiaCollegeSearch , a vertical search engine to address the problem of finding detailed information about various colleges and institutions in India. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. IndiaCollegeSearch. Discuss.

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India Vertical Entrepreneur Connecticut 115

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

-Real-time search engine. Founded in November 2008 by Jack Moffitt and Patrick Mahoney; CEO is Gerry Campbell (ex-AOL, ex-Reuters/OpenCalais). Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. Potential competitors: Gilt Groupe , ShoeDazzle.

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! There are four reasons, again from Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, from 2008 (!): With that, let's look at the first rich source of benchmarking data in CI tools, the industry and sub-vertical reports.

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Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

Edward Varghese from New Delhi, India, pitched i-Globify , an outsourcing service catering to the niche travel vertical, focusing on building Web 3.0 I liked his approach to building an outsourcing solution: focusing on a niche and building in-depth skills and credibility within that vertical. Discuss.

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India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Vertical 116

ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is seeing excellent results. In February, he had about 200 customers.

San Francisco 125

San Francisco Entrepreneur Silicon Valley India 125

www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Read more » Recent Press The New York Times April 22, 2009 - A Company Plans to Market Illiquid Assets CNBC.com April 8, 2008 - Social Stock Picking Reuters April 6, 2009 - Bit.ly And if this business partnership doesn't work out, the CTO / Founder, the engine of value for the company, is stuck in a bad, bad place.

CTO Hire 40

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2016

2008-2009 was a terrible time to raise money. In crowded verticals, a lot of investors will simply sit on the sidelines and avoid making investments, which limits the number of investors who are writing checks in these spaces. Some verticals will be difficult to get revenue traction in. You’re not unique.)

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Some vertical ad networks have gone after this opportunity, Glam Media being one of the most successful of the lot. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It's just not worth it.

Greece 116

Greece Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley 116

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Qualitas is trying to close various gaps related to imaging in the industrial automation space, and has use cases in a variety of areas from bottling to labeling, and across verticals such as automotive to pharmaceuticals. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008.

Startup 113

Startup India Silicon Valley Incubator 113

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Today the vodka business is massive, with global consumption in 2008 logging in at over 512 million cases! The steam engine (70 AD). The Zoetrope is a turntable device that creates the illusion of motion through a series of drawings on the inside of the cylinder which are viewed through vertical slits.

Poland 68

Poland New York City Russia Flash 68

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

I have a question though- do you think that most content metrics (the ebook example you mentioned) should be developed by the "author" to target their specific data, or do you think there are opportunities for a new business vertical that give these tools directly to the creator. August 24, 2009 2:17 PM Norbert Mocsnik said.

San Francisco 113

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

It’s the second largest search engine in the world, and content from their platform reaches more 18–49 year-olds than any broadcast or cable TV network. The plan targets data scientists and video engineers. Wistia has been around since 2008. YouTube shines when it comes to brand awareness. Adapt video sizes.

Hosting 127

Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. With the launch of Airbnb in 2008 and Uber (*) in 2009, these two companies established a new category of marketplaces known as the “sharing economy.” SHARING ECONOMY MARKETPLACES.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

sixrevisions.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Vertical Bar/Sidebar Navigation. Vertical bar/sidebar navigation is when navigation items are arranged in a single column, one on top of another. The vertical bar/sidebar navigation design pattern is seen all over the place, on virtually every kind of website. Common Characteristics of Vertical Bar/Sidebar Navigation.

Design 83

Design Vertical Architecture Search 83

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Imagine you hear from an engineer that they are worried that a certain payment subsystem is unreliable, and will therefore double-charge some customers. To a lot of smart engineers, that sounds crazy. To a lot of smart engineers, that sounds crazy. In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

So, in 2008, I began selling new and refurbished servers and storage lines, which quickly became advantageous to those small-and medium-sized businesses who needed to save money during the cash-strapped days of the recession and chose upgrading their systems versus buying new. And this was at a prestigious engineering school.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The pace of SaaS company creation in Europe is growing even faster, up from 200 companies in 2008-10 to 670 in 2014-16. Europe and India are growing particularly quickly, and investment more than doubled from 2015, while the US is up 20%. Our investments in the space have followed suit. We’ve invested $2.3B in SaaS companies globally.

Europe 83

Europe Cloud API 83

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. If you’ve read this far, you definitely should : Try out our Funding Recommendation Engine. Think of it as 7 bonus post-mortems on the house.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

We spent considerable time exploring ways to verticalize the app and creating an ad-supported business model instead, which would also broaden his exit options considerably. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. The challenges of bootstrapping a venture that is dependent on ad-revenue is, however, also quite significant.

Silicon Valley 105

Silicon Valley Columbus Ohio Incubator 105

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? It’s like arguing against vertical software. How about ABAPer?

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Way back in 2008, an obscure SaaS company called Zuora started talking—loudly and endlessly—about the “ subscription economy. Most niche industries have some form of representation on these channels, like: This subreddit for commercial audio-visual engineers. Create movement-first content to build credibility.

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B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

I love landscapes as they help organise the categories needed to define the vertical. From my vantage point, today’s negative financial sentiment most closely resembles 2008. A trend report published by Newzoo on June 28 2022 , features the startup landscape of metaverse, NFTs, pay-to-earn, and blockchain gaming.

Cloud 200

Cloud Venture Capital Cofounder Non-Compete 200

David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Pre-seed startups (all vertical) are welcome to register to world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, the Founder Institute Final Admissions Deadline: October 04. I’m just highlighting here a few companies who have made recruiting Arab engineers a focus. INVESTMENT ORGANIZATIONS FOCUSED ON THE ISRAEL-MENA AXIS. Apply here.

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UAE United Arab Emirates Technology 60