Venture Chronicles

MAY 5, 2010

Last week I had the opportunity to attend GigaOM’s GreenNet 2010 event, which was looking at how energy solutions are powering a new wave of innovation in Silicon Valley. I was pleased to see that Katie had focused a good amount of the agenda and speaker slots for talks given by regulators and public utility officials.

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Technical Review California San Francisco Silicon Valley 36

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

A bout 50,000 visitors from 200 countries are expected to attend the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, starting tomorrow February 15th. VC Cafe's own little 'cloud' for MWC 2010, taken from the Israeli IMA brochure. The IMA expects the companies to have more than 4,000 meetings during the conference.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Should we make the API available to developers? Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of software developers is projected to grow 30 percent from 2010 to 2020 , far eclipsing the 14 percent average growth for all occupations. Do we go with HTML5 or Flash? Is this whole “iPad” thing going anywhere? Acquiring top talent.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 26, 2018

It explains, in detail, how easy it was for any developer to get massive amounts of data from the Facebook Graph API between 2010 and 2015 (where Ben suggests that Facebook was willing to give everything away.) .” For a more balanced, but equally intense view, Ben Thompson at Stratechery has a long post titled The Facebook Brand.

Social Network 122

Social Network Government API Europe 122

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Reply Marco , on October 7, 2010 at 1:38 pm Said: Hi Steve, thanks for the awesome post, but, what was question #4? Reply Building a Company with Customer Data – Why Metrics Are Not Enough « Steve Blank , on December 17, 2009 at 6:01 am Said: [.] Keep teaching! Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

View more jobs » View Comments Ryan Rosado Wednesday 27, 2010 @ 1:14 am This is wonderful resource/nugget for budding entrepreneurs (as myself). Ryan Rosado Wednesday 27, 2010 @ 1:14 am This is wonderful resource/nugget for budding entrepreneurs (as myself). link] [link] Will Wednesday 27, 2010 @ 2:19 am Hmm. STOKED!!!!

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Social Media Technical Review Social Network 94

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Find out about the API and technical specifications. If you’re not a developer, make sure you ask your technical crew to evaluate the providers’ APIs. Will the API be easy for our developers to integrate with? Will the API be easy for our developers to integrate with? To what extent is the API under active development?

Small Business 94

Small Business API Chicago Dividend 94

Guy Nirpaz

MAY 29, 2010

Guy Nirpaz Blog Thoughts from my startup journey Salesforce API and Axis2 Here’s a useful tip for Java developers integrating with the SalesForce API. To read the explanation, just have a look here Tags: api , axis2 , salesforce This entry was posted on Sunday, May 30th, 2010 at 3:35 am and is filed under Uncategorized.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

In addition, third-party services and API’s enabled us to do more with less, but at a cost: taking on the technical debt of products and teams outside our direct control. I'm not sure that it makes sense to consider, say, PayPal's subpar API, as technical debt. July 29, 2009 6:57 AM Heiner Wolf said.

Technical Review 168

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so. So … November 2010 and Facebook has 500 million users. Facebook Will Not be the Only Dominant Player.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

The Top 20 VC Power Bloggers Of 2010 – [link]. Interesting foursquare infographic on check-ins in 2010 – [link]. Google’s Elemental API Periodic Table – [link]. Best Practices and Tips for Restaurant Web Design – [link]. Finding Cash for Your Start Up – Part 1 – [link].

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Home Social Media Business Entertainment Tech Web Video Dev & Design Apple Mobile Social Good Jobs Web Design Web Development Now Trending : Sony Retires the Cassette Walkman After 30 Years September 28, 2010 Jolie ODell View Comments 11 Trends in Web Logo Design: The Good, the Bad and the Overused email share email share Do you like this story?

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Home Social Media Business Entertainment Tech Web Video Dev & Design Apple Mobile Social Good Jobs Web Design Web Development Now Trending : Sony Retires the Cassette Walkman After 30 Years September 28, 2010 Jolie ODell View Comments 11 Trends in Web Logo Design: The Good, the Bad and the Overused email share email share Do you like this story?

Web 111

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Now that we’re nearing the home stretch of 2010, it’s a good time to take stock of various odds and ends for your business. Submissions once a day till Nov 26, 2010 per category Top 5 per category will advance to finalists round Good luck to everyone! View More » Dev & Design 5 Innovative Uses of an API [Mashable.

LLC 75

LLC Social Media Startup Philadelphia 75

mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Now that we’re nearing the home stretch of 2010, it’s a good time to take stock of various odds and ends for your business. Submissions once a day till Nov 26, 2010 per category Top 5 per category will advance to finalists round Good luck to everyone! View More » Dev & Design 5 Innovative Uses of an API [Mashable.

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LLC Ruby Social Media Startup 75

readwrite.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

In exchange for potentially alienating some users, developers building for Chrome can more aggressively leverage HTML5 APIs and save valuable development and testing time. If “RIA” (Rich Internet Applications) was the buzzword in 2010, “SPA” will be the buzzword in 2013. IE10 Euphoria - And Pain. HTML Gets Naked (Again).

HTML 90

HTML Mobile API Cloud 90

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Submissions once a day till Nov 26, 2010 per category Top 5 per category will advance to finalists round Good luck to everyone! View More » Dev & Design 5 Innovative Uses of an API [Mashable. More About Mashable » Mobile Version News Submit News About Us Advertise Contact Us Privacy Policy © 2010 Mashable.

Angel Investor 84

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Submissions once a day till Nov 26, 2010 per category Top 5 per category will advance to finalists round Good luck to everyone! View More » Dev & Design 5 Innovative Uses of an API [Mashable. More About Mashable » Mobile Version News Submit News About Us Advertise Contact Us Privacy Policy © 2010 Mashable.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Toss in a bunch of networking, lots of stimulating discussion, and breakouts that cover everything from APIs to shifting to the Cloud to Social Media Analytics to the Social Customer and it’s shaping up to be dynamite. JP Rangaswami on Information as seen through the eyes of a Foodie. And that’s just some of the keynotes.

Colorado 124

Colorado API Analytics Social Network 124

ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2020

Kaggle launched in 2010. This processing power is useful if you have a lengthy computation or expect a high volume of data to be returned after an API call. This post focuses on these and other marketing-friendly use cases for Kaggle. What is Kaggle? It became known as a platform for hosting machine-learning competitions.

Analytics 94

Analytics Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review 94

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 6, 2019

If you hung around me during the 2007 – 2010 time period when I was on the Zynga board, you would have heard me talk with amazement at how easy it was to manipulate people into spending huge amounts of their time tending their virtual farm on FarmVille. All of this happened a decade ago.

API 136

API Partner Leadership Business Model 136

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Here at WePay, 2014 was a big year for us as well — we pivoted fully into our API business, introduced the industry’s first risk API, launched the first white label payments product with complete protection from fraud, and more than doubled our revenue. A lot happened! No big deal, right?

IPO 236

IPO API Silicon Valley Mobile 236

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

A given customer would have an entity URL that looked like this: customer://1234 Somewhere in your API, you have a way to access data about a given customer. Whichever API you use, URL-based sharding is very easy to understand. The better your internal APIs and data architecture, the easier this step will be.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Nairobi, the capital of Nigeria, is often pointed out as the birth place of the so-called Silicon Savanah which gave the rise to the Africa’s tech scene between 2007 and 2010. Commenced in July 2017, The Youth Enterprise Development Fund provides start-up loans to help young entrepreneurs fund their businesses at a very early stage.

Africa 75

Africa Benin Seychelles Nigeria 75

Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2011

Integrate with other services (and allow them to integrate with you) in reliable, predictable ways – usually via what we know in computer science lingo as an API, or application program interface. Introduce new services. Note in the first item the word “continuously.&# How about it Austin? Are we distinguished by our mobile platforms?

Mobile 75

Mobile Differentiation Technical Review New York City 75

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

When it comes to the most famous company that got away, Groupon — which was offered and turned down $6 billion in 2010, and recently fell below that market cap — Lawee refuses to speculate about whether it would have fared better inside the Googleplex.). company Slide.com in August 2010 for $182 million. On2 Technologies.

San Francisco 104

San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Reply Mike Byrnes , on April 28, 2010 at 9:17 am said: Steve: I just found your site and blog from a link off Venture Hacks “Two great talks from SLLConf&# I fell like I’ve just found the mother lode! Thanks Phil Gainley Reply Margit Niemelä , on August 16, 2010 at 6:29 am said: Steve, wonderful job! Thanks a million.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Kik Music raised a $1 million seed funding round in January 2010, roughly a year after Livingston had first embarked on the project. The Kik Chat app launched in April 2010 for iOS and BlackBerry initially. So in October 2010, Kik launched the second version of its messaging app — and the company’s future changed almost instantly.

Entrepreneur 167

Entrepreneur CTO Hire Startup Mobile 167

Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 2, 2013

If we did anything egregiously wrong at Get Satisfaction in the 2010-1012 time period it was to under-invest in the product with the assumption that the existing product was good enough. Ultimately you need to achieve best in class but if you try to achieve that in the first iteration you will be hopelessly late.

Product 62

Product CTO Hire Architecture Startup 62

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 29, 2010

I actually put together a blog post on other techniques that provide valuable information during the interview process: [link] Posted on 29 October 2010 | 11:39 pm Sponsored by Why AppUp? A Quick Review of the AppUp Model From the AppUp Developer Program Blog My First QML App From AdobeMAX Intel AppUp Developer Program at AdobeMAX 2010!

Technical Review 46

Technical Review Java AJAX PHP 46

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

October 3rd, 2010 the Chubby Team 48 Comments. 48 Responses to “25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time” Technology By Day » 25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time | ChubbyBrain Blog says: October 4, 2010 at. [.] Quora says: October 4, 2010 at. says: October 4, 2010 at. Company: Go.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Some great free resources listed this month that I thought were interesting.

Technology 191

Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Submissions once a day till Nov 26, 2010 per category Top 5 per category will advance to finalists round Good luck to everyone! View More » Dev & Design 5 Innovative Uses of an API [Mashable. More About Mashable » Mobile Version News Submit News About Us Advertise Contact Us Privacy Policy © 2010 Mashable.

Coder 60

Coder Technical Review Social Media Technical Cofounder 60

www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

This entry was written by James Governor and posted on September 3, 2010 at 3:06 pm and filed under Java. » 36 Tweets 39 Comments SteveL Posted September 3, 2010 at 3:18 pm | Permalink Classic enterprise java “EJB&# is dead; nobody misses it. Java has plenty of runway left and plenty of room for innovation.

Java 43

Java Demand Web Framework 43

www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

This entry was written by James Governor and posted on September 3, 2010 at 3:06 pm and filed under Java. » 36 Tweets 39 Comments SteveL Posted September 3, 2010 at 3:18 pm | Permalink Classic enterprise java “EJB&# is dead; nobody misses it. Java has plenty of runway left and plenty of room for innovation.

Java 43

Java Demand Web Framework 43

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Founder Kevin Systrom launched Instagram with 25,000 beta users on October 6, 2010; two years later, the app continues to see massive growth, recently reporting 150 million active users. Systrom, now a multi-millionaire after selling his company to Facebook for one billion dollars, turns 30 next month.

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Cost San Francisco New York City Ruby 168