ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

As Pebble evolves from a startup to a legitimate competitor against the likes of Apple or Sony, much of their success will hinge on how attentive the founders are to their enthusiastic early adopters. Fabulis.com was initially intended to to be a social network for gay men. From the looks of it, they’re going to do great.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

Buddy Media builds, promotes and monetizes one of the largest networks of engaging and entertaining social media applications on the web. The company reaches more than 8 million internet users each month through some of the top applications on Facebook and other social networks. 8/31/2010 – Same thing.

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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. As a non-technical founder of an IT company, it’s important to know when to dish responsibilities off. Was debating between two candidates.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

June 5, 2011. Even for those who don’t care to dive into the numbers, it’s worth a quick glance because co-founder/CEO Andrew Mason wrote a letter which forms the preamble of the full document. Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011. Run Rate Revenue: $2.6B (Q1 2011 annualized). Groupon, Inc.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M. Taariq Lewis, the founder of Voluble, is a 1M/1M premium entrepreneur. The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. EFactor The authors of business networking book The N Factor venture up the alphabet a little bit to bring you the EFactor.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2012

The idea for Burpple came about in late 2010 in Silicon Valley, but co-founders Elisha Ong and Dixon Chan would only incorporate the company in Singapore end 2011. Fellow co-founder Dixon Chan believes that the application taps on existing consumer habit of taking a picture of their meal before digging in. Burping An Idea.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2012

The idea for Burpple came about in late 2010 in Silicon Valley, but co-founders Elisha Ong and Dixon Chan would only incorporate the company in Singapore end 2011. Fellow co-founder Dixon Chan believes that the application taps on existing consumer habit of taking a picture of their meal before digging in. Burping An Idea.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. billion today as a public company (it went public in 2011). But I digress?—?this and I bet he’ll be back. It is worth $3.4 or break?—?the

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 19, 2012

The founders of local startup company PayWhere believes there’s an opportunity in this gap, and that’s why they’re introducing TackThis. “Social commerce is rapidly becoming the preferred way to do business online,” says Dickson Gregory, CEO and co-founder PayWhere.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Next on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere : Nayeem Hussain , co-founder and CEO of Keen Home ; and Will Zell , co-founder and CEO of Nikola Labs.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 31, 2014

Yoav Vilner is the CEO and co-founder of Ranky.co , a growth hacking and online marketing team. Fast forward to 2011. 25 percent – Links from social networks and content sharing platforms. If you are one of TNW’s many readers, there’s a good chance you might be a product owner, creator, or the marketer of one.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2013

by MaryAnn Bekkedahl, co-founder and president of theSwizzle. To give you an example of that noise, brands, social networks and other organizations sent a record number of marketing messages in 2012, up 19% on 2011. MaryAnn Bekkedahl is co-founder & president of theSwizzle and an expert in email organization.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. (If VC’s went back to basics, to focus on building companies while their founders worked on building customers. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014.

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. I want to reflect on my experience as a non-technical founder and reassess my original decision – almost two years ago – to stick to what I’m good at, and not waste time learning to code. 2011 Holiday. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Billion View Comments Celebs to Go Silent on Twitter and Facebook for Charity View Comments top stories the last 7 days Social Media Help Us Spread the Word About the Wor. MapQuest Founder on the Past, Present. View More » Social Good Google Gives $250,000 to Tech Educati. 5 Creative Social Good Campaigns for.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Recruiting and Hiring Employees > How to Attract Talent to Your Start-Up At a start-up, you need employees that are in it for the long haul and fit your unique culture. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc.

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

Marco Gomes is the founder of social media advertising company Boo-box , which reaches 60 million people in Brazil monthly with ads from clients like Google, Unilever, Volkswagen and Microsoft. TNW: Beyond Brazil you expanded into Argentina in 2011. How has your expansion strategy developed?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2011

It’s been a rough time for the founders of Singapore-based, mobile location-based check-in service foound. We asked Found ‘s founder Danny Tan what’s new with Found. We believe Found is closest to being the next generation social network that can help solve these problems. So what went wrong?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

So resume + directionally-correct social graph = goldmine for recruiting, networking and marketing. It doesn’t strike me as a “social network&# in the way we’ve come to define them. But its focus on solving a real-world problem makes it uniquely valuable to most other social graphs.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Monday, September 26, 2011. RCSMs premise is that they can reach an investment decision (and valuation) based on an application completed by the founders and take gut feel out of the decision process. September 27, 2011 5:09 PM. September 27, 2011 5:51 PM. ▼ 2011. (7). ProfessorVC. Thanks Steve. Steve Bennet.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world. Instead of investors holding onto proprietary connections and introductions for their portfolio companies, these relationships are being displaced by the dominate social networks ( Facebook , Linkedin , Quora ). spray-and-pray?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The founders sold the two year old company to eBay in 2005 for $2.6 In 2011, Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 Just 18 months after this photo sharing program and social network was launched, Facebook offered to purchase Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. Unique social networking product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2011

I just read the Q1 2011 report from CB Insights , which shows venture capital is back. They want founders who have been there and done that before, in the same business domain. Get introduced via one of the social networks, or a professional organization, before you approach a VC with a business proposal.

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

World Featured in US & World Featured: Facebook Year End 2011 Awards. Facebook 2012: What the Future Holds for the Social Media Powerhouse. 6 Important Startup Trends that Defined 2011. December 28, 2011 by Sarah Kessler. These six trends in particular stood out to us in 2011. Trending Stories. dog products ?

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. In 2011, Yale launched Yale-NUS, a sister university based in Singapore. Founder community. Tsai CITY could sponsor an online community of aspiring tech founders within the university so that they could learn from and support each other.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2012

Sergey Brin is a co-founder of Google and one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world. Who would have guessed that a young brainiac from Harvard would create the biggest and most successful social network in the world? The incredibly popular social network now has more than 845 million active users.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 26, 2023

10- The Founder Photo Credit: Steve Ramos This movie taught me many things I constantly like to remind myself daily. 24- Limitless Photo credit: Deniz Efe The 2011 movie Limitless is a great way to get motivated. One of the lines in the movie that I have applied in my life since I watched it is “Don’t chase success.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

Thursday, January 27, 2011. The formula will be based on the founders experience, schools they attended and other background information to gauge the likelihood of success. May 1, 2011 10:32 PM. June 28, 2011 3:41 PM. ▼ 2011. (7). ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. How Much Diligence is Due.Or

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Who Uses a Consulting CTO I’m going to focus on the needs of the founders of startup companies: Founders of startups use a consulting CTO when they have business vision but limited knowledge of the technology needed to launch their company. Increasingly, people who were only available as full-time, equity-position founders or [.]

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Jeremy Goldman is the founder of Firebrand Group and the author of the book GoingSocial. Part of my job as a digital and social media strategist is following expert predictions, in order to better help my clients at Firebrand Group innovate. Telling people that they need a mobile strategy was useful in 2010 or 2011.

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Media Social Media Cofounder Caching 154

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 12, 2016

Kishore was the CEO of Pari Networks recently, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2011. Currently Kishore is Founder at Nuviso Networks and Infore. Kishore Kumar is a serial entrepreneur focusing on applications, cloud, mobile health, analytics and virtualization markets.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Bump.com is a social network based on license plate numbers as the identifier. ► 2011. (7). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Bump - These guys got my vote for the Peoples Choice. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Twitter Updates. Blog Archive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: The number of Baby Boomers starting a business from 1996 to 2011 rose nearly 7 percent, while the start-up rate by those aged 20 to 44 fell about 5 percent. These trends seem likely to persist.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

We also had Pritam Roy present Gomolo.in , a social network and online hangout for movie lovers. It would also help him figure out the audience engagement model of how to make the social network compelling. Fragrochem. Last up during the first roundtable session was Chetan Thakkar pitching Fragrochem.

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Ben's Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

This is a guest post by Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz. Over the last two years, Jason and his team have brilliantly executed a dramatic transformation of the company and today Ning hosts over 100,000 social networks covering every conceivable topic and interest, from 50 Cent to Sarah Palin and beyond.

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grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If you’re waiting for a technical co-founder to put up a landing page with signup form, you’re lazy. Show Metrics If you ask me to be a co-founder or even just a consultant, you’re essentially asking me to invest in your company with my time. I just need a co-founder to web enable it!"

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