The Equity Kicker

MARCH 2, 2012

I’m back now from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and whilst I enjoyed playing with lots of new devices and meeting lots of interesting people, I am a little disappointed not to come away with more new investment themes or ideas to work on. As I blogged on Wednesday there is opportunity in dealing with the rapid growth in mobile malware.

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gigaom.com

JULY 10, 2012

9, 2012, 3:50pm PT. For the remainder of 2012, AT&T will give free and unlimited access to the Watson APIs to any developer paying AT&T’s $99 annual registration dues. Mobile Q4: The scramble for spectrum continues Updated: Forecast: global mobile subscribers, 2010–2015 Carrier IQ and the continued erosion of operator trust.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2018

Buterin first learned about Bitcoin from his father in 2012, and one year later proceeded to outline the white paper that first detailed the workings of the Ethereum platform. Finman began investing bitcoin in 2011 at the age of 2012, where he purchased Bitcoin with a $1,000 USD gift from his grandmother and a tip from his brother.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Data Warehousing, Database Administration, Game Development, Git, Google Maps API, HTML, HTML5, Internet Security, Javascript, jQuery / Prototype, Magento, Mobile App Testing. However, to diversify its workforce and economy, in 2015 the country adopted TizaaWorks. What are the most common skills in each category?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2016

They develop mobile apps and web design and have been gaining a lot of momentum since they were founded in 2013. Abalo Publicidad is a start-up based in Seville, Spain, that was founded in January 2015. It was founded in 2012 and since then has sold over 220 machines. Degree 53 is a software company based in Manchester city.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Fitbit was started in a previous startup era, raised about $65M in venture capital, went public in 2015, and reached heights of over a $4B market cap. 2/ Consolidating Hardware And Time – Another watch-enthusiast brand — Pebble — was unceremoniously folded into Fitbit after launching in 2012 to rabid fanfare.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In 2015 Nerdwallet.com chose it as one of the best places to start a business, as well as the #1 city for female entrepreneurs, and for good reason: It’s an affluent urban center and was ranked as one of the top 20 most productive metro areas in terms of GDP. Boulder, CO. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Earlier this year, BrandShop released the results of the 2015 Digital Consumer Preferences Survey , which revealed in no uncertain terms that consumers want (and need) buying online directly from brands to be easier. From Q2 2014 to Q2 2015, that number increased 14.1%. Mobile Capability. Well, according to the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

These days, I’m hearing more and more that Location-Based Services (LBS) are entering the mainstream for mobile users, but I’m not sure why. So far, it’s been just another mobile phone app that tells people where their friends are ( Foursquare and Facebook Glancee ).

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ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2014

On the eCommerce side, a 2012 report by invodo showed that over half of eCommerce buyers report feeling more confident in a purchase decision after watching a product video, and high quality videos can increase cart sizes by an impressive 174 %. image source. Do you have call tracking in place? ). image source.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

In 2015 Nerdwallet.com chose it as one of the best places to start a business, as well as the #1 city for female entrepreneurs, and for good reason: It’s an affluent urban center and was ranked as one of the top 20 most productive metro areas in terms of GDP. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

Conduct your research and find what works best, for example many online casinos allow customers to deposit and withdraw via their mobile phone bill using a premium rate SMS service. It made £1.5bn in 2015. Currently, credit cards are highly acceptable because they attract customers. Nonetheless do not feel limited.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Facebook’s IPO was obviously a debacle, and in the private investment sphere valuations from the seed through late stage have declined for the most part from their peaks in late 2011 through early 2012. The US government last shut down in 1995 and 1996.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

That ROI has actually increased since 2015 according to Campaign Monitor, and it’s particularly true for B2B companies. But the time it takes to put together an engaging, mobile-optimized email campaign makes it difficult to pull off for many small businesses. (Yes, About the Author.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

In 2015 Nerdwallet.com chose it as one of the best places to start a business, as well as the #1 city for female entrepreneurs, and for good reason: It’s an affluent urban center and was ranked as one of the top 20 most productive metro areas in terms of GDP. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Mobile Commerce (m-commerce). Advancements in device technologies and mobile networks are sparking the use of mobile devices by shoppers at every point on the path to purchase. 2 “Retailers Try to Adapt to Device-Hopping Shoppers”, The New York Times, December 21, 2012. 3 “Digital Democracy Survey”, Deloitte, 2015.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

I'm immensely excited about how completely mobile platforms impact our lives. I'm a lot less excited when I think about the imagination that we've brought to bear on mobile platforms and business/marketing. I'll share two examples of companies that are doing something non-normal when it comes to mobile marketing.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

Today, all you need is a mobile device, a shipping platform and a big idea. By combining virtual networks (high-speed internet, mobile communication and other digital technologies) with physical networks (transportation systems and logistics platforms), micro-multinationals have the potential to disrupt industries virtually overnight.

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Jeff Hilimire

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Dragon Army, currently a 30-person mobile and innovation company, has seen tremendous growth this year and takes most of my focus. I co-founded this organization with Adam Walker in 2015, and next year we’ll put on events in six cities, including London! Dragon Army CEO (including writing a book). Lead Atlanta Mentor.

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Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2016

A 2012 report by Technomic found that 48 percent of consumers snacked at least twice a day, a 25 percent increase since 2010. The move to mobile, especially in the food and beverage industry, has meant more options for restaurant owners looking to retain customers and increase profits. Host events.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Online platform for Asia’s tech community Tech in Asia will round off its highly vaunted Tech In Asia Conference series for this year with Tech In Asia Jakarta 2015 , which will take place on 11 and 12 November 2015 at Balai Kartini.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Some examples: AI will be the new mobile. Voyager Labs (2012) – cognitive computing for understanding human behaviour. Beyond Verbal (2012) – understands people’s moods, attitudes and emotional characteristics (also known as personality) from their raw vocal intonations in real-time, as they speak.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. You may look at this and think to yourself “well, of course, how controversial is those?

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

Employment lags economic output and is an admittedly imperfect indicator, but if you continue the analogy, it may be that the next 4-5 year boom cycle lasts until 2015! Facebook will likely go public in 2012 and be valued in the $50-75 billion range. This IPO and others like it (e.g., The point here isn’t to be Pollyannaish.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2020

Founded in 2015 by Ariel Rosenfeld. Founded in 2014 by Ronen Yehoshua. $12M, 19 February 2018 Optibus – A high-tech mobility platform improving mass transportation in cities. Founded in 2012 by Lior Akavia. The company has new meat cultivation technology enabling growing real beef steaks directly from the cells.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 3, 2012

We like to believe that all there is to digital marketing is to do some search engine optimization, send out an email blast every once in a while, get our agency to create a flash-heavy "brand experience" website, or slap together a mobile app in the corporate-approved shade of eggshell white. It is also your mobile app.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

Incepted in 2012, Alignable’s platform hit the market in 2014, and since then, we’ve seen hundreds of thousands of business owners in North America join. In our case, Alignable members can decide to ask questions publicly or privately in groups and can post from their computer or their mobile if they’re on-the-go.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2017

Amelia Showalter of Pantheon Analytics , who led digital analytics for Obama’s 2012 campaign, agrees… Amelia Showalter , Pantheon Analytics: “Eventually the novelty wore off, and we had to go back and retest.” (via Here’s an example from the 2012 Obama campaign… Image Source. via Bloomberg). via MailChimp).

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2015, Eddy Lu and Daishin Sugano launched GOAT , a marketplace for the exchange of sneakers. Popular categories include web developers, mobile developers, designers, writers, and accountants. Swing Education was founded in 2015 with the objective of creating a marketplace for substitute teachers.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For much of 2014 and 2015, I banged my head against a plane window flying back and forth between Austin and Silicon Valley while trying to raise institutional VC money for Localeur. I never did find a VC to lead a round of funding for Localeur, but two things happened by the end of 2015. There are many like it, but this is mine.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x Every VC who’s been the business for a long time realized first hand that the VC markets were changing rapidly as early as Q3 of 2015. 2015 turned to 2016. Fall turned to winter.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

You’ll often go down the sourcing rabbit hole only to discover that a statistic is from 2012 or that the study’s sample size consisted of just a few people—and that’s only after you make an effort to dig deeper. People did check their email right after waking up…in 2012. . Use click-baity headlines.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Well, according to the 2015 Affiliate Marketing Benchmark Report … 60.97% of affiliates live in the U.S. 2012 was runner-up with just 10.96%, indicating rapid growth in the industry in recent years. Mobile App. However, affiliate networks will expect a commission from you as well, which cuts into your profit margin.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 30, 2015

As we turn the page to 2015, Uber has a new BHAG, and it’s name is UberPool. When Uber launched its low-cost UberX offering in the summer of 2012, the company quickly realized that the demand for its transportation services is HIGHLY elastic. A Quick Look Back. Learning From UberX Price Cuts. Jeff Bezos.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2012 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2013; Slack in 2014 (after prematurely saying there wasn’t one); took a break in 2015-16, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; in 2017 it was Coinbase ; and last year, 2018, it was Airtable.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

A photo posted by CEO Blog Nation : I am CEO (@ceoblognation) on Aug 18, 2015 at 2:23pm PDT. #1) When I sold the company in 2012 to HelloWorld, I spent a lot of time writing thank you notes. We make it easy for renters to quickly find, price and purchase renters insurance online and on their mobile devices. 1) Solve a Problem.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 3, 2012

Below are the headlines for January 2012: ESTIMATES SHOW ISRAELI GDP ROSE 4.8% a Cambridge company that manages Web traffic for some of the Internet’s biggest sites, is acquiring website and mobile acceleration technology vendor Cotendo. Construction of the first phase of campus is scheduled to begin in 2015.

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