Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. What They Do: Travel search engine. Mobile Usage: 8% of 2010 query volume (mobile app download growth of 344% YoY). Headquarters: Norwalk, CT & Concord, MA.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012. Ryan was not only a senior engineer at Salesforce.com (he ran mobile and also ran content management) but was also my cofounder at Koral and lead architect at BuildOnline. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO.

Video 320

Video Los Angeles Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 320

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2012

Founded by interaction designer Brad Damphousse and software engineer Andrew Ballester, GoFundMe was first conceptualized back in 2008 when both were driven by personal tragedies that led to want to use their talents for good. The site lets users manage their campaigns, thank donors and even communicate with supporters.

San Diego 176

San Diego Colorado Software Engineering Bootstrapping 176

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

CEO Brian Chesky Says Airbnb Will Be Filling More Room Nights Than All Hilton Hotels By The End Of 2012 – [link]. The Era Of Easy Riches In Mobile Apps Is Over | ReadWrite – [link]. Six Social Media Trends for 2012 David Armano |Harvard Business Review – [link]. Best Free Fonts of 2012 – [link].

Social Media 100

Social Media Small Business Design Media 100

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

They’re used to using the web and increasingly the mobile web for everything, commerce, communication, games, etc. They also probably haven’t seen a phone that isn’t mobile.) By the end of 2012, there were 85 million iOS and 160 million Android devices in China. Instead of email, they’ve grown up with QQ instant messages.

China 323

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 323

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The monetization engine of the Internet that powers the most profitable business perhaps in history was invented and perfected in Los Angeles and is what you now know as Google Ad Words. Around $400 billion of imports & exports pass through the LA ports each year, which set the national high-water mark in 2012. ”).

Los Angeles 376

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Seattle 376

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 15, 2012

It takes little money – comparatively – to try a new advertising medium, or improve your website, or build a mobile app, or try just about anything else. That also applies to the consumer Search behavior (#4 below) which includes all search engines and not just Google. and mobile intent to purchase (I love this data).

Global 136

Global Czech Republic Russia Norway 136

Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As I write this, days after the 2012 presidential election, I’m probably not alone in feeling relieved that the political jeering and soapboxing that reached a feverish pitch during the seemingly endless campaign season has finally subsided. misses an opportunity. Securities Regulation. Intellectual Property.

Silicon Valley 187

Silicon Valley San Francisco Intellectual Property Accredited Investor 187

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Facebook Has Some Tips | Search Engine Land - [link]. Top 50 Photoshop Tutorials from 2012 | Speckyboy – [link]. The Absolute Best Fonts of 2012 | Creative Beacon – [link]. Round Up of Free Fonts of 2012 | Sharing Mantra – [link]. 10 Best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials 2012 – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

oDesk claims that it dominates the market of online freelance marketplaces with $360 million spent by its clients in 2012; this number for the five closest competitors combined – Elance, Freelancer, Guru, People Per Hour, and 99Designs – reaches only $310 million. According to the last stats provided by oDesk itself, the company has 4.5

Russia 151

Russia Ukraine Latvia Lithuania 151

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

Multi-channel attribution was the flavor of the month for every month in 2012. And just as in 2012 magic pills will be scarce, FUD will be plentiful, and vendors will promise the moon. Mobile Devices Report. Mobile is all the rage. You'll find the report in Audience > Mobile > Devices. Very handy.

Analytics 159

Analytics Search Campaign eCommerce 159

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 27, 2013

Last week, Eric sat down with developer Dan Milstein --one of the most popular speakers from the 2012 Lean Startup Conference --for a webcast conversation on getting engineers into the Lean Startup cycle. The question then becomes: What can engineers, and everyone else at a startup, do to reduce that uncertainty?

Lean 166

Lean Engineer Startup Mobile 166

techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

He covers startups, music, social, mobile, health, and education. Disrupt SF 2012. Disrupt SF Hackathon 2012. Project Manager Dice Holdings Software Engineer, Python, YouTube Google/YouTube Web Developer Yelp Inc. ’ Watch Kids Grill Tech Leaders In Code Club Video. © 2012 AOL Inc. Enterprise.

Equity 94

Equity San Francisco Startup Silicon Valley 94

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

million citizens have active mobile contracts, with the de facto standard for modern handsets supplying more than enough computational grunt to run an interactive, audio-based literacy classroom on-the-go. The application of mobile devices to learning literacy is not particularly new. mobile subscriptions.

Mobile 150

Mobile Afghanistan Singapore Audio 150

www.clickz.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

Search Engine Watch. Media Planning Media Buying Publishing Display Advertising Video Mobile. Heidi Cohen | December 24, 2012. Editors note: This column was originally published on August 20, 2012, and was the seventh most popular column of the year on ClickZ in 2012. 2012 was a key year in Digital Marketing.

Social Media 86

Social Media Media B2C New York 86

Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. During that time, we watched the first wave of mobile apps take off — Foursquare, GroupOn, Instagram, Twitter, etc. PPPS, we’re also hiring a blockchain engineer. We were infatuated with tech.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Austin 48

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The second category is composed of companies that have developed a unique IP locally and marketed it worldwide - typically in the gaming, software, security or mobile sectors. mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs. mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs. in GE, 1.3 in Brazil and 0.8 in GE, 1.3

Czech Republic 99

Czech Republic Russia San Jose Europe 99

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

They’re used to using the web and increasingly the mobile web for everything, commerce, communication, games, etc. They also probably haven’t seen a phone that isn’t mobile.) By the end of 2012, there were 85 million iOS and 160 million Android devices in China. Instead of email, they’ve grown up with QQ instant messages.

China 215

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators. The king is dead, long live the king.

Romania 77

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 77

siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Search for: July 3rd, 2012. 3 Responses to “Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors” Darrin says: July 8, 2012 at 11:59 am. Nick Wade says: July 10, 2012 at 11:25 pm. 7 great articles about mentoring startups… « Ercan Yilmaz says: October 2, 2012 at 9:07 am. [.]

Portland 46

Portland Oregon Technical Cofounder Startup 46

www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Mobile News. July 9, 2012 at 10:21 am by John Cook Leave a Comment. But Seattle entrepreneur Aaron Roberts, a former engineer… Read More. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. Front-end UI Software Engineer. Manager, Test Engineering (Performance Team). Posts Comments Startups.

Venture Capital 42

Venture Capital Seattle Cofounder Software Engineering 42

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Thursday, August 9th, 2012. These investments include Kaggle, a startup that compels engineers to compete against each other in order to solve “hard problems,” and Continuuity, Parse, Pushd and Citus Data. « previous story Following App.net’s Reboot, Smore Introduces App Flyers For DIY Mobile App Marketing.

Early Stage 70

Early Stage San Francisco Los Angeles Southern California 70

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Flightwise/ MyRadar Mobile Apps – [link]. Marc Andreessen: Predictions for 2012 (and beyond) – [link]. The State of Social Marketing 2011 – 2012 – [link]. Mobile Users Split on Check-In Services – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. As a result, the people doing initial resume filtering are not engineers. Number of errors.

CTO Hire 98

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 98

Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

When we established Ready4S back in 2012, the tech startup scene looked completely different than it does today. Thomas is a software engineer at an app development agency and a fan of everything IT, mobile and tech-related. He is also interested in digital marketing and tech startups.

Startup 115

Startup Estonia Poland Silicon Valley 115

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 30, 2014

What names come to mind when you think about online search engines? Lyft, a privately held, San Franciso-based transportation network company that was founded in 2012, recently released a video that explains how their peer-to-peer ridesharing mobile phone app works. Dash, a startup company founded in 2012.

Video 77

Video Widget Software Review Entrepreneur 77

searchengineland.com

MAY 30, 2012

Mobile Search. More Search Engines. May 30, 2012 at 1:06pm ET by Conrad Saam. The engineer who can get this question is surprisingly rare, but amazingly valuable. Opinions expressed in the article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. SearchCap Daily Newsletter. All Columns.

SEO 54

SEO SEM Social Media Search 54

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2012

Be it from being more engaged and active in the social media landscape, especially on Google+ to focusing a larger effort on mobile and local marketing, there are many ways small businesses can increase their overall digital marketing and SEO strategies with little or no additional cost. Get Social, Especially On Google+.

SEO 168

SEO Small Business Marketing Social Media 168

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 15, 2014

The Future of Mobile Search Marketing written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. The adoption quickly exploded and in 2012, global smartphone adoption reached 1 billion users. Search on Mobile Devices. The Future of Mobile Search.

Search 70

Search Mobile Marketing United States 70

www.readwriteweb.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Featured Sections: Mobile. Persistent rumors of a Facebook search engine, Google s efforts to integrate Google+ into its search results and Microsofts addition of Facebook tagging into Bing results. User behavior has been changing ever since, and search engines are changing to recognize this trend,” Salyer said. Enterprise.

Search 60

Search Boston San Francisco Cloud 60

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2017

Stat that matters : According to a 2016 Vendasta study about online reputation , 61% of consumers are more likely to contact a local business if they have a mobile optimized site. If Google starts sending people to the wrong places, Google will lose market share to other search engines. Social Media is also important to search engines.

Small Business 167

Small Business Software Review Social Media Balance Sheet 167

Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Kenya has many advantages, including experienced software engineers, healthy early-stage startup community, with good incubator and accelerator support, and enthusiastic and motivated young entrepreneurs. Mbwana Alliy founded the Nairobi based Savannah Fund in 2012. The next step would be to secure funding.

Kenya 45

Kenya Africa Incubator Cofounder 45

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The 1st round of five projects – MyUSA (formerly known as MyGov), RFP-EZ, Blue Button, Better Than Cash, and Open Data Initiatives – launched in August 2012 with 18 inaugural Fellows. Entrepreneurs used these data to create weather newscasts, websites, mobile applications, insurance, and much more.

Fractional CTO 158

Fractional CTO Government Technical Review Analytics 158

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Native Ads In 2013: Scale, Headlines As Banners, Mobile, Samsung, And Yahoo | TechCrunch - [link]. How Facebook’s Top Engineer Is Trying to Read Your Mind | Wired – [link]. 2012 Social Media Report: Users Spending 58% More Time On Social Media, Social App Usage More Than Doubles – [link].

Social Media 104

Social Media Small Business Design Media 104

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators. The king is dead, long live the king.

Romania 44

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 44

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

At today's roundtable, we discussed three major trends and opportunities for 2012 and also worked with an entrepreneur from Europe. In 2012, finally, we will see the first major crop of Indian entrepreneurs playing on the global stage. Social Contacts. Our audience of readers is full of entrepreneurs. And what do entrepreneurs do?

Greece 116

Greece Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley 116

The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Or its software engineering team could be the target, if Apple was impressed by their work. Color said that it had six patents pending at the time of its funding, including its ‘elastic’ social. graph and patents related to GPS location and battery saving.

Los Angeles 161

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Media Startup 161