Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Groupon’s purchase of Whrrl suggests that Groupon will soon be leveraging location based social networking or "check-ins" on their popular group coupon site. Leave tips where your contacts go (maybe similar to what History Channel does on Foursquare). Track the competition.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

GigaOM Structure aims tackle the challenge of understanding how to architect data centers, networks and applications along with the big questions emerging in computing and IT. The conference brings the top marketing, technology and social media professionals together to share their tips and tools on making the latest marketing trends work.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Global revenue from mobile advertising increased by 92 percent from 2012 to 2013, growing from $10.1 MassMedia has also successfully utilized advertisements targeting mobile users of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. billion by 2017, more than doubling the $18 billion spending projection for 2014.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 1, 2021

We are so consumed today in our digital lives that nearly every trending story pertains to the digital space — NFTs, Defi, cryptocurrency, social networking, cloud gaming, SaaS, metaverse, OTT streaming — all related to the ones and zeros that our lives have become so dependent upon. In reality, digital has eaten humanity.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

By Raj Subramaniam, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing and Communications, FedEx Services. Here are three megatrends that all businesses should be aware of, as well as some tips that will help them better engage with customers and grow their businesses globally. Social Commerce. It’s all just shopping.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. And most notably absent is building a network. One that provides everything that a big, valuable, growing network should.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

So, for example, if you’re reading your favorite newspaper and see an interesting article you’d like to share with someone – or across a social network – you just need to scan the paper with the app and it will launch the digital version for sharing. Consider it as a bit like Shazam for print.

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Life Beyond Code

APRIL 26, 2015

Here is the chart for your quick reference: Here are quick observations with reference to 2014: 1. The slowest growth rate (6.51%) is the revenue from Network sites. Online users at the end of 2014 stand at 2,925.249,355 and has grown 7.85% from 2013. for Google websites but dropped by 1.24% for the network sites.

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Up and Running

MARCH 24, 2014

Every good company has a very strong mission statement,” said David Sacks, the founder, chairman, and then-CEO of Yammer, a social network service for business, in an interview with Bryant. If you’d like some additional inspiration, join us for the global Quick And Nimble book club with author Adam Bryant. So Why Wait?

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 9, 2015

But a very small number of global brands manage to withstand the test of time. What can you do so that you’re not remembered as a social network called MySpace or Google’s Orkut? From Snapchat to Instagram, the younger demographic, for instance is on social media. There are old brand ads that we still love.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2016

A 2014 study from Emergent Research revealed that there are four main forces currently driving the development of the next generation of small businesses: socioeconomics, customer needs, platforms and ecosystem, and technology and infrastructure. For example, social networking of payment service APIs are some of the most popular today.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2015

Social and Guest Blogger Networks. Social media is becoming an increasingly pay-to-play environment, especially on Facebook. Get enough outlets in your network, and you could have hundreds of thousands of new readers and fans of your content, which ultimately leads to conversion upticks. Cost-per-Click (CPC) $0.25–$0.35.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 10, 2019

In 2014, 84% of the millennial population supported a charitable cause with a financial donation, and 70% donated at least one hour of their time to a charitable cause. A leader in the market, Ven is a stable digital currency that is recognized by global financial markets and indexed by Thomson Reuters.

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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. or Charles Hudson at Precursor Ventures the moment I started a new business that I felt had global potential. —?but it’s true. Most definitely.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Despite the ongoing recession, I took to my kitchen table in 2013 to launch Digital Air Strike — an award-winning automotive social media and digital engagement company. Tapping into my knowledge of and experience in automotive marketing, I identified a need to monetize social networks for businesses.

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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. It can save time.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

A good example is Starbucks’ successful design-a-cup campaign in 2014. Winners were scouted by the company for its 2014 advertising campaign. April 4, 2014. www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/fuel-social-marketing-user-generated-content. Global Advertising Consumers Trust Real Friends and Virtual Strangers The Most.”

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The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

Viber is quite global. Obviously, we index better in some countries (and worse in others), but it’s pretty much a global phenomenon. Ask me on 1/1/2014. I believe the difference between the social and communication is quite difficult to say. At the current growth rate, Windows Phone will become #3 at some point.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2015

.” In many respects, technology acts as the great leveler, opening up global trade that was once the exclusive preserve of large multinationals. Servicing a global customer base means overcoming problems such as time zones, and language and cultural nuances. 1] Bigcommerce, The Democratization of Ecommerce, September 2014. [2]

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

After rapid international expansion across several continents, as the founding team brought Silicon Valley’s global ambition into Europe, and the extension of its offering to buses and multimodal transportation, BlaBlaCar is preparing for the travel rebound expected as the world reopens. In Silicon Valley, the ambition is always global.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

On the one hand innovation is clearly at an all time high unleashed by smart phones, fast telecom networks, social networks that spread commerce and the fact that we are all one click away from buying things on Amazon, Apple, Google or PayPal. In 2014 3 out of 12 exits were occurred at a lower valuation than the previous round.

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 2, 2015

This may differ based on the channel – ranging from National Geographic photographs to recipes from the Food network. Other than these platform led initiatives, videos and real time content curation by consumers using brand hashtags is moving forward with a gusto on all social networks. #2 exabytes per month by 2019.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

I believe that it was erroneous not to answer the two questions above, it was erroneous to be tempted by the Big Numbers and not understand how Social Media channels actually worked (streams, home pages, personalization, rankings and more). if your business should be on that network and 2. So, let's fix that error. They should.

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Brandanew

JULY 16, 2015

Social Networks , when they first arrived in the scene over a decade ago, were dismissed by many experts as juvenile fads. However, some of them did not only sustain but thrived by figuring out the marketing potential of these networks. They just grew too fast but did not know how to monetize.

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