A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

This is Part 5 of the 5-part series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches. Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. The obvious problem is that every new startup on Earth says exactly these things. Infection built-in, not bolt-on.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

Support the ATX Startup Community by voting for this selection of panels featuring Austinites. Of the thousands of submissions, our team has poured through and highlighted a diverse grouping of Austin startup focused panels that we think deserve to be at SXSW 2019! By: Tom Hadfiled, CEO @ M.io If you’re unfamiliar with PanelPicker?—?it

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

The journey of every startup is so different. Seed round), and Lula (insurance API infrastructure – $18M Series A). . Startups pioneering the future of remote work. No startup relocation, temporary or permanent, is necessary or requested for NextView’s 100% virtual accelerator program. Who you are.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

So I agree with Fred Wilson’s post that startup applications shouldn’t simply be plugging in minor feature gaps in Twitter’s offering. I articulated in a previous post that startups should not treat the iPhone as a business but rather as a channel. 2) I also clarified that the strategy of Ad.ly

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Force… From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

when a technology startup, its investors or the market believe in robust growth rates writ large. “the ecommerce company gained fauxmentum by raising artificially high amounts of venture capital and spent lavishly on customer acquisition despite long payback periods and questionable LTV” __. __. faux·men·tum.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

Take This Week in Startups , for example. Their podcast is all about discussing the startup news that matters. All companies that This Week in Startups’ audience of entrepreneurs, company founders, and marketers would be interested in. Among their sponsors, you’ll see names like LinkedIn, Fiverr, and Notion.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 22, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Odds Are, Your Startup Probably Isn’t a Platform. I have the great privilege of meeting lots of entrepreneurs every day and hearing about the startups they’re building. But the reality is that most software-based startups aren’t really platforms. And Why 20%?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 18, 2018

As technology takes on a bigger role in businesses of all types, tech acquisitions become both short- and long-term investments. That means the next year or two will likely bring some blockbuster mergers and acquisitions as companies determine how they can mesh their services and products with others’.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Infochimps , a marketplace to buy, sell and share any list, spreadsheet or dataset in the world, today announced the acquisition of Data Marketplace , a Y Combinator-incubated startup that helps people find, buy and sell data online. What does this acquisition do for you as a company? and other data projects.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 7, 2017

Superficially it’s a listicle with Five AI Startup Predictions for 2017 , but you don’t have to read very long before finding some good structured analysis and original thinking. Machine-learning as-a-service dies a death – main reason: machine learning APIs are two dumb for AI experts and too difficult for AI novices.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

Also, they are investors, startup advisors, and co-founders of Agency18, a firm that helps mission-driven companies adopt their Unsold Mindset. They don't want to talk about APIs and they don't wanna talk about integrations. (23:46): So Colin and Garrett, welcome to the show. Their, their job is to sell technology, but they hate it.

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. the  Google Prediction API ), communicate app services (e.g. the  Dropbox API ).

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

We have reviewed the application process of other RBI lenders and have not found one that has more API connections that ours. Pied Piper Inc needs funding to accelerate customer acquisition for its SaaS solution. Up to $3M in growth capital for your tech startup”. To best explain the process of RBF funding, let’s use an example.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 5, 2014

Getting the first 1,000 users is a hurdle most startup companies and small businesses know well. The team at Lob , a company bringing commercial print and mail infrastructure to the cloud through a simple API, encountered this common struggle. The hard part is to get customers as excited about your product as you are. Think small.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For a pursuit that largely revolves around silent time spent at a computer by one person then, slowly at first, a few more people, a bit more talking, and on and on until failure, acquisition, or IPO, it may seem inconsequential to consider where it all goes down. Stark reality pervades the streets, avenues, and alleyways here.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For a pursuit that largely revolves around silent time spent at a computer by one person then, slowly at first, a few more people, a bit more talking, and on and on until failure, acquisition, or IPO, it may seem inconsequential to consider where it all goes down. Stark reality pervades the streets, avenues, and alleyways here.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 5, 2011

The BackType founders would have been perfect candidates for the Startup Visa — and are yet another testament to why we need such a program in the US. Few people are aware of this, but BackType had already built an interesting (and revenue generating) API business. Congrats Team BackType!

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Paul Graham’s Startup Curve – avoid the “through of sorrow”! Growth Hacking comes to solve a very common problem in consumer startups: getting to the first x thousand/million users quickly once the product has launched and the hype has passed. First Steps in Growth Hacking for Startups.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

The same can be said of Facebook and its acquisition of Oculus, along with its recent full-frontal assault against Snapchat AR filters and lenses. Snap will need to build foundational cloud service APIs that tech giants have been building for 5–10 years such as maps, identity, authentication, etc.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Like many young SaaS startups, we had no shortage of marketing and sales data, but it wasn’t easy to comprehend. Instead of measuring Awareness, Appeal, and Ask separately, we combined all marketing acquisition efforts under the Awareness stage, leaving Act to account for conversions in the form of sign-ups.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 27, 2015

We love these platforms for many reasons, but the primary one is the power of their network effects and how they create a high degree of defensibility for startups. Understanding how network effects impact your startup brings you one step closer to building a more defensible product. What are network effects?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 22, 2011

All this collection talk assumes you can even get an API feed from Twitter or Facebook. People who actually have Facebook API access talk about it in whispered tones, like the location of a vein of gold in the hills. How about some comments from you folks in Austin working in Big Data?

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This technology is already used for large-scale data acquisition, and it has hundreds of applications beyond that. It has a backbone that allows you to hang off technologies like robotic process automation with Blue Prism, and call Google with APIs that enable you to use machine learning.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 11, 2010

Granted, this doesn’t exactly benefit either company when it comes to customer acquisition, but I think it will improve the quality of public streams dramatically. Twitter is largely an open protocol, but for a lot of people outside the technology sphere it’s mechanical and lacks relevant — in part to its innovative public API.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

We are excited to announce that Keepstream has been acquired by Infochimps, leading API provider and data marketplace! I will re-post it here for you. Congratulations to everyone involved! Keepstream is joining Infochimps!

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million.

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Acquisition. Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts. Recent Stories: Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts. The startups will also have the option of using office space on Microsoft’s Bellevue, Wash. Featured stories. Enterprise.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX. And the backend requires things in addition to a common foundation, a data management platform, open API, is all the T&E tools, everything should be available to everybody in the Department of Defense.

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BeyondVC

MAY 12, 2006

While I won’t go into excruciating detail on the sessions, one of the highlights wass having Steve Ballmer give a frank discussion on how VCs and startups can work with Microsoft. He made it very clear that the pace of acquisitions has increased, rising from 9 the prior year to 22 this past year.

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Software By Rob

MAY 13, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. This post is an excerpt from my upcoming book, Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup. Consider this permission to do a little marketing for your startup or product. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Previously, he was the COO of digital gift card start-up Giftly from its inception in 2010 to its acquisition by Giftcards.com in 2013. Most investors, most people in the startup ecosystem, I would describe as eternal optimists, glass-half-full people. On Dan’s Former Startup. On Dan’s Eternal Optimism (or lack thereof).

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

AMP for acquisition, PWAs for engagement. For example, the History API gives developers the ability to modify a website’s URL without a full page refresh. By using Fetch API , you gain the ability to listen and respond to offline requests. That’s where Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) come in. Here’s a good explainer video.)

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

So just to close off the task part at least for the time being, yes, I would like to create an API integration, so if you use Asana, great, for your tasks. So if I make an open API, you can make a bridge for the tool that you use. Nobody can do an API. That is always true for all startups until they get old, right?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

million in Israel’s Face.com , a startup developing face recognition technology. The Face recognition space has recently gotten interesting, following the acquisition of Swedish startup Polar Rose by Apple, estimated at $22-$29 million.

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allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

View all videos » api-video/find_all_videos.asp&fields=id,thumbnailURL,guid,video320kMP4Url,name,duration&count=4&doctype=128&type=allthingsd-section&query=Network+Effect. ATDacquisitions (Acquisitions). ATDstartups (Startups). July 14, 2012 at 10:27 am PT. July 14, 2012 at 5:00 am PT. Latest Video. ATDapple (Apple).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2010

For this reason, aside from Promoted Tweets, we will not allow any third party to inject paid tweets into a timeline on any service that leverages the Twitter API. We are updating our Terms of Service to articulate clearly what we mean by this statement, and we encourage you to read the updated API Terms of Service to be released shortly.

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