om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Om Malik is the founder of GigaOM. He is the founder of Desiparty.com. Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned. Being a startup founder is hard, tough, frustrating and rewarding – possibly all within the space of a nanosecond. Are You Winning As a Founder? He is a venture partner at True Ventures.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

Hence, a Singaporean founder will find it easier to execute in the 3rd key market that is the MENASSEA region (Middle East, North Africa and South/Southeast Asia). In this case, I urge founders to start in the US first (i.e. For e.g. platforms, market places, aggregators, advertising networks… chances are you are a B2B2C company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. Irma Olguin : My name is Irma Olguin, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. And in fact, my co-founder is one of those, right?

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 31, 2011

Expo when Factual CEO and founder Gil Elbaz gave a talk on the challenges of big data. Elbaz identified several major hurdles that companies face around data: Findability Access Rights and Ownership Economics and Business Models Standards Integration and Aggregation Trust. Some of those issues were addressed today at Web 2.0

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Gavin Braman, Co-Founder @ Drifting Creatives. Just like Peep, other marketers from hypergrown products, such as David Cancel (founder at Drift) argue that product-based differentiation is vanishing. It’s like they thought about the attendees and what they need and then designed a format focused on them.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

It other words, it’s a team of designers and engineers. We had a designer, a front-end engineer, and a data scientist. Then, I evolved it into a growth team by hiring a designer and two engineers. Every team included a mix of designers, engineers, marketers, and copywriters. The growth teams that I’ve built.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Though they’re familiar with technology in the valley, I picked up some important cultural difference from students and startup engineers I talked to. (They also probably haven’t seen a phone that isn’t mobile.) Entrepreneurial Culture.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers. I’m very interested in additional ways to use technology to extend each of these! – OKRs for CEOs.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

It’s the second largest search engine in the world, and content from their platform reaches more 18–49 year-olds than any broadcast or cable TV network. The plan targets data scientists and video engineers. Brightcove analytics aggregated data effectively across those platforms. YouTube shines when it comes to brand awareness.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

By shifting the focus away from basic educational content and toward high-level inspirational concepts, Zuora inspired the elite and discerning audience it intended to sell to—CEOs, founders, and executives. Zuora’s founder Tien Tzuo is now regarded as a visionary, a man who predicted the shift to subscriptions before anyone else.

B2B 133

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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. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. What They Do: Travel search engine. Headquarters: Norwalk, CT & Concord, MA.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The founders are committed to the global distributed computing community and engage fully by offering and sustaining a free community versio n for life. Transformations, aggregations and joins at massive scale is where BlazingDB wins! Our Team is Stellar BlazingDB was founded out of necessity.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In 2009, Netflix offered $1 million to anyone who could improve the quality of its recommendation engine by 10%. As it turned out , the enhanced algorithms “did not seem to justify the engineering effort needed to bring them into a production environment.”. It took two years, but a team finally won. A world of real-time predictions.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce. Google Ventures (GV). 17% (13 / 80). Pitchbot.vc

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Rick Boerebach is a co-founder of ZEEF.com , a curated link directory built by passionate experts. Most affiliate networks offer something that’s called datafeeds, which is like a product search engine of affiliated advertisers so you can easily find products and get affiliate links.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Though they’re familiar with technology in the valley, I picked up some important cultural difference from students and startup engineers I talked to. (They also probably haven’t seen a phone that isn’t mobile.) Entrepreneurial Culture.

China 218

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ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2019

The advanced technical knowledge of university professors in engineering and science, for example, makes it harder for them to teach first-year students effectively. Live chat : You can aggregate data that you collect on audience interactions with live chat representatives or chatbots. Search Engine Journal does this with their blog.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Pamela Poole is a blogger, translator and tech writer, and founder of Francophilia.com , a social startup for Francophiles. There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. All those struggling, bootstrapping, Ramen-eating founders?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2011

Kaptur is an online solution that allows users to aggregate, store and share photos, videos and status updates from various social media platforms easily. It’s experienced significant growth due to the many partnership deals with other online sites and media companies such as RecreateMyNight.com and EMI Records.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

I also suggested that Ashni focuses on funding science, technology and engineering program students, since there is so much energy today around America's role in the world, and whether the country is losing its edge in science and technology. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here. Discuss.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Many of our job postings for Engineering positions describe the company as a place “where the word ‘millions’ is used frequently and in many contexts&#. Each of those domains would get one point in the aggregated list. I got a taste of that within my first weeks on the job. graph consists of a set of nodes connected by edges.

Software Review 217

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. It's one of those things that founders can do sometimes where other employees are afraid to do it.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. What is a recommendation engine, exactly? How Recommendation Engines Benefit Sites.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 11, 2023

Riffing Off VC Charles Hudson’s Blog Post, Here’s What I’m Trying to Answer a group of different robots running a race, digital art [DALL-E] If startup founders sometimes ‘Build in Public,’ is the analogou sventure capitalist motto to ‘Think in Public?’

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. I’d expect a similar shift in venture over the next decade or two.”.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

This “gain” ($34B last year alone) is a result of a direct wealth-transfer to these individuals FROM the previous owners of the company — founders, executives, employees, and venture investors. Is it disrespectful to imply that the founders, executives, VC-backers, and the boards of these companies are gullible or naive?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

But Chicago-based startup MentorMob ( www.mentormob.com ) wants to change that – the free, community-based collaborative service aims to aggregate and organize the best online educational content on any topic, so it’s easier to find. With MentorMob , you spend more time learning and less time searching.”. Learning From Others.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators. Through the years, FanGagers’ founders have successfully managed interactive advertising campaigns for leading brands such as: Heinz, Colgate, Orange, American Express, Toshiba, Mercedes Benz, Hyundai, Yellow Pages, Stella Artois, Danone. Our project.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Russell Rothstein, Founder and CEO, IT Central Station , a product review site, said, “We see VCs on our site very often. 3) Raise capital.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 19, 2009 Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Its been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. We can remedy it by creating a special visa for startup founders. I think the benefits are a no-brainer. 2gov.org will take care of the rest.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

And while the value of testing may be apparent to those involved in it, individual test results do not aggregate into ROI calculations made in the C-Suite. It depends on your goals,” CXL Founder Peep Laja explained. Look-back windows and baselines for holdouts. What about the degree of site change? To team priorities.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

Speaking with Landon Ray, the Founder of ONTRAPORT. He is the Founder and CEO of ONTRAPORT, an award-winning web-based sales marketing and business automation software platform. An engineer now walks into our scene and as you saw, it looks like a good bet. Transcript. It’s really great to hear his story.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 29, 2017

Mission : To provide answers to those questions that founders/operators frequently ask their investors and peers, and to replace anecdotes with data-supported answers. Founders and startups use SaaS (i.e. It’s worth noting that SaaS companies could probably do something interesting with all their data in aggregate.

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Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

One of my first mentors in venture capital explained to me that the key role of a VC is to “aggregate talent.” At NextView Ventures, we’re hyper-focused on the seed stage, and since starting the firm, we’ve heard repeatedly and consistently from founders that a primary challenge they face during that stage is hiring.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. This is an incredible skill, one that most engineers overlook. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process.

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