YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2015

This also entails looking at how ideas flow and aggregate in social networks. Social Stock Traders Do Better. Sharing the example of stock-trading site eToro , Pentland described how members of the site can reveal their stock trades to each other and others to “copy” their trades. What are your thoughts on this?

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Recommendations can be powered by aggregate data, which determines the relevance of a certain item in relation to a given context, or user specific data, that fuels personalized recommendations. While in the media, the words recommendations and personalization are pretty much used interchangeably, they’re not at all the same thing.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

Our timing was brutal: the Box S-1 coincided with the start of a major market correction for SaaS stocks, and our newly revealed financials made us a natural poster company for that change in sentiment. Of course, media scrutiny doesn’t exist in a vacuum. A process that normally takes five weeks, give or take, took us ten months!

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Some of these businesses are still with us, including Google and the social media behemoth Facebook. Sean Fanning developed Napster, one of the first aggregated and user-friendly peer-to-peer music file sharing platforms, when he was just a freshman at Boston’s Northeastern University.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 7, 2017

Casey was kind enough to join me for Five Questions where he said not to “pull any punches… ” Hunter Walk: The way media companies make money (or measure success) can sometimes be inconsistent with what I think leads to good reporting. Are your competitors aggregating your work? Are they crediting you for your scoop?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. And to top it all off, Snap isn’t offering voting rights to public market investors, which should discount the stock price further. Now she’s on it every day!

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K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

In my view the terminology being used for early stage investors by the press and the media is not as clear as it should be. <$50K in aggregate. Common Stock. Convertible Note or Preferred Stock. Convertible Note or Preferred Stock. Preferred Stock. Preferred Stock. Preferred Stock / Warrants.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). The pipeline of companies in registration has continued to grow. So now what? Author howerl.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. For example, Salesforce spends tons of people/money on social media posting/activity and you can see this on display on their Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other presence. You’ll see my pet peeves about what media entities don’t measure in this cluster of recommendations….

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

She, by the way, was busy on social media. But a lot of it is also just getting the data, aggregating it, being able to take action on it. Jen Pahlka : Like your Long-Term Stock Exchange. My mom really wanted me to come and I went. Trying to get all of her peers to take this seriously. That's been the second wave of needs.

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Venture Chronicles

JULY 11, 2010

“The shift underscores the remarkable recovery of the biggest banks and brokerage firms since Washington rescued them in the fall of 2008, and follows the huge rebound in profits for members of the New York Stock Exchange , which totaled $61.4 billion in 2009, the most ever.&#. Okay so now the picture is a little clearer, Wall St.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. In this article on stock photos , I described a study illustrating that power: “ Bateson, Nettle, & Roberts (2006) provided customers with an unsupervised ‘honesty box’ to pay for their lunch. Among their findings, one primary factor was efficacy. The problem?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

20 years ago, much of public equity investing was done by mutual funds run by a few smart folks picking stocks. It’s hard to find anyone who says “I just have the magic” in stock picking. The goal is to intelligently structure the information collected and combine it with additional information scraped from the web and social media.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2013

This is thanks to my participation in social media. These changes would lead me to believe that simply aggregating supply and demand isn't enough of a function for angel groups to survive. In the public stock market, activist investors rally institutionals to affect change in the investing landscape--keeping boards in check.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Thus, the process of negotiating taking back stock from founders is not rational and inherently very difficult. Company : Wesabe.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The more I wrote about the oncoming mobile and broadband revolution, the more obvious it became that the print media was going to fight for attention with cheaper, faster publications. Blogs were part of the shift to a more intimate, frenzied, and on the go media landscape. I knew I had to leave Business 2.0

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Is there any need for the useless stock photos (and what is up with the magnifying glass to represent research, who does that?)? And because all data in aggregate is crap , segmented trends are even better! This allowed me to switch the x-axis to each media channel, they were the heroes here. And finally, switch to a bar graph.

Analytics 144

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2020

Another great example of linkable assets are pages that aggregate industry stats, like this one. Before connecting with them, promote one of their recent posts on your social media accounts. Add a two-liner that lets the Editor/reviewer know who you are—a short bio or social media links to help them assess your authority quickly.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

As a company grows, corporate leaders must become fixated on the stock price, internal politics and compliance. And social media gave them all the ability to market their products in non-traditional ways. Since I had that conversation, their stock value has depreciated by 99%. The end of corporate arrogance.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

Well the same could be viewed as a community, a marketplace, social media company, anything. You created the longterm stock exchange. But I am, in aggregate, really proud, not just of the decisions we made, but of how everyone acted. I wanted to know, how healthy the food actually is of the person eating it.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. would love your thoughts on our startup (well its well started) imorial.com [link] Be a social media star: a menu board of 5 competences « flowing motion [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. Brian Chesky is always trying to figure out how to put stock in the hands of his community and how to bring community input into the governance, because that's such an important part of the ethos of Airbnb. ER : Don't get me started about stock exchanges. BA : Oh, yes.

IPO 113

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. We need to have a close look at the worlds two biggest social media networks of Twitter and Facebook – they run open API’s for each other to assist their customers and suppliers switch and share between each other.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly Even if they’re not using this to target you with information sent via Twitter, they might use it in aggregate to determine things like the likely electoral votes in a region that will swing for a candidate.

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Scott Edward Walker

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Accordingly, startups would not be permitted to raise funds via social media sites like Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn (as permitted under the House bill). Until the crowdfunding bill becomes law, startups should avoid selling stock or other securities via crowdfunding sites or social networking sites. What Should Startups Do?

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Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 13, 2012

Under current federal and state securities laws, startups are prohibited from selling stock or other securities via crowdfunding sites or social networking sites.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

They have an obvious trade-off between a big “pop” (great media coverage and morale boost) versus more cash proceeds. Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. They can’t sell the stock at this multiple and therefore that valuation is not available to them. So if 20.5X

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

That knowledge gap hampers efforts to staff and stock the stadium appropriately. That disconnect still thwarts even the most fundamental business cases for real-time predictive analytics. Teams know how many tickets were distributed; however, they do not know in “real time” how many people are in the venue or stadium during the event.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

Innocent on the other hand clearly understands Conversational Marketing (they are a small company, not yet corporatized I suspect, and likely deal with a smaller combination of lawyers/PR types/Social Media Gurus/Agencies – a sad likely bane on Tide's existence). Let's say you have a stock portfolio with someone like E-Trade.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Media Temple. Social Media Tracking/Marketing. analytics for social media and online. social media and email marketing. aggregation. Catch Media. Email Integration. Domains.Co. Text Editor. Macromates. Sublime Text. Name.com *. Bluehost *. StartLogic *. Windows Azure. Amazon Web Services. code spaces (svn).

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. ” The stock traded at about $12.10 Old media’s problems are the costs not the lack of paywalls.

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