YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

by Tim Handorf, Co-Founder and President of G2 Crowd. While we have many company-specific needs, there are some types of software that most small businesses could use to address core needs, such as CRM , invoice management , marketing automation , sales intelligence , or even HR functions , for larger businesses.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta. This means finance, operations, sales, and marketing departments as well as leadership can all access the same data. The digital revolution is disrupting the traditional business model for small and medium businesses (SMBs).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Founder’s perspective. how to build an initial sales organization.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 11, 2021

Rich is founder and president of flyte new media, a digital agency in Portland, Maine, that’s been in business for over 24 years. He founded The Agents of Change, an annual conference and weekly podcast that focuses on search, social & mobile marketing. Sales Engagement Platforms are fundamental to the Modern Tech Stack.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

We believe that it is incrementally harder to differentiate on simple Internet products or mobile apps and while great companies are built doing this, our goal as a fund is to try and fund things that can be 100x returns if they work. We’re not Pollyannaish about this. In short, we’re after venture returns.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2015

by Tal Segalov, CTO & co-founder of Mintigo. A good marketing team will also help you create trends of your own that will boost sales and keep you relevant. Never neglect mobile operations. Countless studies have shown that most people who go on social media do so from their mobile device.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

For example: Mitch Kapor was a founder of Lotus. He’s a founder of Andreessen Horowitz, which has backed Facebook, Skype, Jawbone, and dozens of other companies whose products you use. Another way to learn more about who’s speaking is to sort the conference program by category and find people addressing specific topics.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2011

But what is really interesting this year is the accompanying Apps World Asia 2011 , where there are specific tracks applicable to developers and programmers working in the web and mobile application spaces. Sirina Sisombat of Haiku Asia shared that app stores run by mobile operators can be another potential avenue for distributing apps.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We then help surround founders with other talent who want to join important causes but don’t have the startup idea themselves. We help founders through difficult moments, we help coach, we act as sparring partners, we help them resolve conflicts when they’re fighting with co-founders and we help them deal with adversity as well as successes.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Steven Raz, co-founder and managing partner of Cornerstone Search Group, LLC, believes successful entrepreneurs need the ability to “operate and make decisions with incomplete information.” EO New Jersey has approximately 90 members and their companies have more than $500 million in total sales and employ more than 2,100 individuals.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. Startup Insights From Paul English, Co-Founder of Kayak - OnStartups , May 10, 2010 I’m just wrapping up several weeks of attending conferences across both coasts. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. It says what?!”).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. Very few founder CEOs go into the job ever expecting to give up their seat. We set out to find Jonathan’s “co-founder.”

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 9, 2018

by Mark Sands, Co-Founder and CEO of High Risk Merchant Account LLC. Google is truly on track to become the dominant player in the Mobile Payments Space. On the merchant side, business owners should consider Google Pay at the point-of-sale, for fast “Tap & Go” mobile payments.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post). Time will tell.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

By now you probably know that David Sacks , co-founder of PayPal and founder of both Geni & Yammer made some observations on Facebook that Silicon Valley “as we know it” was coming to an end. “In order to create a successful new company, you have to find an idea that. (1) Where I Might Expand the Argument.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

We often talk about online conversion optimization without mentioning that many businesses, especially B2B, rely on offline sales to produce revenue. There’s a lot we can do online to help our sales teams close deals. It starts with sales enablement. What Is Sales Enablement and Why Should You Care? Image Source.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2014

I was still doing consulting work and built a point-of-sale and CRM system for a local cellular retailer. If you’re not a strong software developer, for example, hire someone or bring on a co-founder who is. Requesting help can be hard, but it makes you more efficient and increases your business’ chances of success.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong – mobile payments has been a very hot area over the past couple of years with the success and growth of both Boku and Zong. Boku and Zong focus mostly on mobile payments for virtual goods. It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. VC Financings: 1.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

If you’re an eBay or HardwareZone forum junkie who regularly uses those sites to sell unwanted items or hunt for pre-loved items, check this new mobile app out: Carousell is a mobile marketplace that connects buyers and sellers socially. There’s Facebook and Twitter integration too, of course.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

So you have a great idea for a new mobile app or Web service—but you don’t know anything about coding or developing. You might have started searching for a tech-oriented co-founder to help you launch your idea, only to find that your startup can’t afford the ongoing salary for a skilled software developer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn and Greylock Partners will be talking about “blitzscaling” with his co-author Chris Yeh, and Stanford Professor Bob Sutton. Kabam, the mobile gaming company, hit a major stumbling block in its early days when its financing was lost due to the 2008 financial collapse.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2021

David Raab Founder at CDP Institute. If your customer service team has insights into why customers are churning, but your sales team is left in the dark, that’s a problem. If your sales team is leading with one feature, but your customer service team has data on why another feature is more popular, that needs to be communicated.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

In the past week, Rakuten , a Japanese e-commerce company, bought Viber , a mobile messaging video app, for $900M; and Facebook bought WhatsApp , a mobile messaging app with 450M active monthly users globally (almost entirely outside of the US), for a deal that could be worth $19B after earnouts.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 28, 2015

How Customer Photos Improve Mobile Shopping written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Mobile commerce is expected to grow nearly 50% in the next four years. This is strongly reflected in the still lagging mobile conversion and purchase rates—mobile’s conversion rate lags over 3.5x

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

by Aneace Haddad, CEO & Founder, Taggo. Co-branded cards were invented, combining a Visa, MasterCard or American Express payment brand along with a retailer or airline brand. What was still missing was a simple way to identify a customer at the point of sale. Sure, lots of features were added over the years.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Online retail sales are a $ 4.9 retail sales. For even the largest global brands, it’s been a challenge to overcome barriers to premium mobile commerce entry, including speed, cost, and the technical talent to meet demand for a heightened experience. By: Ryan Terry, co-founder and president, BILDIT.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood. 3- Sam Walton.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

During that time, we watched the first wave of mobile apps take off — Foursquare, GroupOn, Instagram, Twitter, etc. Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. We were infatuated with tech. Factom, Inc.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

San Mateo, California-based Mobile Spinach ( www.mobilespinach.com ) is an integrated mobile commerce and group-buying platform that provides users with virtual discount coupons that can be redeemed at participating local merchants. Mobile Spinach was founded in 2010 by entrepreneurs John Vitti, Antonio Vitti, and Steve Lewis.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Rossanna Ceccato is the founder of Redress, a disruptive clothing platform that helps women renew and refresh their wardrobes through dress swaps. I have been continually impressed by Sarah Hawley, the founder of Growmotely. His innovative ideas about home computers and mobiles changed the market forever. 3- Rossanna Ceccato.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 3, 2020

Another excellent way to leverage integrated software solutions is by having a mobile app developed for its employees. Uber is able to model a virtual fleet of taxis from private cars through a combination of large-scale data analysis, mobile software, mapping, and social networking. Business Process Automation Can Help Save Costs.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 10, 2018

When you’re launching and then trying to build a startup , it’s important to get as many sales as possible each day. When it comes to payment choice, these days more and more consumers are keen to use mobile wallets and other mobile payment options to enjoy speedy processing, ease of use, and other benefits. Source: Flickr.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Founders’ Chat is a series where we share the entrepreneurial journey of founders from the GridAKL start-up hub. As a startup founder, your time and resources tend to be limited. Pay with Choice using your mobile phone at the counter instead of a credit or debit card. NZ Sales Manager. Australian Sales Leader.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Founded in May 2011, the small outfit quickly pushed out its first game Reign of Heroes - a mobile social game for feature phones – by the end of that year, which grew swiftly to host more than one million players. The Mobile Game Revolution. billion to an expected US$22 billion in the same period. billion to US$22 billion.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

From Lean Startup Machine , Lean LA and San Diego Tech Founders , to countless speeches and workshops, I have seen the impact that their leadership has had first hand. Or will you need to staff and finance a whaling ship to be out at sea for months at a time to catch two or three whales (enterprise sales model)?

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 21, 2015

ECommerce sales during Christmas tend to see a big surge as customers prefer the quietness of at home shopping compared to the hassles of finding parking and a store full of people. To make sure you aren’t losing out on valuable sales, advanced planning and a good strategy is vital. You’ve got this! Start here.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. He was the CEO of two startups. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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