The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Starting out, you can’t hit every network and outlet full-force. Initially, your staff (even if that’s just you and a co-founder) will be your greatest asset in locating and connecting with your audience. Before you can afford staff dedicated to social media, spread the duties around. Prioritize social networks.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 17, 2011

Finding and agreeing upon a worthy name is always a struggle, especially if you have co-founders. There’s a lot of advice on the Internet about naming companies; see this article from OnStartups.com for a particularly good, detailed checklist. Then of course there’s the domain name. Or consider Yahoo!

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The Next Web

JANUARY 25, 2014

Noam Fine, co-Founder and CEO of Widdit , providing app developers engagement solutions over the mobile and Web platforms. As the number of users increases, you can provide incentives for these users to share your app on social networks. Of course, user retention will also increase monetization. Yours should be, too.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

New domain names are launching at a rate of seven per week just this past month alone. Finance-related domain names that have become available to pre-register include.bank,loans or.ventures. Finance-related domain names that have become available to pre-register include.bank,loans or.ventures. If you’re in finance.

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Naming SEO Analytics Cofounder 138

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

Every night you are just hanging out with big name bands and the teams around them that brought them to their peak.&#. I turned around and there was StockTwits founder (and my favorite Tweeter) Howard Lindzon. And we’re here with Dan Martell , who like any great startup founder is wearing his company t-shirt for Flowtown.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Gayle King is co-host of CBS This Morning. as in pro wrestling?—?you’re you’re going to take some hits.

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The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

Investor and 500 Startups founder Dave McClure offered TNW a few of his thoughts. ” Devotees to the “culture-as-brand” school of startup are loathe to admit that there’s sometimes a downside to too many company-wide discussions — namely that they can fall off the rails. To an extent, all of this is true.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. No matter the name?—?the We all know the famous story of Apple, which at one point kicked out its co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs.

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shelfmade.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

ShelfMade Home About Best Article You’ll Ever Read and Not Understand Finding Non-Tech Founders October 3, 2007.5:27 Are people that you meet (point 2) passing you the names of programmers? If your idea sounds anything like “A social network for &# you probably need something else. Develop a Remarkable Idea.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

Start by making sure you build a great business brand, including a strong business name and a memorable logo design. Co-working spaces tend to provide businesses with savings up to 30 percent , which can be huge savings for new companies with a lot of expenses to contend with. Consider a coworking space. At the end of 2017, nearly 1.2

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Founder Kevin Systrom launched Instagram with 25,000 beta users on October 6, 2010; two years later, the app continues to see massive growth, recently reporting 150 million active users. Luck, timing and social engineering are bigger components than most entrepreneurs care to imagine,” adds Werdelin. 3) Facebook. 6) Pinterest.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Find free office space at Loosecubes. Thats real money."

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San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

In their quest for sustainable growth, the elusive dream for most first time founders is that first funding. This can either come from the founder(s) own bank account or from outside investors. At this stage you’re essentially selling yourself and your cofounders. One of the easiest mistake to fix is timing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2023

No matter how talented you are, it doesn’t matter unless managers can see those talents and think of you as an invaluable employee, or a game-changing manager, or the person whose name is synonymous with success. Use the idea to kick-start your relationships with co-founders, investors, customers and business partners.

Technical Review 292

Technical Review Social Network Reputation Cofounder 292

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2013

by MaryAnn Bekkedahl, co-founder and president of theSwizzle. To give you an example of that noise, brands, social networks and other organizations sent a record number of marketing messages in 2012, up 19% on 2011. MaryAnn Bekkedahl is co-founder & president of theSwizzle and an expert in email organization.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

I talked to Adam Hempenstall, founder and CEO at BetterProposals , who has been using freemium for three years for his SaaS product: “Honestly, I think it was a mistake. The name is self-explanatory—you offer an app for free and charge for in-app purchases and add-ons to provide users with a better experience or bring extra value.

Startup 110

Startup Non-Compete Viral Software Review 110

The Next Web

JANUARY 31, 2014

Yoav Vilner is the CEO and co-founder of Ranky.co , a growth hacking and online marketing team. Based on past experience, the penalty will carry a sweet name (I vote for “One-Eyed Weasel”) and affect any website that has its entire link profile based on guest posts – most of them in medium to low quality websites.

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CTO Hire Search Web Social Media 138

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The directory of other entrepreneurs, browsable by industry and name, is also helpful for locating someone who might be helpful regarding a specific issue. EFactor The authors of business networking book The N Factor venture up the alphabet a little bit to bring you the EFactor.

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Entrepreneur Social Media Technical Review Social Network 94

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

Start by making sure you build a great business brand, including a strong business name and a memorable logo design. Co-working spaces tend to provide businesses with savings up to 30 percent , which can be huge savings for new companies with a lot of expenses to contend with. Consider a coworking space. At the end of 2017, nearly 1.2

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Entrepreneur Chicago Cofounder United States 48

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2019

Back in March of 2015, I launched a Kickstarter campaign with these words: “Hi, my name is Eric Ries. I’ve worked with founders developing new apps, entrepreneurs at hypergrowth pre-IPO tech startups, and managers at the largest, slowest, most heavily-regulated and bureaucratic organizations in the world.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Even less-obvious founders like the internet media personality and Digg founder Kevin Rose actually began in computer science. In the cases of all the founders I just mentioned the answer was yes. A developer co-founder means cutting back on a significant expense.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 11, 2018

Social media is a virtual world that is filled with half bots, half real people,” said Rami Essaid, the founder of Distil Networks, a cybersecurity company that specializes in eradicating bot networks. You can’t take any tweet at face value. And not everything is what it seems.”.

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Marketing Software Review Social Media Audience 62

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

com ) is a Singapore-based daily deals site by social commerce startup Storepair , and revolves around the idea of using social networking and crowdsourcing to offer consumers amazing local and overseas experiences. All the deals are uniquely priced with an ending notation of ’89′ cents, hence the name of the site.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

We make a point of keeping our records updated in the major data-trackers tracking the VC industry, e.g., CB Insights , Crunchbase , Dow Jones , Mattermark , Palico , Preqin , Pitchbook , and ThomsonReuters , since they are a source of data to LPs and to potential co-investors interested in us. . Pitchbot.vc 3) Originate investments.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2020

No matter how talented you are, it doesn’t matter unless managers can see those talents and think of you as an invaluable employee, or a game-changing manager, or the person whose name is synonymous with success. Use the idea to kick-start your relationships with co-founders, investors, customers and business partners.

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Startup Technical Review Social Network Reputation 331

Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

That said, even renowned founders and investors like Paul Graham have made mistakes. Y Combinator - another company that Paul helped to co-found and that helps startups get funding, with particular emphasis given to those started by young, tech-savvy founders. The startup’s name? Sold to Yahoo! Pied Piper.

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Startup Silicon Valley Cofounder Non-Compete 80

Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet. In 1996, there was no social networking, no video, no search that worked, no RSS, and no Twitter to name a few.

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CTO Internet Illinois Cofounder 78

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 11, 2018

Social media is a virtual world that is filled with half bots, half real people,” said Rami Essaid, the founder of Distil Networks, a cybersecurity company that specializes in eradicating bot networks. You can’t take any tweet at face value. And not everything is what it seems.”.

Marketing 48

Marketing Software Review Social Media Audience 48

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2015

by Tom Britton, co-founder & CTO at SyndicateRoom.com. but will deep dive into specific aspects of your product, they will ask detailed questions about your business plans and how you will approach your target market, they may even mention potential competitors by name and how you plan to tackle them as competition.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

By Issie Lapowsky | Aug 6, 2010 Share ); Getty Related Articles The New Rules of Hiring Is It Legal To Use Social Network Data When Hiring? Instead, the takeaway message for recruiting is: play to your strengths (in Meebos case, its networking), be active, not passive, and get your name out there. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Transcript of Creating a Brand Name That Sticks written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He is a brand strategist speaker, founder of Sticky Branding and the author of Brand New Name: A Proven, Step-by-Step Process to Create an Unforgettable Brand Name. You know my brand name is Duct Tape Marketing.

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Naming Connecticut United States Small Business 46

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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Up and Running

JUNE 11, 2012

Amidst all the hype and media coverage of Facebook’s recent IPO and the rise of Pinterest, there is one powerful social network that you are probably a member of and not even using it to its full extent – LinkedIn. But according to LinkedIn’s co-founder Reid Hoffman, many of its users are not using it to its full potential.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

The story of Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg, or at least Hollywood’s version of it, should be familiar to anyone who’s seen The Social Network or spends more than five minutes each week surfing the Internet. The first name they came up with for the new magazine was Facts. Insomnia Cookies.

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Intellectual Property New York City Pennsylvania Cofounder 127

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2012

It’s hard to believe that the genius behind the co-creation of software giant Microsoft never finished college, but it’s clear he didn’t need his diploma to do big things. Sergey Brin is a co-founder of Google and one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world. Sergey Brin. John Mackey.

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grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Names redacted.) Unless your name is Mesmero the Magnificent, it’s probably not going to work on me. If you’re waiting for a technical co-founder to put up a landing page with signup form, you’re lazy. I just need a co-founder to web enable it!" Do you have a website up?

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