Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

So without further delay: Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile. Dan Rowinski – Boston based writer for Read Write Web.

Boston 71

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Arduino and other open source hardware platforms are reducing costs in the same way open source software reduced costs for web companies. A number of factors are combining that enable faster product iteration in hardware. 3D printing is reducing the cost of prototyping.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. How can accelerating portfolio company value be aided by use of software?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. Cell Buddy will be the world’s first Mobile Virtual Global Operator (MVGO).

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

While the last two decades have brought a wealth of exciting Internet developments, I’ve been saddened to see what was once a messy web of p2p connections become increasingly domesticated into walled gardens ruled by a small handful of megacorporations. . 3) The Future of Human Organization (DAOs and Global Hive Mind).

Mexico 67

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. Because people live, shop, and buy in real time, Monetate products enable e-commerce web sites to market in real time. One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications.

Part-Time VPE 92

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

One other firm that doesn’t always get a lot of popular acclaim but has a ton of operational expertise & widely global reach is Rocket Internet. Scaling Up & Out: The Valley is Flat (and Global). And of course then there is our own fund, 500 Startups. Why should VCs be any different?

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Ceedo Technologies – Founded in 2005, Ceedo AppCenter allows fixed and mobile operators to deliver PC software applications over the web to the subscriber’s desktop, to manage those applications remotely and us the platform to provide additional services direct to the PC.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Amazon Web Services. Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

billion mobile phones worldwide; within five years almost all of them will be more fully featured “smart&# phones offering better access to the web. Music distribution—the largest music distributor in the world is a technology company, Apple; its largest potential threat, Spotify, is a software company. There are currently 4.5

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Valuation Internet 76

YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2013

. “Our unique approach to cloud allows our customers to choose the best possible solutions to address their needs, at their own pace, and in a way that makes sense for their business,” explains John Mansfield, executive vice president, Global Solutions Strategy and Development, Hitachi Data Systems.

Cloud 140

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Collaboration & Workgroups Homecourt – Homecourt is a Web-based collaboration tool. WorkflowPerfect – A Web-based business process tool that facilitates collaboration. 280Slides – A free online presentation software that allows you to import existing documents, download to PowerPoint, publish to the Web and more.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Web Design/Tech Services.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

on a global stage) and specifically the Bay Area (within the U.S.) Now that everyone knows the stakes of a Facebook-like outcome, there’s more money looking to fund and fuel web-scale network-effect businesses. I am expecting a downturn at some point. Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021.

IPO 76

IPO Private Equity Valuation Acquisition 76

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

My firm, atCommunications, LLC—a Chicago-based Web development and digital marketing agency—is this year celebrating its 20th year in business! It’s a repeatable model that we’ve been able to apply globally to everything from autonomous vehicles to drug discovery. 2- Raise and support our family on our own terms.

Entrepreneur 63

Entrepreneur Ireland LLC Kansas 63

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Today I took a sales team from a portfolio company to meet with a couple of senior IT executives at a major retail company. Towards the end of the meeting, it started to become quite clear to me the effect that Google and the web has had on IT to date and where it was going.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

the rise of CleanTech, and the next wave of web applications and services, with a hint to the potential of the baby boomers. The idea is that all your personal data captured when you browse and transact on the web today is held in silos (Amazon, Netflix, Google.) Portfolio. (3). Global warming: a plague for humanity?

Software Review 48

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online.wsj.com

MARCH 4, 2013

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. What countrys GDP is the size of the global app economy? Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law.

Software Review 45

Software Review Technical Review Advertising Naming 45

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Web Design. Above you see the distribution among the top 100 grossing e-commerce websites in regards to the number of checkout steps they have. No Web convention for a checkout process exists. Portfolio Design Study: Design Patterns. Newsletter. JavaScript. Techniques. Typography. Inspiration. Responsive. Design Patterns.

Design 98

Design Software Review HTML Technical Review 98

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 31, 2011

No matter what you are involved with today, you can easily establish a niche website to add yet another passive stream of income to your portfolio and further diversify your risk across several income baskets. The results will show you various attributes, including monthly local and global search volume for various relevant keywords.

HTML 108

HTML Social Bookmarking Affiliate Engineer 108

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Web Designer (Req. WSJ Web Slice.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

. “With the establishment of the new R&D center, we will be in a better position to build a close relationship with the Israeli technology community and identify new technologies that could become part of our portfolio,&# said GE Global Research VP for Advanced Technologies Michael Idelchik. for about $418 million.

Balance Sheet 90

Balance Sheet Acquisition Africa 90

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a long time, but I needed the time to digest all the other great posts on the topics by other investors, and to analyze specific portfolio data from Haystack over the last five years. Global and Local. Well, that time has finally come. I have been reading Fred’s blog AVC for about a decade now.

San Francisco 116

San Francisco Silicon Valley Seattle Venture Capital 116

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. methodologies - in other words, don't invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On

Bootstrapping 114

Bootstrapping Marketing Angel Investor Silicon Valley 114

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

If you want the site to translate ancient Arabic poetry to Spanish to increase global tolerance, just say, “Translate paragraphs from Arabic to Spanish.” trav (2010-06-19) # This is GPS for would-be web entrepreneurs lost in a sea of ideas with no sailors to steer their imaginary ship. Be succinct. Programmers love that.

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

Venture Chronicles

MAY 8, 2013

With the work I did on plans and pricing, later enhanced and executed by other teams in the company, we were able to position to the market a consolidated portfolio of services that could be sold to SMB, mid-market, and large enterprise companies all off the same product platform. Right up my alley.

Cloud 65

Cloud Leadership America Analytics 65

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

3GVision is the global leader in mobile barcode services that use the camera phone to scan barcodes. These results are then relayed back in real time to the program manager in an easily understandable and actionable dash board format, via a secure web platform that offers wide flexibility in data analysis and report generation.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

BeyondVC

JANUARY 29, 2007

I went out to dinner a couple weeks ago with a few key executives at a portfolio company and as we started talking about future product direction, it seemed that we all had different ideas of where the company should go. Seeing some confusion I tried to get us focused back on the basics when I asked the team what our vision was.

Differentiation 60

Differentiation Video Viral Algorithm 60

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

I did not want them to make the mistake of trying to achieve revolution at the end of the keynote, rather I wanted to give them a path to achieving a global maxima. For example, checkout my list here: Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business. It is hard to optimize for the entire portfolio.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics Technical Review Channel 60

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. Alexia Tsotsis: Let’s see, what about other companies that aren’t in your portfolio? Marc Andreessen: Yeah, exactly! Exactly right!

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Too much emphasis was on Averages (remember averages suck, distributions are better ). That last bit I added above, Human, has meant many different things over the evolution of the web. For most of you, Login-ID might just be an account someone created on the web or a email address that someone used to sign up for your mailing list.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Acquisition Naming 60

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

I remember we were trying to translate those documents onto the web as fast as we could, and teach our volunteers how to use them. It was really myself and my boss, who was our portfolio manager. My $30 a month web hosting was crashing because of it. I remember we had volunteers manning a hotline, as parents were calling in.

California 60

California Silicon Valley Framework China 60

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

I wonder what the distribution looks like? While another post, Global Views on Morality: Homosexuality , has 72 Likes and 40 Shares. Now you have excellent context for making smarter decisions about the full-value of each acquisition channel in your portfolio. Is that what we are solving for? How will our business survive?

Metrics 159

Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 159

Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

This metric has been in every tool since we started torturing web server logs to measure hits (!). The web is littered with examples of this awfulness. If the web analytics dashboard prominently measured Visitor Loyalty, would they still create link pukes? of Search Traffic vs. Share of Global Search Volume. And no, Ms.

Metrics 152

Metrics Analytics Search Channel 152

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

An example is: "We should add these 80 keywords to our PPC portfolio with a max bid of $14." Most companies hire a Web Analyst, Sr. Digital Analyst, Web Analysis Guru, Digital Marketing Analyst, so on and so forth. Bonus : Kill Useless Web Metrics: Apply The "Three Layers Of So What" Test.

Analytics 140

Analytics Web Metrics DC 140