Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2010

About three years ago I attended a Web 2.0 This was before the great recession, but in the middle of the explosion of web apps and social media. One thing that came up repeatedly, then, was the impact of steeply declining web development costs on professional investment. But entrepreneurs, meanwhile, were looking for a lot less.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

There’s a dilemma faced by entrepreneurs and marketers alike: content marketing saturation. It could mean syndicating an interview podcast, writing new blog posts on a weekly basis, or distributing eBook tutorials on important topics. Content Marketing Basics. This is exceptionally powerful because of the cost-to-benefit ratio.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 11, 2020

Against this… This story continues at The Next Web. Deeply entrenched cultural expectations mean that women are more likely to stay at home. And when they do work, it is mainly on an informal basis, without the luxury of secured wages and contracts.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs what fledging tech startups should be looking for in a CTO hire to ensure founders get the right person for the job.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

A marketer should attempt a combination of writing on a personal blog, writing for an employer’s blog and for third-party publications through guest blogging and syndication to get the most reach. Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion How-To''s' Important question: What can I do for you? Keep it #reasonable please.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″ ″ is popularized by Tim O’Reilly (the first Web 2.0 Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2019

Search engines like Google are the biggest conduit for discovery on the web; if you can get higher rankings for queries relevant to your target audience, you’ll get more traffic, and therefore generate more revenue. Every startup entrepreneur should consider investing at least some time and money into the strategy. A Briefer on SEO.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Most entrepreneurs are passionate about what they do, and they’re happy to work on their businesses morning, noon, and night, but there comes a point where it’s just too much! Never forget that everyone needs a personal life, even successful entrepreneurs! Thanks to Jeannette De Beauvoir of Customline Wordware.

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Pascal's View

JULY 9, 2017

Andrew Krowne and I recently co-wrote an article in Tech Crunch , Why SAFE Notes Are Not Safe for Entrepreneurs. At its core, this issue points to the lack of understanding about the importance of post-money valuation by both entrepreneurs and investors. Many entrepreneurs lose track of what they have been cooking up in the cap table.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

Establishing a presence on the web was probably one of the first things you set up, after your logo and branding strategy. In 2008, famed digital trends and internet analyst Mary Meeker predicted that mobile web traffic would overtake desktop traffic by 2014. It’s a given by this point that your business should have a website.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 23, 2014

In an effort to experiment with a different approach, we recently led an AngelList syndicated investment in one potential search challenger, a Kansas City based startup called Leap.it who is taking a different approach based on the belief that machine-based algorithms can only get you so far. Brad Feld – Entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Web Summit. Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, 1: You clearly haven’t persuaded the entrepreneurs that you are value-add to their deal. And there’s conferences. I don’t.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

I just reviewed the many companies who recently raised venture capital with an eye towards those that are offering products and services that could benefit other entrepreneurs and business owners. It enables merchants to sell their products anywhere by syndicating goods to multiple marketplaces. Ixtens ( [link] ) raised $4.6

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

The bulk of the patents they believe Facebook is infringing pertain to things like A) display & targeting of online ads, B) online privacy, C) personalization of a user’s web experience, D) general online messaging (Yahoo! Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. My layman’s reading is that Yahoo!’s

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Founder and CEO of Appsbar , Scott Hirsch, is a noted entrepreneur and expert in mobile marketing. Scott pioneered many of the most utilized concepts in online media including opt-in data collection, email to postal data appending, affiliate marketing, web syndication, internet reality shows and internet pay per view.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

Their business model was to provide retailers with a new interface for shopping for soft goods — something that hasn’t changed a whole lot since Web 1.0. I helped introduce the company to various angels and lead the effort to form a syndicate for their fund-raising round. Modista had built Shopping 2.0.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 23, 2014

In an effort to experiment with a different approach, we recently led an AngelList syndicated investment in one potential search challenger, a Kansas City based startup called Leap.it who is taking a different approach based on the belief that machine-based algorithms can only get you so far. Brad Feld – Entrepreneur.

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Search Kansas City Kansas Syndicate 73

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form. Tags: entrepreneurs startups. Another alternative was added a couple of years ago to mitigate the problem of people clicking just to get paid (click fraud). Keyword research and budget forecasting.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2015

Managing third-party reviews can get a little twisted if you do not have an automated services like Yotpo , which will syndicate all reviews in one dashboard and give you a chance to monitor and reply them instantaneously. I Have a Web Site, What Else Should I be Doing Online 2 This post is one in a series of five guest.

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Genuine VC

MAY 1, 2014

Back in those Web 1.0 In the intervening years while I pursued a career investing in startups rather than creating them, Josh continued as an entrepreneur starting a handful of companies including early social networking site Sconex, successfully sold to Alloy Media.

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Agile VC

MAY 21, 2012

For the last 5-7 years the universe of potential acquirers web-based businesses has been fairly concentrated. were fairly active a few years ago though neither is as active today and big media conglomerates like Disney are fairly sporadic as they embrace web-based media. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Further down the scale are the regional events that the organizations put on, which usually combine regional investment syndication with classes and tutorials. The group’s respective web sites list these events. A calendar of many of these is available from the NVCA web site: NVCA and Industry Events. Venture Capitalists.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

No matter how you look at it – bandwidth consumption, number of viewers per hour, virality – online video has taken over the Web. Entrepreneur Social Media Analysis and Opinion' Yuval Brener is CEO of Carambo.la , an interactive video enrichment platform. billion online videos before the day ends !

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Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Over a year ago Eric and I were chatting at a NextView-organized entrepreneur event where he shared the concept of what has now become Renoviso. We’re joined in the round by RRE, BOSS Syndicates, NextGen, and awesome strategic angels like Niraj Shah (CEO of Wayfair) and Fabrice Grinda. Today Renoviso is announcing their $1.4M

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

start-up databases/networks like CrunchBase and AngelList ) has led to unparalleled access to investment capital as more seed funds, angels, and syndicates emerge on the scene. While we greatly appreciate these introductions from fellow VCs and entrepreneurs (who are great curators in their own right), inbound leads are inherently reactive.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

When Cameron Koczon introduced me to the company, he said they had the “best starting web team he’s ever seen.” As Mandy puts it “what you see is what you get” “is an assumption that’s no longer valid: on a web with hundreds of. mention time-shifting and syndication services — “what you get” is no. He wasn’t overselling either.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! Then came RSS ( Really Simple Syndication ) widely credited to Dave Winer for driving the spec & adoption. We visited portals or the handful of websites that we could remember.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 22, 2013

Editors Note: This is syndicated guest post by Walter Chen , co-founder of iDoneThis, an easy way for your team to sync up on its daily progress. Entrepreneur Insider Analysis and Opinion' Today, the competition for top tech talent is as fierce as it’s ever been, and without a high-performing team, it’s tough to survive.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

It was as much in reaction to my getting blank stares from entrepreneurs when I asked that question as it was for me to better understand the problem itself. Retail or end user web sites do not even receive limited notice without being discovered through a real marketing program, aimed at finding the flywheel effect (the moment.

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The Next Web

APRIL 27, 2020

On… This story continues at The Next Web. In a recent study, funded by the UK government, we found evidence that participating in one particular accelerator (which will remain anonymous) was associated with an increase in business survival rates, investment raised, and growth in the number of people employed.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. The success of Serial, inspired a new wave of entrepreneurs. The third wave of podcasting. Podcasts have been around for some time.

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

Rather these firms know that there are countless bright, hard-working entrepreneurs out there thinking 24/7 about the next big thing and so they remain open to these innovative ideas even if the firm hasn’t previously formed a specific investment thesis about that space. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

In indubitably, the project will be saddled with a set of business analysts whose richest experience with an advanced system has been to browse some web pages or order something online. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Hollywood writers and producers were jumping ship to create their own indie web series. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. A lot of people talked about the rise of UGC and how it might displace a large amount of professionally produced video content (TV shows and movies). Content was no longer king.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Each has a process in place to accept applications or recommendations for investment into new companies, and to review these and make decisions based upon their exploration, previous experience in the field, knowledge of the company or industry, or about individual entrepreneurs. Some can supply more when syndicating with other such groups.

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