Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Today, the end of Communism in Eastern Europe seems so obvious, but in my home country of Romania, until the day Nicolae Ceausescu was shot dead, I thought he would rule forever. Three revolutionaries will replace the current IT dictators: Cloud , Mobile and Social. Public Enemy, Fight The Power. So what will become of IT?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

Last week I had the pleasure of giving a keynote in La Red Innova conference, speaking about mobile search and its impact on ecommerce. trillion GDP of Europe in total. Spain is growing also in terms of online and mobile penetration, albeit slowly: Following a surge in 2009, growth is continuing at less than 5% per year.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

But what shaped their world was coming of age with the internet, mobiles devices, and social media. It’s still early, but social scientists predict that educational technology, social networks, and streaming services will frame their world. The last two were the internet and mobile phones.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

Mobiles tell us where we are, and why we are there. Not being listed or ‘located’ via mobile is like not being listed in the white pages. Un-Social Networking: Martin Lindstrom of Brand Sense says we are suffering a little from digital emptiness. Forget the net – launch with mobile. It’s about being there.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Startups can submit their projects to Fing, which provides support to over 200 projects a year through events, programs, and access to a large network of resources. LeWeb , Europe's largest (and the world's second largest) Internet conference is held in Paris every December. Plyce : Feature-rich location-based social network.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Mobile payments. Square, Intuit, Google Wallet, Starbucks Mobile Card, Giftly. Mobile gaming. In Europe: Zin.gl, Badoo. Social travel and events. In Europe: BuyVip (acquired by Amazon), Privalia (Spain). Social Networks for groups. Israeli rep: Giftsproject. Israeli rep: Fiverr. Flash Sales.

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thenextweb.com

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Social Media. Sources: The Social Network Screenshot. Join TNW Social Media on: Follow @tnwsocialmedia. He loves everything related to tech startups, beautiful design and social media gossip. Murdochs Sun newspaper reportedly shuns paywall in favor of paid mobile apps and ads. Daily Dose. Design & Dev.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Scott Lahman , Zack Norman & Austin Murray were the three co-founders of JAMDAT, the most successful mobile 1.0 Sorry, moms.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

It is always so cool to run marketing campaigns in large homogenous markets (like Europe, Asia, or large chunks of the US). You've deployed five, six or 15 web analytics tools on your website/mobile app. For our Facebook ads we will measure CPC and Social CTR and Gender and all that good stuff. from those clicks.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2012

For example, there are five major markets where Facebook is not the top social network : China, Russia, South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. While China and Russia are both huge markets, it’s doubtful that their revenue per user will be equal to the revenue per user in Europe or the United States.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Instead of investors holding onto proprietary connections and introductions for their portfolio companies, these relationships are being displaced by the dominate social networks ( Facebook , Linkedin , Quora ). startupcto

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2012

Optimum Mobility Services. Next Lakshman Pasala from IIT KGP presented Optimum Mobility Services, a fleet routing and optimization solution for cab companies, their current validation segment, followed by logistics companies operating trucks, etc. Univect Education Solutions. Instead, he should turn his talents elsewhere.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

Booking.com is the unquestioned leader in online travel in Europe, and represents a substantial portion of TPG’s astounding $35B market capitalization. Booking.com was not always the online leader in Europe – in fact they were a disrupter stealing the flag from other large incumbents. But it didn’t play out that way.

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gigaom.com

JUNE 18, 2012

Earlier in June, two former Facebook employees who help create the SQL-like Hive interface for Hadoop while at the social network launched Qubole, a hosted version of Hive that runs on Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure. Social Networks. Cloud Computing News. Collaboration. By Derrick Harris. 4 Comments.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 6, 2009

By day I work in a small startup specializing in mobile software. company registration, bank accounts, accounting… I was new to all that, and the process turned out to be more drawn out and complicated that expected (I’m in Europe, so your mileage may vary!). Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. What’s the ARPU of a business on a social network? Next-Gen Networking. 2029 Stierlin Court. 1 Hacker Way.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The app obviously geolocalizes every info and integrates with Facebook and other social networks. this article: Dario Fornarelli: Tipsandtrip, un Taccuino Per i Viaggi Via Web e Mobile [.] The app will be a crowdsourced list of the best restaurants, shops, parks, beaches, B&Bs and city spots for tourists.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But if youre in the US for example, then your development cost will be anything from 5-10 times higher than offshoring to India or Eastern Europe. social network for sports fans! When you consider the question of whether to offshore your development, if you keep things local you’ll save on your travel budget.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

John Jantsch: And he’s coming to us today from the little country of Genovia, somewhere in Eastern Europe. John Jantsch: And the 70% of people that are visiting those sites on a mobile device today, that’s the whole screen. I think they’re going to start rolling out features to make that a social network.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Burnt out and spent, Ferris decided to go on a two-week vacation in Europe and delegated his work to a team of virtual assistants. In 2009, Mike Scanlin, owner of Born to Sell, an online investment program, outsourced programming work to Eastern Europe, and he estimates the move has saved him $500,000. Go though social network.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

For example, angel funding is more prevalent in the United States than in Europe. With the help social networking tools it has became much easier for start ups to venture in the competitive market. Understand the Investor Community It’s important to understand investor tendencies and trends of the market you’re targeting.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

My company’s CEO, Patrick Salyer, explains why multiple online personas make it imperative that companies offer social logins beyond Facebook Connect.). Sure, Facebook will almost always be the dominant player in share-of-logins, but we’ve seen the other players account for up to a combined 60% share of social logins.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

There hasn’t been such a full list of Israeli startups coming to Europe since Barcelona’s World Mobile Congress. Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. Betterview - Company Website. How do we do this?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others. While most of the social networks, cloud computing, web and mobile app companies we see today will fail, a few will literally remake our lives.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

This tool also includes basic social network analysis (building friend/follower information, twitter profiles etc]. Latest Social Media News. Today in Mobile. The Social Good Brief. LinkedIn Plans Mobile Ads This Year. Anti-Piracy Agreement ACTA Is Falling Apart in Europe. Mobile Lists.

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The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

Free mobile messaging and VoIP service provider Viber today made a slew of announcements , including reaching the milestone of 200 million users, the roll-out of Viber 3.0 How has the mobile messaging landscape evolved since then, both to your advantage and negatively? At the time mobile messaging was a novelty. Maybe someday.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

In the past 6 months we’ve heard from Dmitry Shapiro on the future of online video, Ian Rogers on the future music model, David Sacks on the future of social networking and Michael Crandell on where Cloud Computing is headed. Internet users in US – 225 million, mobile 260MM. Way ahead of the US on mobile gifting.

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gigaom.com

JUNE 18, 2012

On most publisher sites you see share buttons with the number of shares associated with each of the large social networks. Here’s a list of the different subsets of URLs that publishers tend to deploy: Mobile versions, which tend to use m.domain.com. Even worse, social networks do not agree on how to normalize a URL.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

is acquiring digital-video networking company BigBand Networks Inc. BigBand Networks, which has more than 200 customers in North America, Asia and Europe, provides broadband service providers with digital video networking solutions designed to make it easier to distribute, manage and monetize video. for about $158.1

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2011

Sean Parker described himself as a platform builder (Napster, Facbeook, Causes) and commented on how he was portrayed in the ‘Social Network’ movie. young entrepreneurs now develop for mobile first , not the desktop. This was his most successful book launch ever. Asleep or online.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Here is a list of the startups that will be taking place of the Tel Aviv Tech Tour: Fiddme a guide to the best dishes around you, a social network for foodies, a friend-finder, and lots of fun! The iStreamer by AllofMe.com is a new mobile application, specifically designed for Apple’s iPad.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 19, 2012

In addition, the rise of tablets and mobile devices will accelerate the growth by making the signature process ubiquitous. Facebook is your social network, LinkedIn your professional network and Docusign will be your identity network.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2011

Facebook Expands Credits Offers to Europe Via SupersonicAds – a huge deal for the Israeli startup, perhaps thanks to its UK office? Facebook users in Europe will soon have the opportunity to earn Facebook Credits by completing hard offers through the offer walls of social games.

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The Next Web

JUNE 17, 2012

I learned about initiatives like government-funded business incubator Startup Lisboa , Beta-i and the Lisbon Startup Pirates.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Network effects occur when increased usage of a good or service leads to an increase in its value, which in turn makes it more attractive and this leads to further increases in usage. Social networks such as Facebook or LinkedIn are a clear example of the power of this long-term advantage, as are two-sided marketplaces such as Airbnb or eBay.

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VC Cafe

JULY 11, 2011

event, following 14 similar ones in Israel, Turkey and Europe. CallApp – is an end to end call management platform and a mobile application that reinvents the way people communicate over the phone by making the call experience more social, productive, and fun. YellowBrck is a mobile app for moms and dads.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I like to outsource from Eastern Europe – something about their code that just seems more throughout and requires less hand holding. www.elance.com and hire from eastern europe. We’re a mobile development firm looking to increase new client sales. Focus on those core metrics and you should do fine. Any suggestions?

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