ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

When I came to Paris in 2006, I had a well-developed idea for a startup and nothing else. In that time, I've discovered that the startup scene is infused with passion, energy and a strong spirit of collaboration. Pamela Poole is a blogger, translator and tech writer, and founder of Francophilia.com , a social startup for Francophiles.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

Betancourt Lopez put together a group of investors, including Félix Ruiz and Hugo Arévalo, who were the founders of Tuenti, a social networking app. The company is also launching new products, including contact lenses and prescription eyewear as it looks to expand to the Americas, Australia and throughout Europe.

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thenextweb.com

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Social Media. How to get beta signups for your startup in 9 steps. The important thing to remember is: Finding great beta testers is key to your startup’s success. Follow these steps below to get beta testers for your startup, all while building your brand. #1 4 Reach out to complimentary (not competing) startups.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 22, 2019

When you check the Hofstede model, Northern European countries score high on individualism, but Southern Europe is strong on collectivism. Self-development is a great angle for a marketing campaign in Northern Europe, but not in Spain, which is considered a collectivist culture. Just act normal, but not everywhere! Use local channels.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Before AngelList, investment dealflow was private and networks revolved around a few connected angels and VC? Since the angel network was created, transparent angel investing has exploded and entrepreneurs from any background can get funded. Reilly Tech Ventures, was so concerned about the network that he deleted his AngelList account.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

First up today was John Boyd with MeetingWave , a social media platform that caters to university alumni associations and addresses the challenge of helping them create walled-garden professional and social networking groups under their own brand, as opposed to groups within Facebook or LinkedIn.

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

So, should people who can’t write code do a startup? The process of iteration is far easier if you, the person with the idea, can actually code it and that’s what ultimately makes a startup turn into a successful business: iterating to get to product/market fit. Enterprise. CrunchBase. Hot topics. Editor’s Picks. Disrupt NYC.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

Betancourt Lopez put together a group of investors, including Félix Ruiz and Hugo Arévalo, who were the founders of Tuenti, a social networking app. The company is also launching new products, including contact lenses and prescription eyewear as it looks to expand to the Americas, Australia and throughout Europe.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

With over 1,300 registrants, about 30 speakers and 20 startups from Latin America competing on a €100K Euros prize, it’s one of the biggest entrepreneurship events of the year. trillion GDP of Europe in total. One example of the latter is Hub Madrid , which is currently hosting about 10 startups.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JULY 18, 2011

The hackathon follows a similar format of a Startup Weekend, Friday night – networking, idea pitches, some teams form, Saturday – teams done forming, hack hack hack, and Sunday - hack, submit, present your hack. Before the weekend, all the attendees can create profiles on CrowdVine.com, a social network for events.

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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. For those of us that have been working in the startup and technology space for at least the past 10 years, these addresses mean two things.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

If you’ve taken the roller coaster ride that is a startup – you know what I’m talking about. The truth is that in my experience very, very few people really enjoy the “pure&# startup environment: months with no salary, months with no live product and lots of trial, error & rejection. It’s addicting. 8 beers that night.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Alley Insider, one of my favorite tech blogs, published an interesting post yesterday, titled “ If We Hear About Any More Startups Like These, We’ll Scream “, listing some of the latest startup trends in idea buckets. So, for all of you saying I want to start a startup but [insert your own reason here] (i.e.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

Un-Social Networking: Martin Lindstrom of Brand Sense says we are suffering a little from digital emptiness. People are doing small scale, networked and highly responsive activities. Often known as Startup Camps. With a social bent. Generation D don’t ‘network’. It’s about being there.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Over the next 5-6 posts I’ll outline the process which I’ve now followed at several corporates and which I’ve honed to work with my own startup, Aroxo. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Content which may be perfectly acceptable in the USA or Europe may cause offence in other parts of the world. Use local affiliate networks Online affiliate marketing is a well-established sales channel for many businesses. Apart from the large global affiliate networks, there are many others operating solely within regional markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

If your startup is looking for an angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. In addition, they serve as a jobs available site for 24,000 startups.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

As a startup hub, Amsterdam grabs the same amount of attention as the girl with braces at the high school dance. So is the Dutch tech startup story sold short? We are the most active Twitter country in the world (measured by tweets per account) and the third most socially networked. Not in my view. Serious talent.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

If you’ve taken the roller coaster ride that is a startup – you know what I’m talking about. The truth is that in my experience very, very few people really enjoy the “pure&# startup environment: months with no salary, months with no live product and lots of trial, error & rejection. It’s addicting. 8 beers that night.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. By day I work in a small startup specializing in mobile software. Thomas: Blogging, social networks and Adwords have been most effective for me so far. Network with other entrepreneurs. Thanks for taking the time to appear in the Spotlight.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Why do startups?

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gigaom.com

JUNE 18, 2012

On Monday, former Facebookers Eric Frenkiel and Nikita Shamgunov (who also spent six years as a senior engineer on Microsoft SQL Server) launched a startup called MemSQL that seeks to speed relational databases by taking a page out of the Facebook playbook. MemSQL is the second data-focused startup with Facebook roots to launch this month.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home RSS About Contact Advertise Partners How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. Entrepreneurs, which by definition are stubborn entities are therefore finding creative and cheap ways to bootstrap their startups. Tipsandtrip was born from an idea of social media consultant Juliette Bellavita and Blogo.it TheStartup.eu

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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. And normally the rest of the team are young & inexperienced because that’s all the startup could afford to bring on. I could go on & on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

If your startup is looking for an Angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of Angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. More than 200,000 startups have already used the platform to connect with 45,000 investors. New England Investment Network. Or does it? Keiretsu Forum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

If your startup is looking for an angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. In addition, they serve as a jobs available site for 24,000 startups.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re a startup entrepreneur, you risk facing a competitive disadvantage if you wait too long to expand your operations. Clearly Define Your Business Model While this may sound like a trivial task, young startups often have an exciting and innovative product, but no real plan for monetizing it. in place before you expand.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. I love startups. Here’s my high-level approach for startups. No, I have many ideas.

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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. The UK is Israel’s second largest export market following the US, but Israeli startups often ‘forget Europe’ when it comes to Internationalizing their product. How do we do this?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

If your startup is looking for an angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. In addition, they serve as a jobs available site for 24,000 startups.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

If your startup is looking for an Angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of Angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. It boasts more than 1,000 member-managed groups and VCs, with 40,000 investors, and over 1,800 startups funded in the last 12 months. New England Investment Network.

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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. They understood the ubiquity, pervasiveness and ultimate profitability of these startups and doubled-down on their investments. My closing arguments are below.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. And the great ideas that became todays successful tech startups dwarf anything that had been done to that point. Nonetheless, my first startup was a tool for college students from elite colleges to create resumes and help them find jobs. Great post!

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2014

They said: “Good training for the work environment in Europe.”. Of course, if you wanted to cheat, you could always go with celebrity endorsement agency like CelebExperts who reports over 60% of their client base being startups & emerging businesses. Gigya.com (Review plugin that uses social network login vs standard login.

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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. Latest Startups News. The Social Good Brief. Pinterest: Everything You Wanted to Know About 2012′s Hottest Startup [INFOGRAPHIC]. Social Media Lists.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

COMMUNICATIONS GIANT ARRIS GROUP BUYS ISRAEL’S BIGBAND NETWORKS FOR $158 MLN. is acquiring digital-video networking company BigBand Networks Inc. Waze’s free mobile application provides a social network where drivers interact, reporting on road conditions. Communications-equipment maker Arris Group Inc.

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