VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Brandsforce is a plug & play social media marketing platform that generates conversations, engagements and measurable actions on social networks. Cell Buddy has developed the only seamless, carrier grade solution, for low cost Voice calls, SMS and Internet, while abroad. Brandsforce - Company Website.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Founder of JackCards.com. people in India, 700k have cell phones with SMS, not smart phones, 66% of women do the work but receive 10% of income, 1% of property. In any case, the valley is small. I met 2-4 women whom I’ve met at other SV events. Some folks whom I met: Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. Current round: $2mm Series B from Tomorrow Ventures (Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google) and Lars Hinrichs (Xing founder). Co-Founders Michael Clark (ex-Photobucket), Geoffrey Arone (ex-DanceJam).

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The founders of Snapchat, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, are two such people. Between email, IM, SMS, Friendster, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, somewhere along the line, the norm became that the vast majority of your communication with your friends was recorded. Bobby Murphy (left) and Evan Spiegel (right).

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Founder of JackCards.com. people in India, 700k have cell phones with SMS, not smart phones, 66% of women do the work but receive 10% of income, 1% of property. In any case, the valley is small. I met 2-4 women whom I’ve met at other SV events. Some folks whom I met: Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California.

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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. SMS Slingshot: converging the digital world with a physical interaction [link] A great way to brand events around a city which is cool, a digital crossover and temporary. It’s about being there.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.” “The real winners here are going to be the seed funds and early stage VCs that can write a $1 million to $2 million check,” says AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Social networking. Social/Sharing. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network.

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The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

We had a chat with Viber founder and CEO Talmon Marco to go beyond the facts in the press release and see how the company is faring. Do you see Viber ever moving ‘up the stack’ and becoming a social network tying everything together, rather than a predominantly communications-focused service? Eventually.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Asymmetric – Before Twitter most social networks had “symmetric” relationships meaning that when somebody wanted to follow you, you had to follow them back in order for us to be connected. Or as founder Joe Fernandez recently told me, “we’re building the ‘PageRank’ for people.” Not so on Twitter. million followers).

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Rich and award-winning line of location-based applications for the end-users (VAS) • Maps and LBS APIs for developers as a CSP branded developers zone, enabling more apps in portal and increased usage of data, SMS and MMS. IPgallery’s products and solutions are deployed worldwide, including in Tier-1 service providers’ networks.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 27, 2012

SMS : If you are someone who does a lot of presentations – both online (webinars) and in person – using an SMS short code can be an effective way to grow your email list. In November, I contacted my friend Justin Mastrengelo who owns JA.TXT – an SMS marketing software application. I also mention the “Bonus.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Do you have a way to notify them by SMS or email when something notable happens? If the rating in the App Store is based on usage, I am sure those popular social networking applications are sure to be in the top and the hot seat always. Are they turning on their phone specifically to get your app? The observation sounds strange.

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