VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. Cell Buddy will be the world’s first Mobile Virtual Global Operator (MVGO). Brandsforce - Company Website.

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mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

Jobs Events Try Our New Social News App Welcome to Mashable! The danger with this type of marketing is the penchant for users to become annoyed due to the “creepy” nature of ads following them around. More Stories in Apps & Software. The server is slow, the templates are ugly, and it is impossible to write custom code.

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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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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

When making technical hires, we always reach out to our network of programmer friends and ask them to sit in on interviews and review resumes with us. Go Beyond the Code There are many super hackers out there (especially in the Bay Area). Jesse Davis , Entrustet. David Schnurman , Lawline.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Polling code must be open sourced , can’t have propriety code. Jill Tarter, Director of the Center for SETI Research – new turtle mascot, open source code, cloud services from amazon, telescopes. President of The Tech Museum.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

I’ve reviewed hundreds of startup pitches and I can tell you that everyone makes the same types of errors. Ignoring Your Faults You might have all sorts of shortcomings — it’s your first startup, you’re inexperienced, ignorant about how “sales&# works, you have buggy software, etc. It’s OK.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

This is particularly true in the fast-paced high-tech and software world, where only a small percentage of startups mature. If you’ve been operating as an LLC, review the dissolution requirements in your state’s LLCA (Limited Liability Company Act). The Social Good Brief. 9 Digital Ways to Become a Social Good Hero in 2012.

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LLC Technical Review Social Media Startup 68

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

With more than 40 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific news site reporting breaking web news, providing analysis of trends, reviewing new Web sites and services, and offering social media resources and guides. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

It also means that developers that choose to create HTML5 web apps for the desktop — like for the Google Chrome Web Store — can often use the same code when crafting an app for the iPad or for other tablets. Sponsored by Deutsche Telekom, Unify is published under a dual open source license (MIT and Apache version 2.0)

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Active software engineers probably get two offers a month or more. I was able to hire phenomenal software engineers and grow a strong team culture. Learn to write code yourself. Or even contribute to an open source project. I was lucky enough to have worked for Yahoo! YHOO ) in its second act.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. Invoice Place – Online billing software that lets you track invoices, quotes, receipts and more. Gliffy gliffy – Online diagramming and charting software.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

Jobs Events Try Our New Social News App Welcome to Mashable! More Stories in Apps & Software. social media = we were an advertising or public relations firm in 2010. Get people who know about IP address, HTML and its impact on ranking, QR codes, NFC and other 21st Century marketing tools. The Social Good Brief.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

This begs the question: how much time do users spend in Snapchat today compared to other social networks, and how will that number change over time? Global smartphone revenue is about $420B. Spiegel has repeatedly described Snap first as a camera company, not as an ephemeral social network.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. They’ve tried everything. The list goes on and on. Alcides Fonseca.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Most of the scripts that run the spreadsheets are “public,” meaning you can access them from the Tools + Script Gallery menu (this also means they were reviewed and approved by Google Spreadsheets team). Social media. Social media analytics. More Stories in Apps & Software. The Social Good Brief.

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Choosing Between Mobile and Native Apps One of the resounding themes for mobile software developers in 2011 is the debate between building a native app or building a mobile web app. Richard Rabins Co-Chairman Alpha Software, Inc. It has to continue to evolve to match against the native apps. But the webapps will prevail in the end.

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Mobile Web Social Media Software Review 90

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community. When we pivoted from fabulis to Fab, from gay social network to design, we made the decision within 10 days to focus exclusively on our new One Thing, and we set a rule that not one person on the team could still do the old thing.

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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.” They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Be succinct. Programmers love that.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

But Socially sharing through the multitude of networks is another way of getting to the customers to sign up for your launch. Another way is get behind the power blogs such as mashable, techcrunch and get them to write a review or do an interview for your solution. We have a beta page for a new social networking site.

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Pakistan Social Media Startup Stealth 94

Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

Un-Social Networking: Martin Lindstrom of Brand Sense says we are suffering a little from digital emptiness. Sure language has iterated, been redefined, shortened, coded… but the conversations are real and the more meaning and ideas are being exchanged. So the alternative of a global currency will emerge.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

For example, a lot of press releases and pitches that I receive around key holidays try to make the enclosed news sound more relevant due to the upcoming holiday. Open Source Lists. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Networking. Social Good. FriendFeed.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for 50 years with the same model, which was a model where all of the new computers, all the new technology, all the new software started out being sold for the highest prices to the biggest organizations. So originally the customer was the Department of Defense.

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