ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Dr. Said is a dentist himself and argued a good case for a network of dentists with special offers for uninsured consumers. Then Nirupama Mallavarupu from Summit, New Jersey, discussed PTA Portals, a platform for building niche social networks for private groups, starting with Parent-Teacher Associations.

Entrepreneur 116

Entrepreneur San Francisco Technical Review New Jersey 116

David Teten

JULY 25, 2011

The event featured 6 newly-minted FinTech Innovation grads (selected out of 90) showcasing their progress after 3 months of incubation. The opportunity in NY is clearly heating up, both literally and figuratively, as investors turned out in 100+ degree weather to hear about emerging technologies in the financial sector.

Software Review 114

Software Review New York City Technical Review Due Diligence 114

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

Angel Networks. Angel investors provide everything that startups need — from funding, mentorship, professional advice, and access to investors in their network. You can search for angel networks by area and platform type. Incubators and Accelerators. Professional Social Networking Sites. Crowdfunding Sites.

Private Equity 159

Private Equity Startup Incubator Social Network 159

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

First up, Priyanshu Harshavat, from Evanston, Illinois, presented Socioclean , a service for cleaning up your reputation on social networks. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here.

Illinois 114

Illinois Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Chicago 114

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

We made clear that this class wasn’t an incubator. JointBuy allows buyers to start a new deal on any available product and share the idea with others through existing social networking sites. We tried to weed out those that were unsure why they were there as well as those trying to build yet another fad of the week web site.

Lean 300

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 300

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them. When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups. More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles.

Angel Investor 84

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2012

Social food journal Burpple officially launched earlier this week: the iOS application – currently available on the App Store for free – is positioned as a way to remember, organize and explore your food moments with friends on the mobile phone. But if Singapore-based Burpple sounds similar to Foodspotting , it does.

Singapore 217

Singapore Silicon Valley Cofounder Social Network 217

YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2012

Social food journal Burpple officially launched earlier this week: the iOS application – currently available on the App Store for free – is positioned as a way to remember, organize and explore your food moments with friends on the mobile phone. But if Singapore-based Burpple sounds similar to Foodspotting , it does.

Singapore 197

Singapore Silicon Valley Cofounder Social Network 197

The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2019

Crowdify also has its own Start-Up Incubator and is uniquely positioned to advise the next generation of potential UK Unicorns (start-ups which reach a market valuation of $1bn). Experience; 0-60 agile innovation that start ups need; Relevancy to business, landscapes, networks & communities.

Marketing 76

Marketing Agile Social Network Valuation 76

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.

Advertising 116

Advertising SMS Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 116

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 31, 2013

Instead of relying on usual “submit a resume for different positions and wait for an interview call-up” way to land a dream job, a job seeker can instead tap on existing communities such as online social networks and respected thought leaders in their industries to recommend the right roles for them.

Singapore 147

Singapore Malaysia Incubator Angel Investor 147

YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2012

If children are our future and education is an enabler, then the classroom is the incubator that plays a critical role in determining how the future is being nurtured. 29% of teachers use online social networks, while 80% of college professors do so. (Click through for a larger image).

Incubator 194

Incubator Social Network Technology Mobile 194

View from Seed

APRIL 24, 2019

Considered an “old” technology & channel in the context of the rise of social networking, 2009 was seminal for the email marketing space. (Our NextView portfolio company, Attentive Mobile , provides a tech platform for these retailers to employ these text campaigns.).

SMS 207

SMS San Francisco Channel Dilution 207

mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Movies music myspace ONLINE VIDEO politics pop culture privacy Search small business social good social media social networking social networks software sports tech television trending tv twitter verizon video video games viral video web video Wordpress Yahoo youtube Join More Than 2.8

LLC 75

LLC Social Media Startup Philadelphia 75

mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Movies music myspace ONLINE VIDEO politics pop culture privacy Search small business social good social media social networking social networks software sports tech television trending tv twitter verizon video video games viral video web video Wordpress Yahoo youtube Join More Than 2.8

LLC 75

LLC Ruby Social Media Startup 75

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. The project was a little unexpected – creating customer cereal boxes called Obama-Os and Cap’n McCains, timely for the 2008 elections.

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Bankruptcy Southern California South Africa 97

mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Go BIG Network This site helps investors, startups, service providers, and advisors find each other. Cons: In order to contact investors and service providers outside of your personal network, you’ll need to pay a fee of either $49-$79 per month or $179 for a one-time use.

Coder 60

Coder Technical Review Social Media Technical Cofounder 60

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. Specialized alumni tech networks : Accelerate Yale (which had merged into it YaleFintech and Yale Tech), Yale Science & Engineering Association. Incubate non-Yalies. Everyone wanted to work in finance.

Affiliate 60

Affiliate Connecticut Programming Community 60

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

On April 16, I was in Mumbai doing a live 1M/1M event with TiE Mumbai and Indian Angel Network (IAN). We also had Pritam Roy present Gomolo.in , a social network and online hangout for movie lovers. It would also help him figure out the audience engagement model of how to make the social network compelling.

Networking 115

Networking Partner Entrepreneur Bootstrapping 115

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 19, 2012

TackThis ( www.tackthis.com ) allows businesses to set up a full e-commerce solution on any website or social network, and even lets them manage that online retail shop with a centralized inventory and customer management system. TackThis is incubated by NUS Enterprise.

Singapore 220

Singapore Small Business Cofounder Social Media 220

The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

He mentors young startups at Singapore Management University and True Incube Thailand , a 500 Startups Partner. Back when Facebook was still just for schools, some schools already had their own social networks. Instead of trying to market directly to students at those schools (“but we already have a social network!”)

Thailand 167

Thailand Social Network PPC Singapore 167

The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Los Angeles-based incubator Science is at it again, having launched a brand new company called TopFloor designed to change the way we shop online. ” TopFloor is a video-driven platform where anyone can engage with on their social network. Think of it like a rebooted version of QVC for the social web.

Los Angeles 118

Los Angeles Incubator Social Network Affiliate 118

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Our mobile app buzzed in your pocket when friends were near and ushered in a new wave of “ Ambient Social Networking ” companies. Finally – Sonar Media was born in an incubator. He says: the most detrimental aspect of the incubator … was … its facility as a crutch.

Incubator 116

Incubator Venture Capital Early Stage New York 116

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 6, 2012

Now with the Social Network movie promulgating this fear, I expect it will worsen. Those companies still incubating their offering can pivot before they launch, incorporating your best ideas and adding their own, releasing just months after you do. Don’t VCs do that? It’s silly, for two reasons.

Cofounder 237

Cofounder Incubator Social Network Business Model 237

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Before AngelList, investment dealflow was private and networks revolved around a few connected angels and VC?s. Since the angel network was created, transparent angel investing has exploded and entrepreneurs from any background can get funded. To my surprise, VC? Bryce Roberts , a partner at O?Reilly startupcto

Technical Review 50

Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Angel Investor 50

YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2019

It is important to have space where your idea can be tested, such as business incubators or hubs. Nowadays there is the advantage that you can have marketing for free through social networks so you do not have to pay for TV and billboards. Sustainable green startups in the civil sector too.

Florida 113

Florida Green Startup Incubator 113

Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

Yet this same network of connected people affects who gets funded, how startup teams form, and who gets hired. . Looking to create their accelerator/incubator, Wayne and seven other founders rented a Silicon Valley house together one summer. In ’05, social networking was not quite as prevalent as is it today.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley North Carolina Cofounder Entrepreneur 120

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

APRIL 28, 2011

Not testing out other a networks, started with admob and didn’t change it. Passed location to ad networks and saw more effective ad rev, but users were pissed as to why location was needed to search recipes. Mobile incubator lab. Mobile ad network. Word of mouth is a big influence for app discovery. Startup bank.

Portland 63

Portland Oregon Mobile Incubator 63

Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Cotter bucks the flavor-of-the-day entrepreneurial stereotype: the college dropout popularized by both our own Michael Dell and recently Mark Zuckerberg and the great movie The Social Network. Siete, which is just five years old, started out at SKU , our local CPG incubator, and it has been a monster return for them.

B2C 51

B2C Austin Cofounder IPO 51

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

GigaOM Structure aims tackle the challenge of understanding how to architect data centers, networks and applications along with the big questions emerging in computing and IT. The conference brings the top marketing, technology and social media professionals together to share their tips and tools on making the latest marketing trends work.

Las Vegas 165

Las Vegas North America Silicon Valley New York City 165

SiliconHills

JULY 18, 2012

She’s cofounder of Whit.Li, a startup focused on mining social networks to compile personality reports. Gillentine is also director of Startup Grind Austin, which has a meeting on July 26h featuring Isaac Barchas, the director of the Austin Technology Incubator at the [.].

Cofounder 63

Cofounder Incubator Startup Austin 63

VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

More and more incubators are popping up, students are participating in business plan competitions, and actively look to get involved with startups. 4) The concept of networking is new here. There’s an opportunity for incubators/micro seed funds to support the market. But that is now changing.

Spain 108

Spain Silicon Valley Brazil Europe 108

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. Corporate VCs open the door to their parent companies and are well networked in their industries. Corporate VC networks extend beyond their own parent companies. Mari Holds a B.A. So how do you get a warm intro?

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Balance Sheet Technical Review Portfolio 60

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. That being said, I do see problems with the conventional wisdom especially in the valley with your technical vision, which then creates economic problems.

Lean 168

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

The Telefonica-backed Wayra London incubator officially opened its doors last year, but its current intake of startups have only called it home for around seven months. In finding that solution, his team created iHelp – a community driven emergency network. It hopes to have a network of 20 million iHelp users in the next five years.

Croatia 147

Croatia Bulgaria Startup Cofounder 147