The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The Magento project is owned by eBay. Magento offers a good architectural framework for optimization and scaling, as well as a predictable architecture that makes the work of the IT team transparent to the business. There is the free Open Source edition built by the community. Retargeting Facebook to increase revenue.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

You can also use other big data tools such as Google Adwords, Amazon, eBay, and ClickBank. Place your keywords in your meta tags and web content. This tool will show you a list of other websites in the same niche. Here, you can identify their best keywords and determine the ones that relate to your site. Optimization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Where did Google, eBay, and Facebook come from? Tags: agile entrepreneur startup iterate launch early. Costs are low these days to set up a credible website, do some search engine optimization, start blogging, and start mining the social networks for interest. Think about it. The biggest advantage you have as a startup is to be agile.

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Agile Startup Social Network Software Developers 120

Up and Running

JULY 7, 2021

Other than professionally capturing photos of your own products and/or services, sponsoring user-generated content like tagged photos and unboxing videos are good practices for eCommerce brands. You can also ask your customers to submit and/or tag photos for all the purchases that they make in return for a discount or voucher.

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eCommerce Social Media Naming Technical Review 149

Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

When you tell it your brand terms (or just your brand name, in my case "avinash kaushik") and it churns through that social web data to provide you with something awesome… a tag cloud! The tag cloud above shows the emotional words use around mentions of me for a month's worth of time. Why is this cool?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

LastMinute.com (acquired by Travelocity), DealerTrack (NASDAQ: TRAK), Bill Me Later (acquired by eBay) and many others. Tags: VC Industry. Since 1982 our partners have invested in some of the leading global brands you know today including Starbucks, Costco and PetSmart. We manage nearly $1 billion. Self starter.

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Los Angeles Technical Review Due Diligence Venture Capital 290

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 31, 2010

Their brand alone is a powerful force you probably cannot overcome, e.g. "eBay is trustable" or "Apple is cool" or "IBM is safe."? Tags: Essays branding competition marketing positioning. What are more tips for defending, defeating, or just avoiding big companies? What are your experiences with meeting dinosaurs on the sales floor?

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Software Review Development Team Review Technical Review Software Developers 243

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

It languished under the ownership of eBay who didn’t have the right vision or structure to take Skype to the next level. The current executive team at eBay are not the ones that bought the company and thus were able to create a deal that brings the right incentives to spin-out Skype. Tags: Tech Market Analysis.

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Video Technical Review Advertising Distribution 292

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

I recently read the book eBoys about the founding of Benchmark Capital and the founding of eBay. Tags: Start-up Advice. I think the mind of an entrepreneur would be far more paranoid about yielding his great next idea than protecting his last 20% payout on the last one. They finally quit. I’m enjoying watching their progress.

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Entrepreneur CTO Hire South America Salary 293

deal architect

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I remembered what Maynard Webb, recounting his experience as CIO of eBay had written when he reviewed my book “ “CIOs have to. Tags: Burning Questions. A relatively new CIO asked me what top metricsI would recommend he measure his IT organization against.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2020

We call this “small luxury,” because it feels personal and delivers happiness, but doesn’t have the price tag of a Tesla. Look into installing a multichannel sales tool if you are not already using one, and explore the possibility of setting up a storefront on major marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, NewEgg, Rakuten, Jet, or Shopify.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Of course you’ve probably known of Meg as a business leader for many years, formerly as President and CEO of Hewlett Packard and the CEO of eBay before that, but since late 2018 she has been the CEO of Quibi (joining founder Jeffrey Katzenberg as the first employee). Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Mobile Video 244

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

That was true for Paypal cannibalizing eBay, YouTube and MySpace, and could still be true of Slide, Zynga, or RockYou – we’ll see. If you haven’t figured out the ecosystem, growth is useless – whether it is a acquisition-only viral loop, like Tagged, or an advertising blitz like countless dot-bombs.

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Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Unfortunately it seems that it was back-ordered due to strong demand with rumors of it selling for astronomical prices on eBay. Tags: SoCal Stuff Tech Market Analysis. To be redundant, “you manage what you measure&# and knowing my pace and distance every day made a huge difference to my improving my times (I finished in 3:57).

Technical Review 278

Technical Review Software Review Alabama Silicon Valley 278

deal architect

APRIL 24, 2010

The New Polymath, my upcoming book, got some nice blurbs this week from execs and authors - Maynard Webb, ex eBay; Ben Fried, Google; author Don Tapscott; Daniel Hamburger, Devry; Dave Duffield, Workday; Linda Avey, co-founder 23andMe; author Tom Davenport; Tags: The New Polymath.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Tags: Startup Advice. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! But I will learn from any deals that I want to do and am not able to do. I will embrace my losses.

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China Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review 333

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! But I will learn from any deals that I want to do and am not able to do.

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China Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review 328

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Mr. Thiel, while obviously talented as evidenced by both his founding and then selling PayPal to eBay for $1.5 Tags: Investing Jay Turo. Given that the estimated market value of Facebook is now worth $20 billion , that represents a 2,000x return in 6 years, qualifying it as surely one of the greatest investments of all time.

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Social Network Networking Technical Review Flash 72

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

There’s eBay and Etsy for buying/selling goods, AirBnB for short-term accommodations, and Uber for local transportation. user reviews) play an important role on these platforms, the price tags involved are typically low enough that customers are ready to deal with strangers over the web. While reputation mechanisms (i.e.

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Sales Cycle Lead Generation Web Portfolio 157

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2017

You can see it everywhere from Facebook’s suggestions on which people to tag in your photos to Siri who can call someone or find a restaurant for you. This is the concept behind product suggestions when you browse through Amazon, eBay, and similar platforms. The same is true when you see YouTube video recommendations.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Affiliate Advertising 191

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Or eBay / PayPal, Salesforce.com, Skype, etc. My own firm was involved with the sale of our portfolio company BillMeLater (an online credit company – think PayPal but for credit) to eBay for $1 billion in October 2008. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Portfolio Chad 280

Growthink Blog

AUGUST 15, 2010

And to eBay, whose core innovation was NOT the idea of online auctions as much as it was that a robust exchange of buyers and sellers could be attracted via pay-per-click advertising (see Google above). Tags: Investing Jay Turo.

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Technical Review Affiliate Aggregator Government 59

VC Cafe

JUNE 9, 2010

There’s also concerns that Israeli entrepreneurs don’t really understand consumer Internet for example, since they haven’t had much experience creating companies that scale (such as Google, eBay, Paypal). Tags: EIS Invest in Israel Israel NESTA Venture Capital Funds venture capital.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Government Technology 88

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 10, 2010

eBay converts these complementary desires into transactions. It's a "marketplace" in that they "create a market" in which sellers connect with buyers because eBay provides a sufficient quantity of both. Tags: How-To business-model marketing planning sales strategy. I won't spoil the surprise!).

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Business Model Finder SEO Bootstrapping 310

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 23, 2010

Today it was announced that eBay has acquired the RedLaser product from Occipital. Fortunately, eBay was very interested in the RedLaser product and the match worked extremely well for both parties. Tags: Uncategorized acquisition Boulder iphone occipital redlaser TechStars. Another TechStars company has been acquired.

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Bootstrapping Acquisition eCommerce Valuation 131

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

Tags: Start-up Advice. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! But I will learn from any deals that I want to do and am not able to do. I will embrace my losses. May they be few and far between.

Software Review 151

Software Review Technical Review Silicon Valley France 151

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Modern business, shaped by technology, is increasingly diverging to two nodes – on the one hand to great size quickly (see Google, Facebook, eBay, Twitter, et al.) Tags: Investing Jay Turo. Place Culture Above All Else. and on the other hand, to corporations of one , to the so-called Free Agent Nation.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In terms of price tag, the WC Vendors Pro edition will cost you $149. Just look at the sales of Amazon, EBay and Alibaba! Look how Alibaba gets to beat both EBay and Amazon in terms of profits. One thing to keep in mind is that WC Vendors Pro reverses the concept of commission in comparison to other plugins.

eCommerce 113

eCommerce Widget Open Source Search 113

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

It wasn’t before long that the plush toys were being listed for sale on eBay with a price tag of £200+! Compare the Market single handedly started the meerkat craze with the introduction of the cute, soft, rounded, bug-eyed plush toys!

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Japan Design Marketing Web 113

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

And then eBay bought them for $2.6 If Skype continues its growth eBay should at least see a return on its investment. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. This happened in Europe way before the US because to make any call out of the country was a paid call whereas in the US you had a lot of “all you can eat&# national plans.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Fralic was VP of Business Development at social bookmarking and tagging company del.icio.us Mr. Fralic was also one of the early employees and VP of Business Development at Half.com starting in 1999, and after the eBay acquisition, spent six years with eBay in a variety of entertainment, business development, and media roles.

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Portfolio New York Social Bookmarking Philadelphia 122

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

<< (tags: startups) [.] I can’t remember if they were in the Wired article or on the web site, but every once in a while I still go over to ebay and see if I can find any for sale. Reply Dan L , on July 13, 2009 at 7:32 pm Said: Interesting story. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Silicon Valley Product RSS California 122

OnlyOnce

MAY 31, 2012

Say things like “I thought of auctions online way before eBay!”. May be less fun at cocktail parties, but you’d want them on your team in a game of paintball or laser tag. Probably shouldn’t run businesses for more than a few months. Are likely to frustrate everyone around them and get bored themselves. Are problem solvers.

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Entrepreneur Hiring Partner 105

YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2013

Gain access to different customers from each of the big three (Amazon, eBay, and your own website). This could include physically counting inventory, keeping inventory clean and organized, tagging and labeling, etc. Sell on Multiple Channels. If your in-stock items are not on multiple markets, you are missing opportunities for sales.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 26, 2010

Late last week eBay announced that they had acquired the RedLaser product from Occipital. Tags: TechStars occipital pogoplug redlaser. He was also in my office last week when Dan and Jed Putterman (the Pogoplug co-founders) were there for a board meeting and they all had fun hanging out together.

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Colorado Cofounder New York Video 105

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Another telling example, is when back in 2011 eBay acquired a 2-year-old recommendation engine startup , Hunch for $80 million. If you combine this simple filtering method with meta-data (descriptions, product titles, tags, prices, etc.)

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

And Facebook Places dropped its Deals feature , becoming a location-tagging service for other content. Ebay and Amazon established the first peer-to-peer marketplaces, and they’re great — unless you’re selling something such as a service, a living space or a last-minute concert ticket that can’t make it by mail.

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