Start Up Blog

AUGUST 1, 2019

Only one of which, was on the list in 1999 – that being Microsoft. The digital era has provided inordinate consumer value through data mobility, entertainment on demand, social connection, digital connectivity, smart devices and ecommerce to name a few.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In India, two female journalists launched a mobile app to allow women to report harrassment and abuse, an issue in their hometown of Delhi and throughout the world. Applications such as Xtify , Local Response , and Placecast provided turnkey mobile solutions for retailers to target consumers.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2018

Basically, an app (or other software) uses GPS, RFID, Wi-Fi or cellular data to trigger a pre-programmed action when your mobile device enters or exits a virtual perimeter set up around a geographical location. We like to thinking of geo-fencing as extremely advanced mobile advertising based on physical location.

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Austin Startup

MAY 23, 2019

When I came to Austin in 1999, ATI was one of the only organizations supporting entrepreneurs in Texas. This means that they are working hard at finding solutions to big problems while taking the time to nurture ideas and make real change in the world in areas such as Healthcare, Mobility, Energy and Circular Economy.

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Berkonomics

MAY 4, 2023

And only one percent of these who had access also had mobile phones. Since 1999, the U.S. Consider this bit of recent history: In 1995, thirty-five million people used the Internet. That is six-tenths of one percent of the world’s population. Consider the numbers. Meanwhile, in the U.S., And then there is robotics.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Fewer US startups now than in 1999. 10 simple tips for improving mobile form UX | Econsultancy - crowdspring.co/1dYTT57. Eye-Catching Mobile App Interfaces with Sleek Gradient Effect | Designmodo - crowdspring.co/19hc82N. Can Angela and Tim Create Apple 3.0 — Or Not? LinkedIn - crowdspring.co/H47RXx. crowdspring.co/19IC5KK.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Paige Craig , currently the most prolific, under-dressed, and most eligible angel in Los Angeles, sourced a hot, young startup called Gendai Games (makers of GameSalad - a platform for rapid development of mobile games).

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2011

Creating a mobile application can be very time-consuming and expensive, which is why a lot of bloggers and blog sites don’t bother coming out with a mobile app of their own. “Latest (research) suggest that people will be using more apps and less mobile browsers to browse the net. And the best part?

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

Amidst all the recent talk of boom vs. bubble , there is a hue and cry that the current environment may smack of 1999. Let’s not forget that Time Magazine featured Alan Greenspan, Rob Rubin and Larry Summers on the cover in February 1999 with the headline: “The Committee to Save the World.”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Are you launching a mobile application? My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). It’s not an absolute requirement for me that you have domain experience but if you do it’s a HUGE plus. I’ll always point out when I am.).

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

Client-server has moved to the cloud (dramatically decreasing the cost of software development and deployment), and mobile apps are everywhere. Whereas I may have seen a dozen companies in 1999 with a point solution in a particular area, now I see multiples.

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Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

As an investor, I am also bullish about the innovation wave already in its early innings around mobility and autonomy. Adaptive cruise control –> Mitsubishi & Toyota developed LIDAR systems in early ’90s, Mercedes first launched radar systems in 1999).

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

billion, or $100 billion more than Exxon Mobil, making it the most valuable company in the world. We started Coremetrics in 1999 selling to dot-coms. We all know the famous story of Apple, which at one point kicked out its co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs. Today Apple is worth $510.96 Apple’s had several near-death experiences.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Before this, it was housed, since inception in 1999, within the walls of ATI, where the Wi-Fi Alliance and ATI built a unique, collaborative relationship. The organization was incorporated in 1999 when a number of visionary companies realized the tremendous opportunity for compatible wireless networking connectivity around the world.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Or will the convergence of content, internet, mobile applications, games and social media be the onrushing asteroids that will soon destroy the movie dinosaurs? In 1999, Lee joined the Silicon Valley new media content contingent as an Internet-company CEO, and has since founded two innovative Los Angeles media companies.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Nick Hughes founded M-KOPA, a firm that sells solar power services with a mobile payments system. He has extensive experience working in Kenya’s tech industry, having founded Wananchi Online in 1999. Barnwell’s leadership means that few others have a more comprehensive view of the city’s potential as a startup hub.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The video above shows Billie Holiday (one of my favorite singers) singing “Strange Fruit”, a song that Time manazine named, in 1999, the “song of the century” The song is a protest against racism. Mobile Advertising: Twitter Sales Are Double That Of Facebook In A Google-Ruled, $2.6B I’ll take a gigabit to go.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 30, 2019

In an experiment conducted to study the effects of product expectations on subjective usability ratings, participants read a positive or a negative product review for a novel mobile device before a usability test. The control group read nothing. The device used in the study. ZMET Technique In Marketing Research from Taylan Demirkaya.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm. [link] Terence Donnelly. A lot has changed.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2014

NCR , the nation’s largest provider of POS terminals, has expressed excitement for Apple Pay’s features, and plans to enable integration through traditional, POS systems, as well as m-commerce channels via mobile applications. She graduated from the University of Tulsa in 1999.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. m-Via does financial remittances using mobile phones for people from the US to Mexico. Turn Your Organization Inside Out. This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. In the first 4 years of running BuildOnline we were an “Outside In&# organization.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Fintech businesses have been thriving in Brazil in the last 10 years as more and more people have access to internet and cheap smartphones that give them access to mobile payment apps. Russia's GDP grew exponentially between 1999 and 2008, driven mostly by oil exports as well as a surge in oil prices.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 11, 2012

Revenues from mobile are an important part of Facebook’s growth going forward and photo sharing on their mobile app is mediocre at best. I think that is the difference between 1999 and today. 1bn values Instagram at $33 per user, which compares with $118 on Facebook (assuming a $100bn IPO).

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

By way of anecdote, from the time Dave Lavinsky and I founded Growthink in 1999 through 2008, more than 95% of our firm’s clients and investors were U.S. Senate studying Chinese technocrats to the simple reality that the Internet and mobile phones make it crystal-clear to all who is winning and losing in the world (see N.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 10, 2010

I went to the RWW Mobile Summit last Friday where in the true unconference style the attendees defined the agenda and developed the conference content at the day transpired. Interestingly, from my point of view, there was very little discussion about hardware platforms, a traditional point of much debate in the mobile industry.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

In 1999, David Weinberger, a technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , wrote, “Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there’s a piece of software that loves us for who we are.” But personalization is on the rise.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 22, 2017

And only one percent of these who had access also had mobile phones. Since 1999, the U.S. This time they are aided by tail winds brought on by the rapid spread of access to the Internet. In 1995, thirty-five million people used the Internet. That is six-tenths of one percent of the world’s population. Meanwhile, in the U.S.,

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. Pursue Global Markets. If you don’t have a business that can scale globally, then either don’t bother or just content yourself with staying small.

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The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 9, 2010

But this morning I read a Dallas Business Journal article that I found amusing: A new accelerator is planning to invest $200,000 and provide up to 45,000 square feet of office space to about 10 mobile app startups in exchange for 15-20% equity in each startup. (a) How much office space does a 2-3 person mobile app startup really need?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

Another important project was launched in 1999 at the UC Berkeley which has arguably become the most famous example of the volunteer computing model — the SETI@home program (if there’s a “@home” suffix in the name of a project it means that it involves exclusively home computers).

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. eBay is likely the most efficient “accelerator” to have existed to date.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

The collapse of the Internet bubble was not kind to us and by 2005 it was clear that our second fund – raised in 1999 – was a disaster, and our third fund – raised in 2000 – was off to a very rocky start. I remember a meeting with the Microsoft Mobile 6.0 They ignored us.

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 11, 2021

1999 wasn’t the dark ages, but it feels like a different millennium in terms of what it’s like to start a technology company from scratch. Confidence in all of those areas means large portions of our day and brain space are freed up to focus on the actual construction of the business without worrying if we’re doing things right or wrong.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

Since we’re a mobile app company we wanted a product name that was short, easily remembered, non-controversial and at least somewhat descriptive of the service. When filing for incorporation ATLAS Technologies was already taken, so Mobile was added since that’s our focus. Thanks to Steve Wood, ATLAS Mobile Technologies. #3

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Seth and I worked together on ServiceMagic in the 1999 – 2004 time frame (IAC acquired it in 2004 for $180m) so we had a deep understanding of how a heavily metric-based buy/sell marketplace worked. Two years ago we probably wouldn’t have considered Rover.com as it would have fallen outside our active themes.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Mr. Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Users leave messages for each other through BlockChalk mobile app. Mobile gifting service. Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas. Developer of Appsaurus , a mobile app recommendation engine. More importantly, if you think you want to go down the non-VC route Ryan would be a great resource to contact. __. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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