The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2019

PDF became an “open standard” in 2008 when Adobe relinquished its control to the International Organization for Standardization. It was published as ISO 32000-1:2008. Whether you are sharing to a mobile device or computer, it will always be acceptable. The second version was documented under ISO 32000-2.

Conversion 86

Conversion Software Review Operations Software 86

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Their idea is that consumers will want a subscription service for short form entertainment (10-minute programs) for mobile rather than full length movies. Will consumers want to watch short-form mobile entertainment? This same risk averse, conserve the cash, VC mindset would return after the 2008 meltdown of the housing market.).

Lean 335

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users). When you think about the trends of faster-growing startups due to social networking, credit card enable and mobile first consumers – the reality is that many startups are becoming very large financially before needing to go public. Where are we today? and hasn’t abated.

Technical Review 398

Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 398

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Fifteen years and 2 billion smartphones shipped in the 21 st century and Microsoft’s mobile OS share is 1%. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Fifteen years and 2 billion smartphones shipped in the 21 st century and Microsoft’s mobile OS share is 1%. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The developer – who created his first product, a CMS and eCommerce web app back in 2008 – says that development on his product will never be done. ” He’s currently looking into mobile development as well, but admits that as a lone developer it’s difficult to juggle various development pieces. .”

Developer 159

Developer EC2 Harvest Architecture 159

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. I continue to be excited about the Mobile Web (as distinct from the Mobile App). Many may simply hit the wall. That is conformity. Same with VCs.

Florida 299

Florida Technical Review San Antonio Los Angeles 299

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2011

I’ve been using and advocating LinkedIn since 2008, and I find it a great way to plug yourself into the relevant industry discussions occurring all the time between thought leaders and subject matter experts. You know who you are. You can find out more about the update here.

Mobile 154

Mobile Social Network Networking Web 154

thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The combination of mobile technology, sensors, robotics, and data analytics will create businesses that can empower billions of people around the world through decentralized and distributed networks where the “middlemen” are no longer required. The 2008 financial crisis is still being felt in this country. Globally, there are 2.5

Kenya 109

Kenya Africa United States Global 109

ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

First Click Free (2008). If you take a random article on The Washington Post and load it into Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test , you can see that Google has no issue crawling or rendering the content: That’s because the Google Mobile-Friendly Test uses the real Googlebot user agent and IP. How to make a paywall profitable.

SEO 122

SEO HTML Technical Review Caching 122

Scalable Startup

JULY 20, 2013

In 2008 I was working on a post-merger integration project for a small company being acquired by a Fortune 100 behemoth. These are now done either transparently in the background, in the cloud, or done using minimally invasive mobile apps. I can even build server based websites with Drupal and MySQL now on an iPad in a coffee shop.

Mobile 22

Mobile Hawaii Angel Investor Early Stage 22

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2012

Founded by interaction designer Brad Damphousse and software engineer Andrew Ballester, GoFundMe was first conceptualized back in 2008 when both were driven by personal tragedies that led to want to use their talents for good. GoFundMe deducts a 5% fee from payments users receive, and never charges donors.

San Diego 176

San Diego Colorado Software Engineering Bootstrapping 176

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Global trade dipped in 2008. Today, as transmission costs have plummeted, internet broadband speeds have soared, and mobile connections have exploded, the amount of data flowing across the world’s digital highway has increased 40 fold in seven years and is projected to increase another nine times by 2025.

Global 113

Global Technical Review Agile Internet 113

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Founded in August 2008 in Palo Alto, CA, by Sam Christiansen and Keith Lee.

Partner 240

Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 19, 2019

It was in the year 2008, after a global recession hit the world, that the first startup revolution began to take shape. We offer mobile payment solutions to over 7 million merchants and allow consumers to make seamless mobile payments from Cards, Bank Accounts, and Digital Credit, among others.

India 131

India Startup Cofounder Software Review 131

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 22, 2017

Mobile technology, in particular, has made the casino business much more pronounced by bringing the niche to a much wider market segment. However, mobile technology has popularised the industry by making gaming platforms accessible to many, while retaining the adventurous and enjoyment factors.

Mobile 60

Mobile Technology Africa Asia 60

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

Just think of the turmoil caused by the dawning of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) era, with employees demanding to use their beloved, personal mobile phones or tablets for work. Digital and mobile applications connect IT systems to the external world. It was an early adopter of user-generated content.

Government 113

Government Technical Review Asia Japan 113

www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

SAY Medias Alex Schleifer is the lead designer for ReadWriteWebs re-design (currently in process) and his quote above captures why mobile websites are enjoying a renaissance. When smartphone apps first got popular, after Apples App Store was launched in July 2008 , they offered an immediate jump in functionality for mobile content.

HTML 69

HTML Technical Review Software Review Semantic 69

thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Thanks to the Web and mobile connectivity, more and more people have access to online resources for education and information – the combination of on-the-ground expertise and this access to global information is creating a revolution. Starbucks has also built successful retail mobile payment experience, albeit a closed loop one.

Africa 106

Africa India Bangladesh United States 106

Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 3, 2013

You have the choice to do business from anywhere, anytime, including some of the most beautiful and mobile entrepreneur friendly towns in the USA. So here you have it, the “Top 10 Small Towns for Mobile Entrepreneurs for 2013.”. And yes, it is perfect for mobile entrepreneurs. Clayton, Georgia. Clayton covers only 3.1

Mobile 163

Mobile Alaska Montana Virginia 163

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.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. First off the two prezis and then the case study material (i used ERPLY as inspiration).

Fractional CTO 248

Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The project was a little unexpected – creating customer cereal boxes called Obama-Os and Cap’n McCains, timely for the 2008 elections. He speculated that upwardly mobile college graduates could be interested in a product or service that was superior to 7-11. Thanks to Ellie Shippey, EZContacts ! #23-

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Bankruptcy Southern California South Africa 92

The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 18, 2012

VatorTV had an article this morning reporting on the growth in mobile advertising. They note from the eMarketer chart inset right that US mobile ad spend is up 180% this year to $4.1bn and say that “after years and years of every year being proclaimed as the ‘year of mobile’ it finally happened in 2012”.

Mobile 100

Mobile Acquisition Forecast IPO 100

David Teten

JULY 25, 2011

Advanced risk management : After the crisis of 2008, financial institutions are clamoring to empower their risk management practices via technology solutions that perform better and faster than current offerings, with as little room for human error as possible. Our portfolio companies OfferIQ (acquired by Transactis) is in this sector.

Software Review 114

Software Review New York City Technical Review Due Diligence 114

The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

If you go back to 2008 to 2009, the overwhelming majority of dollars spent on oDesk were technical in nature,” he said. “I You’ll join others in our Freelance Mobilizer Program, recruiting people to join the Elance revolution. One thing we consistently hear is that you just can’t hire enough mobile developers fast enough.

Russia 151

Russia Ukraine Latvia Lithuania 151

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong – mobile payments has been a very hot area over the past couple of years with the success and growth of both Boku and Zong. Boku and Zong focus mostly on mobile payments for virtual goods. It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. VC Financings: 1.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

Board Effect

MARCH 22, 2022

Customers demand the same services from community banks they enjoy at large commercial banks such as online and mobile tools. The regulatory changes for the banking industry never seemed to end between 2008—2019. Advocacy is necessary to keep pace with vast regulatory changes. .

Community 98

Community Technical Review Agile Non-Compete 98

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

Your site isn’t responsive or mobile-friendly. Your site isn’t responsive or mobile-friendly. In 2008, famed digital trends and internet analyst Mary Meeker predicted that mobile web traffic would overtake desktop traffic by 2014. You aren’t getting the results you want. You want more effective content.

Mobile 48

Mobile Design Technical Review RSS 48

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Kabam, the mobile gaming company, hit a major stumbling block in its early days when its financing was lost due to the 2008 financial collapse. It not only survived but was sold nine years later for $1Billion. Co-founder Holly Liu will walk us through the the decisions that led to that outcome.

Lean 103

Lean Las Vegas Cofounder Startup 103

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Since its launch in 2008, Airbnb has turned the travel industry on its head, offering up over 800,000 properties worldwide for holiday rental. Operating solely through an app, the company claims to be ‘a reinvention of hotel booking for the mobile era’. Housesimple.

Las Vegas 100

Las Vegas Technical Review New York Germany 100

ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

Next, Douglas Villalobos from Costa Rica pitched GeoInvenio, a mobile application development platform. In addition, I asked him to do a competitive analysis on the pricing models of the various mobile app platforms and come back to me with both sets of market data, namely, customer research and competitive analysis. GeoInvenio.

Costa Rica 115

Costa Rica Incubator Silicon Valley India 115

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008). Mobile Usage: 8% of 2010 query volume (mobile app download growth of 344% YoY). Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. 2010 Gross Profit: $162 million (adjusted EBITDA of $32 million). 2010 Net Income: $8 million. 2010 Operating Income: $16 million.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

So one way to think about it is no different from how we have thought about maybe the personal computing shift, the internet shift, the mobile shift. If Generative AI is truly a platform shift like the early days of mobile and cloud, think about the first generation of apps or cloud services.

Generative AI 165

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT API 165

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2011

Right now this is just a Google Maps function, but Google claims it will spread in Place search on Google.com and Google Maps for mobile soon! Better start suggesting keyword phrases for those reviews people are anxious to write. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

Software Review 64

Software Review SEO Small Business Kansas City 64

Hunter Walker

MAY 7, 2018

Back and forth flame wars on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere register as “engagement” and high clickthrough on “new comment” mobile notifications. The dashboards we look at to monitor the health of our products are lagging the experiences our user communities are having.

Web 62

Web Clickthrough Algorithm Metrics 62

YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2018

3G emerged from the growth of the internet during the 1990s , which created a demand for mobile phones that could support both SMS texting and multimedia MMS transmission of image, sound and video files. One economic outgrowth of 3G was the explosion of the mobile app market. 4G: Empowering Mobile Broadband Applications.

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South Korea China SMS Germany 133