YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2012

Yongfook, as he is better known in Singapore’s tech entrepreneurship circle (we first wrote about him in 2009 ), is an avid cook and the former director for Japan-based online recipe network Cookpad in charge of its international business.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 23, 2012

In 2009, 27,000 smart phone applications were downloaded a half-billion times. Future games that innovate on these concepts will prove to be highly successful in the world of online and social gaming. In deed, in 2009,World of Warcraft alone represented 10% of global online gaming revenues.

Mobile 157

Mobile Video Design Initial Public Offering 157

The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Color Labs, the photo-and-video-sharing social network that received much criticism over its pre-launch $41 million funding round, is about to be acquired by Apple. They snagged Lala for $80 million in December, 2009. Yes, we know, it seems crazy. As to why they’d want Color Labs?

Los Angeles 161

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Media Startup 161

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. Weve also found that other social networks such as FaceBook and MySpace to have almost no results when it comes to recruitment.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google.

Fractional CTO 248

Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

April 27, 2009 8:59 AM Anonymoussaid. July 15, 2009 11:18 PM markmontgomery said. For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. Mark Montgomery Founder Kyield Initium VC September 12, 2009 4:21 AM Mark Montgomery said.

Lean 168

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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. When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

Buddy Media builds, promotes and monetizes one of the largest networks of engaging and entertaining social media applications on the web. The company reaches more than 8 million internet users each month through some of the top applications on Facebook and other social networks. 4/19/2009 – Still an agency.

Software 105

Software Media Social Media Advertising 105

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. Fabulis.com was initially intended to to be a social network for gay men. Problem was, Facebook, Yelp and Groupon were gay enough where a dedicated social network wasn’t entirely necessary.

Customer Development 126

Customer Development Conversion Developer Customer 126

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Categories Blogs (35) Book Summaries (5) Business (76) Business Travel (7) Design (27) Entrepreneurship (89) Environmentalism (9) Finance (13) Friday Fun (33) Globalization (6) Ideas (42) Innovation (20) Investing (23) Leadership (10) Management (50) Marketing (82) Media (27) Mobile (18) Organizational Behavior (34) Product Development (7) Psychology (..)

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review Software Review 40

www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

facepalm Spammed within an hour >> 2012/02/28 RT @mikeloukides : best customer may not be the 1 who buys the most, but who has the most influence on social networking. Social Networking (22). social networking. December 2009 (3). November 2009 (3). October 2009 (8). September 2009 (7).

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Technical Review Founder Software Review 40

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The number of online appointments is growing exponentially as Schedulicity alone has seen nearly 7 million appointments booked online since mid-2009. Online advertising needs to be targeted and cost-effective, making Facebook’s $50 ad packages a great way to advertise within the social network and direct users to that business’ page.

Cloud 192

Cloud Small Business Mobile Social Media 192

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

Founding Date: 2009. How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. Revenue Growth: 2241% YoY (2010 vs 2009), 1357% YOY (Q1 2011 vs Q1 2010). Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011.

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2011

It also appears that this is another way for Google to place emphasis on creating and using Profile pages – something that likely plays heavily in their plans for a social network of some sort. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

Reputation 62

Reputation Small Business Management RSS 62

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business. September 25, 2009 5:23 PM jchunter said.

San Francisco 131

San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment 131

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 21, 2011

Both of these moved signal a renewed focus on making both Profiles and Places pages more important in their ecosystem and perhaps ultimately in a social network of some sort.

Small Business 66

Small Business Marketing Software Review Portland 66

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? The last closed market we had was from about September 2008 until June 2009--10 months. Perhaps I need to rethink that.

Venture Capital 114

Venture Capital Marketing Term Sheet Software Review 114

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh? I’m surprised at the number of people who aren’t good at tracking down relationships in social networks. &# Most important question – “do you know any other early-stage start ups that you recommend I talk with?&#.

Silicon Valley 291

Silicon Valley Ireland Technical Review Valuation 291

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. I don’t think it even matters, and in part, because the SMS medium makes it feel like you are. Where we are with SMS I akin to where we were with email a ten years ago.

SMS 207

SMS San Francisco Channel Dilution 207

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Reply What To Do When There’s No Venture Capital « Web Startup Help says: January 13, 2009 at 10:42 pm [.] Reply What To Do When There’s No Venture Capital « Web Startup Lessons says: August 12, 2009 at 8:41 am [.] Reply Consulting CTO’s « Kunal’s Blog says: August 17, 2009 at 1:12 pm [.]

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Fractional VPE 40

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

After writing a couple more non-fiction books, I decided to finally take the plunge and write a novel in late 2009. It’s my primary social network ( @thecreativepenn ) and I tweet useful links about writing, publishing and book marketing. It is intrinsically rewarding and I love the blog network I am in.

Technical Review 98

Technical Review Audience Social Network Australia 98

Kodorra

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Visit online forums, social networks, and blogs and check customer star rating and comments. In 2009, a study by Forrester Research found that online shoppers expected pages to load in two seconds or less. Carry out a thorough research in your area of interest and find out what is lacking. Step 5: Get your web hosting server.

Software Review 45

Software Review Hosting Intellectual Property Naming 45

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Pick a similar product that they do use, and ask them "who was the first person you know who started using [social networking, mobile phones, plasma TV, instant messaging.]? April 22, 2009 1:26 PM Paul May said. Paul | twitter: @paulmay May 3, 2009 1:48 PM Trace Cohen said. May 4, 2009 6:36 PM acheekymonkey said.

San Francisco 133

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 133

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2009

If you search for her (as of July 10, 2009 at 5:45pm) you will get no result and the text, “did you mean Amanda Choong?&#. Tags: Social Media social networking Twitter. It takes a while (a day or more) to get your name propagated in Twitter’s search index. Be patient – it will appear. Anything.

Social Network 216

Social Network Social Media Search Naming 216

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. The Russian investment group, DST, is an example, with their $200 million investment in Facebook, at a $10 billion valuation, in 2009. No one doubts that social networks and web and mobile applications are reinventing commerce.

Silicon Valley 327

Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 327

View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

Prince (CloudFlare): In order for CloudFlare to work, we had to build a network, so we didn’t have customers until late spring 2010 [about 9 months after launch], but we had a bunch of people we knew were potential customers. Clark: Competing through Social Networks. And then we used the same list to find the first customers.

Founder 120

Founder Las Vegas Entrepreneur Cofounder 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

By Evan Britton Each day, millions of internet users post updates on a variety of social networking sites. So, to get listed on the real-time web, it will be important to have more followers, friends, and associates in your social network. The great thing about this niche is that it is early for real-time search.

Search 207

Search Engineer Web Social Network 207

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2013

To give you an example of that noise, brands, social networks and other organizations sent a record number of marketing messages in 2012, up 19% on 2011. She was named Adweek Media’s “Publishing Executive of the Year” in 2009. The rest is just digital noise. Email is getting pretty good as a marketing channel.

Email 145

Email Cofounder Social Network Channel 145

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. As of near the end of September 2009, we’re up 46% since the March 9th nadir (yes, I need to find a way to use one of my SAT words ; – ).

IPO 255

IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

When Amazon came knocking in 2009, they had been modestly profitable for only two years. They devalued the company and sold 70% of the business to private investors in 2009. Just 18 months after this photo sharing program and social network was launched, Facebook offered to purchase Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock.

IPO 162

IPO Exit Strategy San Francisco Startup 162

dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

Consider how firms today confront Web 2.0 – the combination of blogs, wikis, and social networking technologies sprouting up. ► 2009. (2). Varieties of Social Networking: FaceBook, LinkedIn. social networking. (1). ► December. (2). The Coming Data Center Singularity: How Fabric Com.

CTO 40

CTO Technical Review Technology Software Review 40

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The inception of Ecwid in 2009 was another milestone in the realm of e-commerce platforms as the site facilitated numerous small and medium traders and merchants to forage markets in the web world. Amazon Inc. Benefits the Ecwid Platform Offers to an Web Designer.

eCommerce 100

eCommerce Web Programming Differentiation 100

Altgate

JANUARY 17, 2009

I was impressed that FCAT was not just looking into data visualization and manipulation, but also at social networking and communities. FCAT , and my review is F’n-A! FCAT was formed about 10 years ago with a mandate to transform business through technology. The facility is the kind of lab that startups fantasize about.

Technical Review 31

Technical Review Technology Venture Capital Social Network 31

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Last year, American Express saw a 28% rise in sales volume for small business merchants during last year’s Small Business Saturday (in comparison to November 27th, 2009). Another great tool made available thanks to Google and American Express, is called “My Business Story.” Read more on Enloop.

Small Business 155

Small Business Social Media Social Network Reputation 155

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Social, Agile, and Transformation. social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Business minded, agile CIO with strong social networking background. Top CIOs talk Social Networking Usage and Policy. ► 2009. (36). and business transformation. Monday, June 18, 2012.

Agile 40

Agile Architecture Offshore Software Developers 40

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The PR agency helps the company understand and influence key bloggers, social networks, industry analysts, luminaries, and references. Reply links for 2009-09-03 « Blarney Fellow , on September 3, 2009 at 6:09 pm Said: [.] Reply Marcelo , on September 6, 2009 at 1:34 pm Said: Amazing post.

Customer Development 215

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 215

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009. VC’s pulled back and only invested $3.7

Silicon Valley 267

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267