Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Also, with investors like Dave Hornik (invested in Blippy), Saar Gur (from CRV who invested in Blippy) and First Round Capital (invested in Swipely) I assume we’re headed for at least a very interesting market to watch from the sidelines. 11.2mm in Series A, rumored pre-money of $35mm; $1.6mm angel raised in Jan 2010.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Janine Popick Janine Popick is the CEO and co-founder of VerticalResponse (Inc. 5000 2006-2010), a leading self-service direct marketing provider to over 100,000 small businesses. Janine is VerticalResponse’s CEB (Chief Executive Blogger).

Small Business 41

Small Business Social Media Engineer Matching 41

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Brian Halligan Brian Halligan is CEO & Co-Founder of HubSpot , a marketing software company he co-founded four years ago to help businesses transform the way they market their products by “getting found&# on the internet. He is the co-author of Get Content Get Customers.

Small Business 53

Small Business Marketing Cofounder Social Media 53

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, April 7, 2010 Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem) Lean startups don’t optimize. Many optimizers are in favor of split-testing, too: direct marketers, landing page and SEO experts -- heck even the Google Website Optimizer team. Let me illustrate.

San Francisco 154

San Francisco Lean Metrics Design 154

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

When it comes to the most famous company that got away, Groupon — which was offered and turned down $6 billion in 2010, and recently fell below that market cap — Lawee refuses to speculate about whether it would have fared better inside the Googleplex.). company Slide.com in August 2010 for $182 million.

San Francisco 104

San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104