Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Breadcrumbs was conceived in June 2012 at Startup Weekend in San Diego as a self-tracking mobile application. Owners were unable to curate these daily alerts on a regular basis. The Startup Garage is going to cover monthly startup events and interview entrepreneurs to showcase the exceptional talent in our local area.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

What types of things might happen in 2012, as opposed to needing another 3-5 years to come to fruition. That aside, here are ten areas I think you'll see some interesting things happening in 2012. One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

And now, without further ado, here are the startups that make up the newest class of 500 Startups Fall 2012 accelerator class: BabyList: a baby registry that works like Pinterest enabling you to put anything online into your registry. Club W: service that provides curated, personalized wine subscription.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 2, 2014

His personal blog, Remains of the Day, is reliably interesting but there’s a post from 2012 that I revisit quite often. We essentially saw the web curating daily YouTube playlists. He’s done product stints at Amazon and Hulu before ending up at current Flipboard gig.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In 2012 alone, more than half a million new businesses were started. Curated Ecommerce Sites. Curated ecommerce sites are a more simple, low-cost way to launch your own startup. AHALife : Curated, one-of-a-kind luxury items. AHALife : Curated, one-of-a-kind luxury items. Net-a-Porter and Lyst are popular brands.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

By Liz Elam, founder/curator of Link Coworking. I like to call myself a Curator and I’ll tell you why – it’s because I’m a keeper of a collection. As the Curator, I take the time to introduce members to each other and assist them in finding common ground. So, I Curate my space. Foster collaboration.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Founded in 2012, the app is available for iOS, Android and BlackBerry devices. It’s one big reason why Singapore startup Picky has launched Famous Eats , an interactive food guide that maps out the best hawker food in Singapore. Ideaspotting Famous Eats food hawker food mobile app Picky Singapore startup'

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Breadcrumbs was conceived in June 2012 at Startup Weekend in San Diego as a self-tracking mobile application. Owners were unable to curate these daily alerts on a regular basis. The Startup Garage is going to cover monthly startup events and interview entrepreneurs to showcase the exceptional talent in our local area.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Yet there are big challenges to hyperlocal, at least for consumer-focused hyperlocal startups, according to Sean Barkulis , Founder of UPlanMe one of the early casualties in this space: Every site requires real curated local content to engage users. Building content is costly and time-consuming.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 13, 2011

5 Trends That Will Shape Small Business in 2012 This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. Here are my predictions for 2012. Apps in content-curation tools like Storify provide relevant context for content. This post originally appeared on American Express OPENForum. It’s time for my annual prediction of small-business trends.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2014

Indeed since 2012 the daily deal model have been observed to be dying a slow death , and even industry players agree an overhaul of their business models is due in order for them to survive. “Initially, our main focus was on flash sales which worked well as a USP because these were deals you could not find elsewhere. .

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

The product collects, cleans, and curates data from news sites, SEC filings, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, AngelList, CrunchBase, and more. The team are alumni of Y Combinator S12 as well as Batch 5 of 500 Startups in 2012. Mattermark was launched in the Fall 2013 and is led by Danielle Morrill , Kevin Morrill , and Andy Sparks.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Borrowing interactive features from apps like Instagram, on Carousell you can “Like”, “Comment” and “Share” items for sale, as well as “Follow” other users with similar tastes (a neat form of user curation). “During Startup Weekend Singapore in March 2012, I discussed the idea of an easy-to-use mobile marketplace with my friends.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 23, 2012

The destination was Dealmaker Media's GROW 2012 conference , a summit of startup rock stars and wannabe-rock stars raring to pitch, invest and innovate their hearts out in Vancouver. Paul Singh (@paulsingh) August 22, 2012. That's exactly the challenge posed by Geeks on a Train , a veritable Nerd Express from Portland, Ore.,

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

To drive home the point, Nielsen’s 2012 social media report reveals that: • Forty-seven percent of social media users engage in social care (i.e., For small business owners the takeaway is this: No matter who your customers are, they’re most likely plugged into the online world in some fashion, and you shouldn’t ignore that fact.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

by Sarah Lacy on February 26, 2012. But it’s possible that as the secret sauce of new media swings farther from disruptive technology and business models to a focus on curated and quality content, it’s the older entrepreneurs who are in the pole position. link] February 27th, 2012 | Category: Entrepreneurship [.].

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 13, 2022

I opened a cocktail bar ( Ward Eight ) in 2012, and it was pretty successful. Traditional auction houses usually have minimums and focus more on curation, but that can exclude a lot of people from participating. Something you’d been thinking about for a while or more of a ‘let’s just try this and see what happens’ side project?

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 18, 2020

We went public in 2012.” In Austin, the innovation departments of the US Defense departments have taken up residence, many within Capital Factory and are curating, funding and buying technology from local startups. There have been almost 50 companies started by former Bazaarvoice (his former company) employees.

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 21, 2014

I had the great fortune of getting to know Dr. Brett Jacobsen during our Leadership Atlanta class experience in 2012/13. He’s one of the most thoughtful and purposeful leaders I’ve met and the way he approaches running Mount Vernon Presbyterian School made him a perfect candidate for this interview.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The past year has seen exciting growth for online and mobile commerce in Asia , and that trend looks set to continue all the way through 2012 into 2013. How do you decide which sports fashion trends to follow when it comes to curating the products? Over the years, Weston would have seen sports trends emerge and fade away.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2015

I still remember the hot summer of February 2012 – it had just been days since I had launched my business. As the legend goes, the founders of Reddit used fake accounts to populate content on the site for a long time until the community started to curate content themselves. by Jay Barnett, founder of Priority Pickup.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 24, 2016

He said that when he made those investments in 2012 and 2013 eCommerce wasn’t a hot sector with VCs and that remains the case now, but here at Forward Partners we’ve made a number of ecommerce investments and, like David and his partners at Venrock, think there will be more Dollar Shave Club scale exits going forward.

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Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

March 18, 2012. There are lots of celebrities leveraging Twitter to sell their own products or establish e-commerce curation businesses. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate 10 July 2012, 5:13 pm What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says 27 June 2012, 10:16 am To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows 12 June 2012, 12:21 pm.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

And so I think a lot of people did give up on it because they really weren't building any audience or didn't see any point in it, uh, no, necessarily, but then obviously once it became much more mainstream, probably around 2012, 13 is when it really probably took off again. So, so what's been your history. Dan Franks (11:38): Yeah.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2012

Lack of loyalty aside, I wonder if my kids will wonder why the photos I took in 2012 look like they were taken in the 1970's. Or, is the idea of the album forever dead and will we just curate, edit, and filter the one important photo of the event that matters--changing the nature of photography forever? Core Feature or Fad?:

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

In 2012 I thought hard about self-publishing everything I did going forward, but I didn’t feel like I completely grokked the publishing business yet. Shouldn’t the publisher be in the business of helping facilitate these relationships in addition to theoretically curating and producing the content?

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But then obviously once it became much more mainstream, probably around 2012, 13 is when it really probably took off again. And that led to us kind of putting together that, you know, curating that community and, and led to a podcast movement as it is today. So, so what's been your history? Early on.

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99u.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Browse Fresh Work Curated by Industry. Copyright © 2006-2012 Behance, Inc. Buy Paper Products and Creative Tools. » Joblist. View & Post. Creative Jobs. » The Served Sites. Newsletter. Terms of Service. Privacy Policy. startupcto

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 23, 2012

The destination was Dealmaker Media's GROW 2012 conference , a summit of startup rock stars and wannabe-rock stars raring to pitch, invest and innovate their hearts out in Vancouver. That's exactly the challenge posed by Geeks on a Train , a veritable Nerd Express from Portland, Ore.,

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 23, 2012

The destination was Dealmaker Media’s GROW 2012 conference , a summit of startup rock stars and wannabe-rock stars raring to pitch, invest and innovate their hearts out in Vancouver. That’s exactly the challenge posed by Geeks on a Train , a veritable Nerd Express from Portland, Ore.,

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

It was all about tricking the algorithm and I didn’t really break that bad habit until 2012. It’s all about curating the best 10 and if you just put out the 50th best, you’re going to be in 50th place in Google, but if you work the extra mile to make the best, you have a shot of hitting number one.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Evernote Business – I’ve written about how I use Evernote in the past, but a recent significant update called Evernote Business has me adding it to this list, even though it won’t be available until December 2012. ScoopIt allows you to curate content from around the web and build a custom magazine of sorts with the content.

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Spencer Fry

AUGUST 26, 2014

Burstoid had thousands of readers and was quite successful, but in 2012 everyone and their mother had a photography blog and it just wasn’t as exciting to source new photographs as it had been. Even though I was curating the blog and helping photographs get exposure, it didn’t feel as fulfilling as writing an article or doing product work.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 25, 2016

While the content you curate for other social platforms can (and arguably should ) have a lifestyle focus, your LinkedIn strategy should center around your industry, and what your business can contribute to that space. Enter SlideShare, the slide deck platform purchased by LinkedIn in 2012.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Apps in content curation tools like Storify are providing relevant context for content. What does this trend suggest for you in 2012? This trend highlights the marketers need to go beyond SEO and PPC and move even deeper into the worlds of social networks, mobile marketing and app based local marketplaces.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 15, 2014

The adoption quickly exploded and in 2012, global smartphone adoption reached 1 billion users. They have our cross device personalized history, manually curated search cards, and real time information. Emarketer predicts that in 2014, that number will balloon to 4.55 The major question is what will mobile search look like.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JUNE 11, 2012

June 7th, 2012. June 7th, 2012 12:12 pm. June 8th, 2012 1:02 am. June 8th, 2012 7:36 am. June 8th, 2012 1:37 am. June 8th, 2012 2:26 am. June 8th, 2012 7:59 am. June 8th, 2012 2:51 am. User Experience. UI Design. E-Commerce. Essentials. Techniques. Sketching A New Mobile Web. By Dennis Kardys.

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