A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Kenya and Nigeria are of a particular interest for the employers in the UK due to the high percentage of English speakers who have received bachelor’s degree or higher. Facing a high unemployment rate among graduates, Kenya encourages entrepreneurship in an effort to create more jobs in the technology sector.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2015

In 2013, there were 909 million mobile gamers worldwide, nearly half of which resided in the Asia Pacific region, and 146 million of which came from North America. Newzoo, a video game research firm, reported that 2014 revenue for mobile gaming was $25 billion – up 43% over revenues from 2013. Social Integrations.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2015

by Jack Narcotta, Devices Analyst at Technology Business Research. billion – masks how sagging performance from its PC business wiped out the momentum Lenovo had generated since 2013 and has forced Lenovo to reset its profit and revenue growth expectations for its enterprise and mobile device businesses. year-to-year to $10.7

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Reviewing financial & operational performance. By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices. Mentorship. As You Start to Mature.

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The Next Web

JUNE 21, 2015

In a book based on his 2013 TED talk, Pico Iyer muses about how the more connected we become, the more we need to disconnect and just…be still. One Goodreads review suggests that the book would have the most appeal for readers who are unfamiliar with successful remote work. I’ll be the first to admit I’m horrible at sitting still.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

In 2013, more than 45 percent of user searching was done through mobile devices. By 2015 more than 50 percent of Google pay per click ad campaigns will be the result of a mobile search. Online visibility now encompasses even more than SEO and search engine result listings.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2014

According to The Economist forecast for 2015, ASEAN will add USD 335 billion and become the fourth largest economy in the world. If an overseas customer is not able to settle an account due to liquidity problems, sourcing local finance to bridge the gap is an option. Atradius, Payment Practices in Asia-Pacific, 2013.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2016

This news follows on the heels of a great close to 2015, where year-over-year revenue was up for 61 percent over 2014 revenue for the survey participants. Ask them if they wouldn’t mind sharing positive feedback on your website, newsletter, social media channels, or an online review site.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Of course, some industries are more affected by the holiday season than others… In 2015, eMarketer predicts that total retail sales will increase 5.6% When the holidays season rolls around, you can also count on… An increase in cart abandonment due to an increase in unqualified leads. Tweet It!]. An increased bounce rate.

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Up and Running

MARCH 6, 2015

Whether you’re writing a business plan, or simply looking for data to corroborate your research, reviewing sample business plans can give you excellent insight into things you may want to think about. Where should you be focusing your energies in 2015? And here’s a hint: tech startups don’t even make the top 10!

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

In June of 2013, as I was putting together my thoughts for the K9 Ventures annual meeting, I decided to sit back and reflect on what I thought was happening in “Venture Land”. A re-jiggering of deal stages and sizes had begun in 2013. There is too much capital coming into tech investing. Tech companies generate a lot of buzz.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

From 2010 through 2015, the industry saw a moderate but steady four percent growth. This growth is due, in large part, to an aging U.S. To date, North America has dominated the home health care global marketplace due mainly to a more sophisticated health care infrastructure and more resources committed to research and development.

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gigaom.com

JULY 10, 2012

Tech News and Analysis. AT&T promised in April to open Watson up to general development, but on Monday AT&T SVP for technology and network operations John Donovan made the launch official in a blog post , revealing seven different “contexts,” or language libraries, that app builders can access to speechify their products.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

It’s that time of year, where I — as a committee of one judge, me — select one startup in the tech ecosystem that “broke out” and has the makings of an even larger outcome should things continue to go right. It’s entirely possible the trend lifts these companies in due time, as well.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 13, 2016

Looking back at 2015, the standout theme in the VC/startup ecosystem was unicorn hunting. We started the year enraptured by the “Age of Unicorns” with this cover of Fortune in January 2015 : Illustration: Jeremy Enecio. Was this simply a shift in sentiment among the tech & business media? What happened?

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Scalable Startup

APRIL 6, 2015

By most measures, we are in crazy times right now in the tech startup world. Skip to 2013… Two years ago in the California startup world there was a lot of buzz, or anti-buzz, about the impending pop of the current hyperactive tech market and unsophisticated spending of. They have nothing to lose. Why not start company.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

I founded SilkRoll in 2015, I spent 10 years developing my style and taste in fashion while working around the world as an investment banker. With a wealth of financial knowledge, I took a risk and became the CFO of a clean tech startup and eventually moved to San Francisco where my entire high end wardrobe became obsolete.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased about 10 percent, from 280 out of 100,000 adults in the 2014 Startup Activity Index, to 310 out of 100,000 adults in the 2015 Index. 275 IPOs were completed in 2014, topping the 2013 total of 222 by more than 23%. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For much of 2014 and 2015, I banged my head against a plane window flying back and forth between Austin and Silicon Valley while trying to raise institutional VC money for Localeur. Almost immediately, people started to dig what we were doing: Digital Trends named Localeur one of their favorite new apps of SXSW 2013 and other press followed.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2017

In September of 2013, I landed myself into one of the coveted spots on ABC’s Shark Tank. For most consumer purchases there are well-known sites designed for customer reviews and research. Steve Jobs. Image Credit: Lori Cheek. Want to buy a house? Realtor.com or Zillow.com. Looking for a hotel room? Travelocity or Expedia.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We Vested Technology spent $17k on their MVP. Vested Technology is a recruiting-automation platform that works alongside teams to identify, engage, and hire passive candidates.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

While there may be generational gaps about fashion or social conventions, millenials are often at the forefront when it comes to technology. Armed with new technologies and attitudes, Millennials are poised to start businesses that can transform today’s realities into the economy of tomorrow. At the end of June, U.S.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We Vested Technology spent $17k on their MVP. Vested Technology is a recruiting-automation platform that works alongside teams to identify, engage, and hire passive candidates.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

In January 2013 I had a lightning bold moment. In January 2013 I had a lightning bold moment. Three years elapsed from an idea in my head to an item I could hold in my hand for sale ~ on December 1st 2015 I was holding VagiKool, the rest is history. VagiKool is a name that needs no explanation. as it does what its name implies.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Most frequently people use this phrase in association with personal technology devices (heart-monitors, exercise accessories, sleep monitors, etc) that allow consumers to take direct control of their health information. Technology to the Rescue? The subject of the “consumerization of healthcare” has been around for many years.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Heck, up until its first shipment in 2015, it was science fiction. But as impressive as its technology is, the Apple’s smartwatch has been a product looking for a solution. To get FDA clearance, Apple reportedly submitted two studies to the FDA (so far none of the data has been published or peer reviewed).

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2016

My story of transitioning from a Columbia MBA to a chef & consultant was featured on The Huffington Post (in both written + video format), Bustle, Brit + Co, Swaay Media and the print books *Knives and Ink* (Bloomsbury) and *Amazing Women Entrepreneurs* (due March 2017). I was granted a James Beard Foundation fellowship.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

A photo posted by CEO Blog Nation : I am CEO (@ceoblognation) on Aug 18, 2015 at 2:23pm PDT. #1) Despite the ongoing recession, I took to my kitchen table in 2013 to launch Digital Air Strike — an award-winning automotive social media and digital engagement company. It was so bad that I almost wrote my first Yelp review.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

A photo posted by CEO Blog Nation : I am CEO (@ceoblognation) on Sep 16, 2015 at 10:40am PDT. #1 When I decided to leave my mobile data start-up in 2013, I remembered my mortgage experience from 2010, and found that nothing had changed – the model was broken, antiquated and inefficient. 1 – Simple, Easy to Remember.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

But interaction researcher Alex Poole reviews the evidence and notes “study after study with findings of ‘no difference’.”. You’ll see them often on technology-related sites. The 2013 iteration of Google’s serif logo. The new 2015 sans-serif logo. Whether you use a serif or a sans-serif font is of negligible importance.

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David Cohen

APRIL 1, 2018

Like when I did this in China in 2013 with Andrew , who is now 16, I wrote a daily email home and am just posting them all here chronologically with a few photos. We got an upgrade on that second flight due to my status, so had first class. It’s muddy, slippery, and a little technical. Flew to Houston, and had dinner there.

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ConversionXL

MAY 30, 2012

By 2013, more people will use mobile phones than PCs to get online, according to Gartner. Worldwide Smartphone and Media Tablet Shipments, 2010-2015: Source. Outside research indicates that men are often earlier adopters of technology ,” Bankhead said. In-store salespeople are no match for online reviews and comments.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

Technology has helped close the information and resource gap for many vulnerable people, and I wanted to be a part of this revolution. One industry where many have fallen victim and lost large amounts of money due to lack of information is the real estate industry. Since 2013, we’ve opened 6 permanent campuses across 4 southern.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2019

It’s pretty easy to forget how much a new technology changes our lives once it’s adopted. Sure, some new technologies are like shooting stars, but some change everything forever. The problem was this created a dangerous idolatry of any innovation big tech companies launched at us. This was that moment.

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