The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Hunie: community for designers to help them get feedback from their peers. LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Everbill: invoice and estimate service. femeninas: fashion and beauty portal for women. Iconfinder: site for icons.

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Life Beyond Code

MARCH 16, 2013

So here’s your new 4-word mktg strategy for 2013: Guess Less, Ask More… and always start with “How can I serve you?”. RS: Ted, let’s get to the bottom – what is the ONE takeaway that you want for people from this book? TR: ROI is simple dollars and cents, ROR is about people. Don’t just Listen, but Hear.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service. 35:50) Building community on text messages and threads. (38:30) Some of it's communication. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. Now they are back in every community, with the best even waving money at graduates. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin started Bitwise in 2013 with the idea that the technology industry could be used to fix a city--in their case, Fresno, CA. Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 8, 2019

As Bill Gates noted in the Foundation’s 2013 Annual Letter , the digital revolution has played a key role in increasing the organization’s ability to measure which approaches are working and which aren’t. Thanks to cell phones, satellites, and cheap sensors,” he wrote, “we can gather and organize data with increasing speed and accuracy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 3, 2013

My editorial themes for 2013: January – Referral Marketing. These are all topics that I believe my community is interested in learning more about and that I personally have an interest in developing more content around. I’ll use my organization as an example to help illustrate this point. February – Coaching and Consulting.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

I grew up in Nigeria, and have seen up close the health and safety concerns posed by communities lacking clean toilets and running water. 20- Add value to the global human community. My business enabled me to engage in something I am better at, make a living out of it and give back to the community. Photo Credit: Muhammad Antiq.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In 2015, 46 percent of workers were enrolled in a plan with an annual deductible of $1,000 or more, up from 38 percent in 2013 and 22 percent in 2009. Some members of the “urgent care” community are intelligently rebranding their services as “convenient care.” Here are a list of the new forces pushing the U.S.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

Or maybe information about how Ragu farmers support local communities. by creating a great experience, reassuring me with clear pricing, and they won't even have to pay a bounty to their aggregators! So why is it that YouTube's home page is still such a cluttered mess? Why is it that when I visit www.3m.com

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

So I thought I might pull all these thoughts together in a new edition of Soundbites from the Future – The 2013 edition. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. You’ll find it is full of contradictions and juxtapositions.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In 2013 Mazda started installing Stitcher – the second most popular podcast aggregator – in the actual dashboards of their cars. Grow a 100-person Elite Mastermind community. LeadPages , which provides SaaS for building conversion optimized and mobile responsive landing pages, decided in late 2013 that it was time.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Instead, it tends to emphasize vibrant communities of scholarship and learning, stimulating atmospheres of intellectual inquiry, enduring commitments to academic excellence. Another key step will involve aggregating this data. College marketing literature rarely expresses this last fact so bluntly.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2013

Aggregators. We’ve seen the rise of aggregators like Goodreads , Booklikes , Shelfari , and Red Room , who play the role of gatekeepers by allowing anyone to rate books, post reviews, and then collect the panoply of opinions in one place. If you’re not part of the community, you may not know everything that goes into it.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Skype became part of Microsoft so I was at Microsoft for two years and then in September of 2013 I left Microsoft and GroupMe to start Fundera which is an online marketplace for small business loans. When you go into a community bank on average fifty percent of applicants are declined. They are a part of your community.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Added – March 2013* Startup Intelligence tools. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Ning Communities. On-line Communities. About VC Cafe.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

Now it’s a big world of impact and technology out there, so let’s start by putting terms in context: Tech for Good: companies or projects that are concessionary in nature, might make a big impact in local communities but might not make as much money as a VC would require from its investments. Israel, a hub for Impact Tech?

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems. News aggregation startup Wavii has launched a new version of its iPhone app, which comes with improved news feeds, social interactions, and a better sign-up process.

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