Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

They have a mobile app and I felt like it crashed too much for my liking. All applications crash and this is especially true in the nascent mobile world where dealing with device types, OS’s & networks adds one hell of a configuration management problem. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start. Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

They’re used to using the web and increasingly the mobile web for everything, commerce, communication, games, etc. They also probably haven’t seen a phone that isn’t mobile.) And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Unlike U.S. web site, they create another 100,000 VPN users.

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China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 219

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. PC and mobile interfaces dynamically display portfolio valuations and exposures, along with system-generated investment recommendations tailored to a specific client’s financial goals and risk appetite.

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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Entrepreneur Ryan Hoover transformed an email list experiment into a venture-funded startup community with tens of thousands of active members. It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

Experience and vision were the focus of today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. In Sweden, he founded omvard.se

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

Then, also in the 1880s, some clever American entrepreneurs decided to market a “fast growing, shade generating” plant to the overly warm citizens living the waltz-dancing climate of the south-eastern United States. Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce? million acres of land.

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Founder Technical Review Cofounder Non-Compete 120

Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

While I am by no means an expert in the space, I know serious, talented entrepreneurs when I see them, and Boyan’s conference was chock full of the kind of creative high IQ and high “EQ” people that smart investors love to back. Hire a programmer here, a freelance public relations staffer there. Small decisions, little things. read more.

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Tennessee CTO Hire Chicago Aggregator 75

Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The San Diego startup ecosystem is growing, along with the resources available to entrepreneurs. The Startup Garage is going to cover monthly startup events and interview entrepreneurs to showcase the exceptional talent in our local area. Breadcrumbs Beginnings. Sean compares the early version to the Mint.com for time-management.

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San Diego Startup Social Media Technical Review 58

Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

There are two major channels: physical channels and virtual (web/mobile) channels. Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators. Yet like passionate entrepreneurs, the team ignored our advice and pressed on. (To The Nine Teams Present.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start. Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area.

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Widget Marketing Curation Audio 286

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Mobile Usage: 8% of 2010 query volume (mobile app download growth of 344% YoY). Founding Date: 2004. 2010 Net Income: $8 million.

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Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The San Diego startup ecosystem is growing, along with the resources available to entrepreneurs. The Startup Garage is going to cover monthly startup events and interview entrepreneurs to showcase the exceptional talent in our local area. Breadcrumbs Beginnings. Sean compares the early version to the Mint.com for time-management.

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San Diego Startup Social Media Technical Review 40

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

I’m rarely surprised when a young entrepreneur or small business owner hasn’t fully identified how their new business will make money. But I’m always surprised when that entrepreneur or small business owner has a tough time describing the potential customers for their new business’s products and services.

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Small Business Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 110

Rob Go

JUNE 7, 2012

But a lot of entrepreneurs and investors were hoping for a really strong showing to drive more liquidity in the market and continue the surge in hype around internet companies (both start-ups and later stage companies). 5 Years ago, the mobile web meant email on the blackberry or really lame on-deck applications on feature phones.

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Technical Review SMS Internet B2C 61

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

This trend is spurred by the surge in the use of mobile devices across the country (the number of mobile users in the country is expected to hit over 1 billion by 2015), and as consumers choose to bypass various middlemen and go directly to producers. billion by 2015.

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India Private Equity Aggregator Mobile 217

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

A few weeks before the Stanford class began, the teaching team went through their Rolodexes and invited entrepreneurs and VCs to volunteer as coaches/mentors for the class’s teams. BlinkTraffic will empower mobile users in developing markets (Jakarta, Sao Paolo, Delhi, etc.)

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Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 304

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

It's now been about three years since I joined the fray as an entrepreneur and tech blogger. While foreign entrepreneurs wait for the Startup Visa to become a reality so they can go launch their startups in the US, France has quietly had a similar program in place for some time. billion online in the first quarter of this year.

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France Technical Review Incubator Early Stage 163

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

We collect the complete narrative of what they discovered talking to customers as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses and mentor and instructor engagements. It also creates a common language and metrics that investors, corporate innovation groups and entrepreneurs can share. Digital Health.

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Incubator Intellectual Property Startup Lean 316

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start. Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area.

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Widget Marketing Curation Audio 256

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

Image via Flickr by SideWages.com These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start. The registration process to join can give you a very targeted email list. Curation, the most efficient content.

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Widget Curation Audio Aggregator 120

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

is already well above the dot.com bubble of 15 years ago, although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. percent to 23.4

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IPO Entrepreneur Social Media Startup 273

Hunter Walker

JUNE 5, 2014

I never set out to be an entrepreneur, solving problems is just what designers are trained to do. I run my business out of my cell phone, so I’m excited for the next generation of small business tools designed for mobile. My approach to fitness emerged from the answers I found, and my company grew out of that. Giving RelateIQ a shot.

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Mobile San Francisco Social Media Aggregator 92

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Some of us are born Type-A entrepreneurs who start businesses out of their parent’s garages. We rely on “corporate security,” (call it “resume building”) and spend a few years in which everyday seems incredibly important, yet over time aggregates into a bland resume block that garners respect, but also accounts for time lost.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Salary Algorithm 272

The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Similar to Belgian startup Wondergraphs , the idea is to help make sense of structured data – primarily in a professional context – by visualizing it and letting users aggregate, compare, slice, correlate, share, extract (insert more verbs here) figures of any kind.

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SMS Europe France Aggregator 119

The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Curious Hat: mobile exploration tools for curious children. LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. TouristEye: a trip planner that allows you to plan your trip on the web, but view all the info and maps offline on your mobile device.

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Founder Brazil Latvia India 136

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

View More in Mobile ›. Amazingly, nobody has aggregated this data before,” says Coats, who was previously a managing partner at San Diego’s Hamilton Bioventures. We are literally getting hallelujahs from entrepreneurs for making the decision in record time,” Coats says. View More in Health IT ›. Life Sciences ›. Startups ›.

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San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

2) Using advanced web and mobile data networks to track goods, aggregate usage, customer and product information, and strengthen customer intelligence. Highly recommended for entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and anybody with a desire to change the world for the better, with a better way to utilize our fast diminishing resources.

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Social Network Networking Aggregator Green 178

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2019

As a two-sided marketplace, Migo also helps partners and cities better understand multi-modal transit usage and demand patterns by delivering aggregate data down to a neighborhood level. Migo aggregates multiple ride types and partners so when you enter your destination, you can see the location and the price for each type of ride.

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Startup Seattle Aggregator Denver 49

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

For starters – the team is exactly what I look for when I’m looking to fund entrepreneurs. Internet consumption is obviously growing massively on mobile devices. But we’re only in the first inning of mobile advertising. I know of at least one very clever entrepreneur in New York looking at this space.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

Keep in mind Yipit is an indirect competitor in the daily deals space (essentially a meta aggregator of deals sites), but the analysis is sound IMO. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. The folks at Yipit did a detailed analyis of the Boston data and concluded Groupon’s model is deteriorating there.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this. When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. We’re only in the second inning on mobile.

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IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Some of the entrepreneurs below stayed in school while developing and operating their business, while others dropped out in order to give their venture their full attention. Dell offers this sage advice to a new generation of entrepreneurs: “As important as school was, I found that it could be very disruptive to a steady income.”.

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Intellectual Property New York City Pennsylvania Cofounder 127

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Healthcare, transportation and mobile-based internet companies (purchase-based) are the most affected sectors, with players like Uber, Grab, Didi Chuxing, Practo, Coupang and Zomato on the scene. While the on-demand industry based diversification is not that intense as it is in the USA, we see several sectors being disrupted by entrants.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 22, 2010

After some back and forth, a handful of folks decided to mobilize another ADPrentice event for the undergraduates living in the house. Mark, Sameer, and I have committed to participate again and we’ are trying to rope in a few of the other successful MIT ADP entrepreneurs from over the years.

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Massachusetts Aggregator Boston Venture Capital 99

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. Touched by an Angel.

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Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened. Mobile payments are the trillion dollar industry that everybody’s been waiting for but has never materialized. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect. June 12, 2012.

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Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250