Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

The product would leverage GPS and laser-based technologies and could be used on existing mower or farm equipment or built into new units. JointBuy allows buyers to start a new deal on any available product and share the idea with others through existing social networking sites.

Lean 304

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 304

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

Private Equity 60

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

This begs the question: how much time do users spend in Snapchat today compared to other social networks, and how will that number change over time? Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. Back to Snap.

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

If you're capable of seeing past the old stones of Paris and the picturesque rural villages, you'll realize that France is every bit as technologically advanced as any other Western country - more so in some areas. Exalead was just acquired by the technology giant, Dassault Systems.). Plyce : Feature-rich location-based social network.

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France Technical Review Incubator Early Stage 163

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2010

In LA we lack the same scale of technology ecosystem as they have in the Bay Area. We have tons of entrepreneurs but our technology community has historically been splintered across town and across industries. In aggregate we have a ton of great developers but we need a better feeding system into our startups.

Baltimore 222

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Rob Go

JUNE 7, 2012

Our recent investment in Farmeron is leveraging the rising availability of data being produced in the farming and agricultural sector, and other companies are similarly aggregating and making accessible oceanographic data. It also looks like the floodgates have started to open in the way we interact with technology and the web.

Technical Review 61

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. 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. Seems an obvious fit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2010

For as long as I can remember, computer users have been complaining about the array of names and passwords required to get work done – a different unique user identification name and password are required to start the computer, email, social networks, banking, read online news, connect to the office, or check your phone bill.

Startup 199

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe that many social networks confused this idea. The person calling obviously wants to speak to somebody, the publisher drives a lead and can get compensated, the advertiser has a warm call and the affiliate network can earn a network commission. We can technology enable offline advertising.

Advertising 284

Advertising Las Vegas Affiliate RSS 284

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

The story of Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg, or at least Hollywood’s version of it, should be familiar to anyone who’s seen The Social Network or spends more than five minutes each week surfing the Internet. And we’re sure Zuckerberg, who still looks and dresses like a college sophomore, is only just getting started.

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Intellectual Property New York City Pennsylvania Cofounder 127

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2016

But if small business owners and entrepreneurs fail to keep up with these trends, they will be left behind in the dust as the technology, organization, and marketing techniques in their industries change. Here are three reasons of why your small business should consider cloud technology for your business: 1. Lower expenses.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Now, for the first time, enterprises are able to integrate and leverage the public social networks where employees, customers and partners congregate. Social networks continue to become a larger part of our lives — Facebook alone has 400 million users who spend close to an hour a day on the site.

Social Network 59

Social Network Chad Stealth Aggregator 59

Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2016

Their hypotheses going forward are that a heads up display is the ideal form of information transmission during a dive and system should be modular to allow for the integration of evolving technology (geolocation and communication). Automated data aggregation (i.e. If you can’t see the Team aquaLink presentation click here.

Social Media 136

Social Media Networking Naming Aggregator 136

Austin Startup

MAY 21, 2010

In addition to being a top Apple e-book aggregator, LibreDigital also powers the delivery of content to other digital devices and marketplaces, including Barnes & Noble NOOK, Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, Google Editions and many more. This year, sales of e-books are expected to double to more than $700 million in the U.S. LibreDigital.

Aggregator 59

Aggregator New York Social Network Demand 59

Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2016

Their hypotheses going forward are that a heads up display is the ideal form of information transmission during a dive and system should be modular to allow for the integration of evolving technology (geolocation and communication). Automated data aggregation (i.e. If you can’t see the Team aquaLink presentation click here.

Social Media 120

Social Media Networking Naming Aggregator 120

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 15, 2013

Back in 2008 I wrote a series of blog posts extolling the emerging virtues of RSS technology. A growing number of people have also turned to RSS aggregator tools like Flipboard and Pulse that can spoon feed more visually appealing content based on chosen topics. Heck, Google even has one of these called Google Currents.

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RSS Aggregator Social Media Curation 64

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

90 Things I’ve Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies. Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community. If it’s done right, feedback and postmortems are regular activities and reviews are just the official aggregation of such feedback.?. Fab Culture.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. I hadn't talked to her in a while and then because of a presentation I did around Social Media for Service Professionals she and I reconnected. Same goes for online business networking. I've known Farida for quite a while.

Early Stage 150

Early Stage Southern California Los Angeles Marketing 150

ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

77% of Users Believe Social Login Is A Good Registration Solution… … and should be offered by any website, according to the same aggregated research published by WebHostingBuzz. The same goes for businesses operating primarily in countries where social networks are blocked, such as China or Cuba.

Social Network 130

Social Network Viral Social Media B2C 130

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Of course, I’m a total social login fan, but at least offering your users a choice between filling out a registration form and signing up using their social account IDs seems like straightforward business sense. The same goes for businesses operating primarily in countries where social networks are blocked, such as China or Cuba.

Social Network 73

Social Network Viral Social Media B2C 73

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 3, 2013

As this graph showcases, in the beginning, brands focused on growing their social audience as a means of reaching out to more people with traditional marketing messages on nontraditional platforms. Then, marketers went a step further by using various calls-to-action to encourage brand conversation on the social networks themselves.

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Media Social Media Advertising Audience 62

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Arnie Gullov-Singh (ex-EVP of product, technology and operations for MySpace) also joined as CEO, as Sean Rad will assume the role of President. Swipely is a social network orientated around users credit card transaction data. Following several completed advertising campaigns, Ad.ly

Stealth 285

Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

Rob Go

JANUARY 29, 2012

Network fragmentation. Facebook’s success is largely based on its ability to aggregate the biggest audience on the internet and understand and monetize that audience. Social networks should be incredibly robust because of network effects. Here are the major vulnerabilities that I see: 1.

Advertising 59

Advertising Mobile Aggregator Distribution 59

ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2020

Working with this dataset can be valuable in terms of understanding the underlying structure of Google Analytics data and experimenting with a number of advanced statistical and data mining techniques that can’t be applied when the data is in aggregate form (which is the norm with standard Google Analytics.).

Analytics 94

Analytics Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review 94

Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 6, 2010

The foundation technology combines listening/responding with an analytics capability aimed at measuring the influence of an individual user and using that information to target small segments of highly desirable individuals who influenced broader segments of the market. Social Support Queues.

Social Media 60

Social Media Media Viral Channel 60

David Teten

AUGUST 3, 2011

You can’t curate until you aggregate. The promises of the technology have been slow to materialize, and some of the challenges are proving to be intractable. To close out the discussion, each panel member suggested one technology/trend that will die out soon. Then how do you best capitalize it, push it further?

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Analytics Curation Algorithm Metadata 60

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

At a high level, user experience is the aggregate and subjective experience of using a product such as a website or app. The technology allowing you to collect this data is getting better and better, now allowing for auto-flagging of user frustration signals and segmenting based on events, traffic sources, goals, etc. Does it work?

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Conversion Metrics Architecture Design 103

BeyondVC

MARCH 10, 2004

As I have said a number of times, I am a big believer that companies should start looking at how to use new technology and standards like blogs, wikis, and RSS/Atom from a product perspective and not solely for news publishing and aggregation. What do I mean by that?

RSS 60

RSS Wiki Customer Aggregator 60

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Utilizing a recently developed innovative technology, BetterView leads a revolution in the content world. Brandsforce is a plug & play social media marketing platform that generates conversations, engagements and measurable actions on social networks. Betterview - Company Website. Brandsforce - Company Website.

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Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

At least it wasn’t for me, and people in my social network. Unless you are a technology company like us, you’re probably not monitoring those things. These companies, SageWorks, SizeUp, and there’s others, basically aggregate anonymously thousands and thousands of companies’ information. There’s an art to making an ask.

Small Business 60

Small Business Email Startup Aggregator 60

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2013

Smaller funds are thriving, and technology has been brought to bear in a major way with efforts like AngelList. Meeting in person is no longer the only way an angel investor can get looped in a network of other investors. Luckily for all of us, including the New York Angels themselves, the ecosystem has bloomed.

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Angel Groups Angel Investor Aggregator New York 146

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. No separation between the technology organization and the product organization. We focused too much on technology. Too much money.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

What most people never understood about Maker Studios is that much of their growth came through technology innovation and advantages on our back-end the most people didn’t even know about. And it’s not about aggregating traffic better. Online technology company that distributes video. Here is an example.

Video 150

Video Curation Distribution Silicon Valley 150

Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

Social analytics and video marketing are likely to be the key marketing trends for 2016. The pace of technology has altered the way we view digital and connect with our customers. On the social analytics side, I have been using Buffer for more that an year now, and it’s downright fantastic.

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Analytics Social Media Marketing Media 100

VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2011

They plan to scale by using ecommerce aggregators as affiliates. The technology behind the project is based on studying the behavior of individual learning and by understanding the student’s interests, whether it be film or sport. The engine can also correct the problem as it is detected using a SaaS platform.

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Incubator Startup Florida 99