Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Snap’s revenue is a function of two numbers: number of users, and average revenue per user (ARPU). User Growth Snap’s user growth came to a near stop after Instagram launched a direct clone called Stories in September of 2016: Snap’s daily active users grew just 3% in Q4 2016. years to grow its user base 4x.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce. Google Ventures (GV). 17% (13 / 80).

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2016

In the work of the Search Engine optimization among the various factors considered, one of the most prioritized factors is incoming links. The number of incoming links is one of the points considered by the Optimization Algorithms. Search engines like Google give this a top priority. Importance and Factors Considered.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 7, 2023

They protect the privacy of your users and are also an excellent way to prevent attackers from making a fake version of your website. SSL combines cryptography, asymmetric key algorithms, and encryption methods. Without SSL, malicious actors can intercept a user’s contacts and use them to steal their personal information.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

He had been so focused on coming up with a great idea that he didn’t notice his model was wrong until he tried to convince users to pay for the product he had built. Here’s a tiny slice of the pie to give you an idea of what those problems are or were: Viaweb – Paul’s own company which allowed users to make their own online stores.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

Brian Dean: I’d say the big shift that’s happening right now is user intent and Google’s ability to measure that and the importance of creating your site with user intent in mind. It’s good that you said that because there’s no one user intent usually for a keyword, there’s multiple.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Here are some useful stats that will help you to choose the right platform: 79% of Twitter users are based outside US. A larger percentage of Pinterest users are moms who have children under 5 years of age. Choose your social network depending on your buyer persona. More women use Instagram than men.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2012

Together, the two developed new search engine designs and algorithms, which led to the creation of the PageRank system and later Google. Who would have guessed that a young brainiac from Harvard would create the biggest and most successful social network in the world? Henry Ford. Oprah Winfrey.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Again, putting something down on paper (wireframes, graphic comps) and getting feedback from potential users can tell you most of what you would learn from a working MVP. Examples might be a recommendation engine, search engine, matching engine or something with a complex interface. We needed the matching algorithm.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As promised, open source social network and Facebook alternative Diaspora released its source code yesterday. On a recent TechZing podcast, for example, hosts Jason Roberts and Justin Vincent asked Gabriel Weinberg, founder of the search engine DuckDuckGo if being in the same realm as Google "isn't that, like, crazy?"

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His friends at General Electric said he was wasting his time on the gas combustion engine because the world was going electric. -- ErrantX 215 days ago | link. The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different. I cant keep count of the number of people who I talk to on a daily basis online or in person, at networking events, etc.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2015

Social networks have gained genuine power as a marketing tool for businesses looking to increase their reach, traffic and leads. But there’s no guarantee that the places where most social networking happens now will be the same places hosting it in the future. By Vanessa Richardson. Better spot customers’ needs.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. I’m a geek and software engineer from the former ­Soviet state of Belarus. Being an engineer, I built myself a kind of algorithm that helps determine an early-­stage startup’s sales channels, and that’s what I’m sharing with you today.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 15, 2016

Whether you are conscious of it or not, these behaviors tell social media algorithms that this is the content you really want to see. Social networking sites are increasingly becoming the go-to place for people to discover what is happening in the world. The News Feed As A Tool For Discovery.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Create an interactive, regularly updated site or blog , or by build informative yet informal profiles on social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter. A great offer goes a long way quickly…especially through our favorite social networking sites! They are the first thing people see on search engines. Be visible!

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2019

So I mean I basically ended up as an early employee at Twitter after becoming an early user of the platform back in 2006. Claire Diaz-Ortiz: And ultimately it was becoming, it was the starting as a user that ended me as an employee of the company. And it turned into Expression Engine. Claire Diaz-Ortiz: Sure, sure.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Brandsforce is a plug & play social media marketing platform that generates conversations, engagements and measurable actions on social networks. The solution utilizes our unique technology in combination with standard GSM networks and Tier 1 international trunk lines to deliver service. How do we do this?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

Every change in the algorithm wipes years of effort off of the traffic numbers of affected companies as anybody hurt by the Google Panda release will tell you. While Google stopped Facebook in their tracks when they built a social networking company. And Facebook stomped out Twitter from building an open social network.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Check out their “feature request” lists and past FAQs to get an idea of what users/customers are finding challenging. Do this by simply going to your preferred search engine and typing “COMPANY feature request.”. Totally legit and totally serving the user. Hijack their search engine rankings. Win over their haters.

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

What Google’s Penguin Algorithm Means for Your Business. Ever since Google started naming its algorithm updates after furry black and white creatures, we’ve been inundated with talks of pandas and penguins, and how they’re taking down websites one ranking at a time. Google changes its algorithm about 500 times a year.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

BigBand Networks, which has more than 200 customers in North America, Asia and Europe, provides broadband service providers with digital video networking solutions designed to make it easier to distribute, manage and monetize video. ISRAEL CORP UNIT TO BUILD $680 MLN PERU POWER STATION.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2013

ARISE Entity Search Engine : Current search engines such as Google and Bing organize information in terms of keywords and documents, rather than via deeper understanding or context. ARISE’s Entity search engine aims to take search beyond mere web pages. “With new business models comes the need for new technologies.

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Genuine VC

DECEMBER 23, 2009

We wanna have a lot of properties with a lotta users on them. The property finally came into its own earlier this decade when Google rewarded its deep linked pages when people were searching for niche subject areas on its engine. A metric-driven approach to content generation matches the algorithmic judgment of search engines.

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Genuine VC

DECEMBER 23, 2009

We wanna have a lot of properties with a lotta users on them. The property finally came into its own earlier this decade when Google rewarded its deep linked pages when people were searching for niche subject areas on its engine. A metric-driven approach to content generation matches the algorithmic judgment of search engines.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Not surprisingly, Google Images is the largest of these systems, allowing users to either type in a term or expression or to upload an image and let the network search for a visual match. Other companies are moving in this direction, and recommendation engines are becoming more and more common. Search is personalized.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 7, 2010

We see our users using it not only to get feedback on price but on whether a particular product would look good on them, has a better model, etc. Well for starters they are blending algorithmic search with social networks and that really changes the dynamics of search because it’s no longer about who has a better search function.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. in Computer Science.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. How about ABAPer?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2017

Irrespective of the industry, the content that you create has to increase brand awareness, generate leads, boost sales, make an impact on the target audience, trigger reactions, and enhance search engine rankings. 54000 words are not only the length of an average novel but are also a number of words dumped on a user daily.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

While Facebook currently has more users and more engagement, much of this data is behind a firewall and therefore only useful in so much as Facebook can serve ads against it or get people to spend money there. They know this because Twitter is social, open & asymmetric. Not so on Twitter. Twitter is inherently viral.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 7, 2017

Hence, you can imagine how gosh darn excited I was at the advent of Facebook and Twitter (first real social networks). If you were Cisco, meaningful would mean sharing info-snacks whose entire purpose could be to get Engineers promoted. ZDS is solving for FB, as FB should, and it is an attempt to solve for FB’s users.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers. Our products enable users to transfer, backup and restore content from cellphones, including: Phonebook contacts, SMS messages, Pictures, Videos, Ring tones and Audio files, regardless of the mobile vendor, model, technology or carrier.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Another big innovator in helping manage cloud implementations is Okta , founded by Todd McKinnon, the former VP of Engineering at Salesforce.com (who knows a thing or two about cloud services) and Freddy Kerrest who was senior in biz dev & sales at Salesforce and was there from 2002-07. And what about our social graphs?

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

billion monthly active users. billion users (watching 6 billion hours of videos!). Instagram has an estimated 400 million users. I believe that every human with time to spare, and a connection to the web, should be on social media. if your business should be on that network and 2. Facebook, at last count, has 1.5

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