The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

The original model was launched through a crowdfunding campaign and became a quick success, with the couple selling over a quarter of a million units to 69,896 backers. The system provides efficient charging solutions that also look beautiful among any décor because there are no messy cords to deal with.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Start an AdWords campaign. Just put in your credit card. I used to use $.05,

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

ROBLOX ( www.roblox.com ) is a web/game startup in Silicon Valley that you have probably never heard of--unless you were an eight year old boy, in which case you're probably not qualified for this position. We are also one of the stickiest sites on the internet. Each month over 2 million unique visitors come to our site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

This is a term indicating the use of “crowd appeal” to get money from interested people on the Internet for a share of your company. Rewards include becoming the “mayor” of an entertainment location via FourSquare , to winning badges via a Badgeville campaign. Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Startup pivot.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Small Business Marketing Tip: Send Email Campaigns At Night To Increase Revenue | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. 15 Best Creative Logo Designs to get Inspiration | Internet Dreamz – [link]. 15+ Awesome Music Logo Inspirations | Internet Dreamz – [link]. Top 6 Crowdsourcing Websites | ichitect – [link].

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: A Fight in Silicon Valley: Founders Push for Control. An important message from The Journal.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Join us and learn how to attract Venture Capital investment in your startup when you live somewhere other than Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, or Boston. Time: 11:00am to 12pm Location: JW Marriott?—?Salon

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

It’s the poor quality version of HBO’s Silicon Valley. Attracting angel investment and getting ‘Valley’ respect is. Harness the internet to validate your business idea. A very real ‘sitcom’ that springs to mind because it does exactly this, is Betas. If you haven’t seen it, don’t bother getting started.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

After volunteering for the Obama campaign last year, a friend of mine insisted that I write a letter to our new President telling him what I thought he should do. Asked to help, I am confident that Silicon Valley and every other innovation center will step up. No logins, no codes, just raw uncensored internet access.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The increasing ubiquity of the Internet and social media has opened the doors for all sorts of businesses that wouldn’t have been possible even ten years ago, but they have also created new challenges for entrepreneurs to overcome. by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com. Could your business plan be improved? You’ve put in the work.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2016

When we say on-demand, the glorious image of Silicon Valley and its technological environs pops up in the layman’s mind, and even that may be too imaginative. Grab focuses extensively on the South Asian region, making their campaign less tedious to execute – focused resources result in more in-depth branding. Hyperlocal Focus.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

As a successful online marketer with all long distance clients, she had been running her business entirely over the internet for years. One day you’re analyzing marketing campaigns, the next your building new products. It also made me Silicon Valley’s longest serving CEO. . How did it work out for me?

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

The advent of GPS, the always-on Internet and social networks enable finding things in real time from people you somewhat trust. Silicon Beach emerges as a tech hotbed. People, if not yet profits Sharing platform companies dont need to carry inventory or hire en masse. Only 3% were online when I started AOL.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. The sooner you understand that the sooner you can plan your campaign. Create a sustained campaign. All sales campaigns are processes that occur over time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

And thanks to the radical transparency enabled by the internet, the quality of these proposals is actually constantly rising, to the point that it’s almost impossible to judge the quality of the final product – because all the proposals look polished and professional, even the terrible ones. Eric, First of all, great post.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Once upon a time, it was a rather straightforward exercise of collecting names and mailing addresses, and then running direct mail campaigns. As the Internet became mainstream, this was largely replaced (at least in the universe we live in) by email marketing campaigns, so the key information was the email address of a lead.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Apple’s iconic Stay Hungry, stay foolish campaign smartly reminds us why this is important. Far from the epicenter of the startup universe that is Silicon Valley, Dwolla is working to revolutionize the banking industry – especially payments. They learn from everyone and everything. Delegate wisely.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

This is especially true if you live outside the echo chamber of Silicon Valley. I know that sometimes campaigns like this can seem overwhelming. The good news I hope well get to announce in a few days is the direct result of the twitter campaign you helped launch last year. There are four ways to get involved below.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

If you will need to supplement your own funds and assets for your business, don’t wait for a crisis to enlist family, friends, angel investors, or start a crowdfunding campaign. Establish a legal presence and intent via the Internet. Make sure you can get consistent names on Twitter, Facebook, and other key social media sites.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age. Dropbox made a great file-sharing product, for instance, but it was their viral marketing campaign that allowed them to cheaply acquire millions of customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. And then came AOL.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

To begin with, today, I gave her a set of immediate action items, including starting a blog, a PPC campaign with some ideas on how to position her keywords, as well as some guidance on merchandising. In fact, in the discussion on JuJu brands is yet another validation of the verticalization and niche-ization of the Internet.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

A large number of these customers had mailed back their registration cards (this was pre-Internet) with their names, phone numbers, job titles, etc. The worst news : The worse news was what wasn’t said, less than 10% of our existing customers bought because of some proactive marketing campaign. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

While many analysts have equated “IoT” (Internet of Things) with wearables, I have long believed that the true value would come more from using cameras, lasers, infrared and sensors to track what is happening in the physical world through the use of technology. He was steadfast. He was dogmatic. He was self-assured. He was right.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). “Silicon Valley” (see Note 2) is hardly alone in this urbanization of startups trend. So why are software & internet startups more urban today than 5-10 years ago? April 13, 2012.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

Money matters: why women founders struggle in Silicon Valley | The Verge – [link]. Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks | TechCrunch – [link]. How did Internet Explorer get to be so bad (relative to Chrome, Safari, and Firefox)? Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks | TechCrunch – [link]. – [link].

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Up and Running

JANUARY 31, 2018

“Every company is a media company,” Tom Foremski, ex-FT journalist and the editor of Silicon Valley Watcher, said a decade ago. You’ll need access to a computer, an internet connection, and a space that work that’s comfortable for you, where you can occasionally take phone or Skype calls with clients.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Not only does the country have a higher percentage of homes with high-speed Internet than the U.S. Sean Murphy on the first dozen enterprise customers - Gabriel Weinberg , September 8, 2010 I recently did a Traction Book interview with Sean Murphy who runs a boutique cutomer development firm in Silicon Valley.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

I came to Silicon Valley when I was 25, turning 26. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. Airbnb got scrutiny before we were big, because Airbnb meant the internet moving into your neighborhood.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

I came to Silicon Valley when I was 25, turning 26. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. Airbnb got scrutiny before we were big, because Airbnb meant the internet moving into your neighborhood.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

I sometimes feel that the Silicon Valley culture and we as technologists more broadly can breed monoculture in our approach to entrepreneurship, problem solving, market analysis and technology solutions. She was talking a lot about how the broader world doesn’t operate how we in Silicon Valley always perceive that it does.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Here was our experience at IMVU, which I have seen replicated at many other consumer internet startups. In fact, we often felt frustrated when new startups with a fraction of our success got terrific write-ups in Silicon Valley-centric venues.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Instead of spending 4 years at university, I spend 4 years starting 2 internet companies that failed. What is the first step in creating an internet-based business (After planning) ? I have 2 options: set up a new startup or share my idea with google (or maybe another big silicon valley’s company). The way I do it.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I wont go into the details of the bill, but at a high level, it allows entrepreneurs to raise funds over the Internet up to a maximum of $1M annually (or $2M with audited financials). An investor in a crowdfunding campaign is likely to lose much less than an investor in Enron did.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. Check out our starter program.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2010

It’s Internet-powered cash register is offered as subscription to restaurants, brick and mortar shops, retail chains and ‘portable businesses’ such as the stands we often see in the shopping malls. Founded in 2008 by Ms. Emma Butin.

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