Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

The objective of the conference was to understand how APIs will power the next great web and mobile companies and share some best practises in understanding when to use APIs or not and how can API company best market to developers.

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API Fractional CTO CTO Hire San Francisco 48

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. Here’s a quick overview of the ins and outs of getting web work done as an SMB — as always, with tight budgets in mind. Do a web search to find platform-specific tools.

Small Business 104

Small Business Technical Review Social Media Software Review 104

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; Total raised: $5.0mm.

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Andy Dunn of Bonobos , a vertical web retailer, will be driving attention to one of their core values in 2011: Focus on self-awareness, the core trait of leaders, both people and firms. Developing products based on knowledge of our strengths and curating products based on knowledge of our weaknesses.

Stealth 60

Stealth Startup Lean Cofounder 60

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Today we’re announcing that Lightpseed and Accel are investing in Bonobos , a vertically-integrated men’s apparel etailer. We believe that they are the leading pureplay vertically-integrated men’s apparel etailer, and are well positioned, and well capitalized, to expand on their leadership position.

Vertical 113

Vertical eCommerce Curation Acquisition 113

The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Club W: service that provides curated, personalized wine subscription. LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Repairy: web-based customer relationship and resource management system for car repair shops and dealerships.

Founder 136

Founder Brazil Latvia India 136

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 19, 2012

The company that has successfully monetized in the women vertical is Glam Media, but their model is of a Vertical Ad Network. I have shared my thoughts on this topic over and again on my blog, as well as elsewhere on the Web. I happen to know a great deal about this business because of my own long involvement in publishing.

Media 114

Media Jacksonville Entrepreneur Vertical 114

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 15, 2014

There is no doubt that mobile search will surpass desktop search this year and be the primary vertical marketers and small business owners must focus their time. They have our cross device personalized history, manually curated search cards, and real time information. The major question is what will mobile search look like.

Search 71

Search Mobile Marketing United States 71

Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2010

GuruStorms is a new brainstorming site that offers a unique crowdsourcing solution: a curated crowd of gurus that represent the world’s best and brightest online experts. What we are doing is extending the social web into that same arena, creating a new global marketplace for online ideas and knowledge. Who had the idea?

Elevator Pitch 63

Elevator Pitch Curation Vertical Bootstrapping 63

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

I could practically justify my consulting rates just doing dramatic readings of that for the web teams at my clients. There are, of course, other companies which make scads of money from carefully curated email lists. I keep a list of my best work curated. The rest of y’all are missing out, seriously. ” (P.S.

Email 54

Email Software Review Software Campaign 54

pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

But it’s possible that as the secret sauce of new media swings farther from disruptive technology and business models to a focus on curated and quality content, it’s the older entrepreneurs who are in the pole position. Sarah Lacy is the founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily. 25 comments. 0 people listening. 2:1 to old folks.

Entrepreneur 45

Entrepreneur San Francisco Silicon Valley Technical Review 45

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

What started as a web site to trade laser pointers and Beanie Babies (the Pez dispenser start is quite literally a legend), today enables transactions of approximately $100B per year. In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

Useful Glossaries For Web Designers and Developers – [link]. The State of Web Development 2010 – [link]. Anatomy of Colors in Web Design: Black – A Representation of Style & Mystery – [link]. 20 Fabulous Photoshop Web Interface Tutorials – [link]. Logo Design Trends 2010 – [link].

Social Media 88

Social Media Small Business Design Media 88

designshack.co.uk

JUNE 8, 2011

Home Gallery Articles Accessibility Business Critique CSS Freebies Graphics HTML Inspiration Interviews JavaScript Layouts Navigation PHP Reviews Software Typography Web Standards Deals Submit Submit a Design Design Dilemma Why get an account? It is carefully curated and edited by Josh Johnson and David Appleyard.

Audio 53

Audio PHP Web Design 53

A Crowded Space

AUGUST 11, 2014

So, you look for some supply aggregators like a Web design firm in India to offer the supply you need to get off the ground. Focus on a vertical  You started with anything? Curate one side. One way to make things function reasonably well at low volumes is to curate one side. Curation is really important.

Aggregator 101

Aggregator Curation Demand Portfolio 101

VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

Resources abound online, but the noise-to-signal ratio is high, and the content needs to be verified and curated. So he teamed up with a few PhDs and set off to write a book about each major vertical – Healthcare, Technology Media and Telecom, Energy and Industrials, Retail and Consumer Goods, etc. A 1) Industry reports.

Curation 167

Curation Vertical San Francisco Angel Investor 167

Hunter Walker

APRIL 18, 2013

Many of the video curation/discovery startups were based on two hypotheses: 1. There’s an explosion in web video content (and it’s not all on YouTube) 2. Here’s why: Verticalized content needs context not just collections. Horizontal content needs to solve search not just browse or curation.

Video 98

Video Curation Startup Metadata 98

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

” Introduced a few months ago as an Austin event, I’m now doing this live audio advice column to the web, taking phone calls from startups around the country. And then there’s three relatively new ones that are fast and web based. It’s Episode 3 my little “ Loveline for startups. Jason: Right.

Cofounder 208

Cofounder Technical Review Software Review Differentiation 208

A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

What used to take a web browser and a minute or two now takes a few seconds of voice command. The line of Amazon Basics is incredibly carefully curated, selected, and maintained. You could say this is vertical integration or a move to full-stack or managed marketplaces. Relentlessly pursue productivity gains.

Product 60

Product San Francisco Curation Vertical 60

Genuine VC

DECEMBER 23, 2009

” If you were to count off the major trends on the web today, fragmentation (both publisher and resulting audience traffic) would be near the top of the list. And this strategy of building a series of publications around vertical topics plays right into this movement.

Arkansas 100

Arkansas Algorithm Advertising Audience 100

Genuine VC

DECEMBER 23, 2009

” If you were to count off the major trends on the web today, fragmentation (both publisher and resulting audience traffic) would be near the top of the list. And this strategy of building a series of publications around vertical topics plays right into this movement.

Arkansas 100

Arkansas Algorithm Advertising Audience 100

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web. Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football. A local example was the Greenhouse pop up restaurant in Melbourne by Joost Baker – Which included vertical gardens and large amounts of material re-purposing.

Uruguay 123

Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

The Next Web

MAY 26, 2013

Craigslist , that ugly set of electric-blue links that still stands around like an exhibit from the museum of early web design. Curation of content: The platform should have a mechanism for separating signal from noise. Curation of participants: Platforms may need to have a mechanism for determining reputation of participants.

Curation 126

Curation Vertical Reputation Hosting 126

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. But if you’re out there trying to compete in that market … Back at that time, all the software vendors had tons of content, web pages, YouTube videos, about what?

Singapore 43

Singapore Government Silicon Valley Software Review 43