Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Nothing I can tell you about the importance of having an incredible mobile strategy will surprise you. Mobile devices (phones, tablets, wearables) are transforming how we behave, how we buy, how we consume content, and dare I say how we become happy or we become sad. The only reason good old digital is beating TV is mobile.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 24, 2020

” I’m met with silence, then a very loud version of AC/DC’s Highway to Hell playing on the radio. There are lots of dead, old mobile phones around the edge, but none are mine. I’m being tossed around in the passenger seat of a car with a blindfold on. As I shout out to the driver, “Where are we going?”

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

I also see Sagoon continuing to innovate in the technology space as we further build out our technology lab to focus on solving consumer issues related to both social media and our mobile devices.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Entrepreneurs used these data to create weather newscasts, websites, mobile applications, insurance, and much more. and securely share their medical histories with caregivers, import their prescription histories into mobile reminder apps, and more. Similarly, the Green Button team at the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

million in funding on TechCrunch led by Harmony Partners and Upfront Ventures to double its footprint of 3 cities (New York, Chicago & Washington DC) to 6 in 2016. We quietly then launched furniture in Chicago and Washington DC and – BOOM – game changer. There are no easy answers. The Perfect Storm.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 9, 2011

Aside from startups, virtual office solutions are often the choice for businesses looking to reduce costs and align their workplace with business needs, the mobile worker, and the home-based workforce of businesses in need of leveraging their professional image and network. “Co-working

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 23, 2015

We’re thrilled to announce our newest investment: Headout , an on-demand mobile concierge that helps travellers discover and book last-minute activities during vacations at great prices. As frequent travelers, we have been watching this space for a while, but most players took a web-first, mobile-second approach. In this $1.8M

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 6, 2011

Looking back 19 years ago (1992), I realize that I had my first cell phone, dial up access to bulletin boards, a love affair with email, and was doing consulting for AT&T on Apple’s first mobile computing device, the Newton. In short, nearly 20 years ago, the fingerprints of the future were evident in the present.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. Software Engineer—PHP—Energy Software for the Smart Grid @ Agentis Energy (Elmhurst, IL) Sr.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 26, 2011

If you check out this year’s agenda , you’ll find everything from mobile to cloud computing to tech policy in DC to my own keynote on Resistance Is Futile. Defrag has become one of the cannot-miss events of the tech conference world.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Pick a similar product that they do use, and ask them "who was the first person you know who started using [social networking, mobile phones, plasma TV, instant messaging.]? For companies in the early-adopter phase, you can play "the earlyvangelist game" whenever a customer turns out to be too mainstream for your product.

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Right now you could sign up for a Twitter account and search for every person in MD, DC, VA, and DE who has the words “software&# or “programmer&# or “hacker&# in their bio. They won’t even hear about your efforts with #3. But some of them are on Twitter and other platforms. But.where are the ladies? Catchy tune.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2017

At a recent event at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler spoke about his vision for our mobile future and clearly outlined three factors that we must be cognizant of maintain U.S. Therefore, we must have the right foundation for all of that mobile technology to run.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 15, 2010

Every couple months, 700-1000 web & mobile entrepreneurs, techies, startup junkies, and investors gather for one big meetup of the community. It’s open to everyone in the entrepreneurial web and mobile community here in Boston and outside it.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

In other words, things are humming along as usual in Washington DC! ” “Washington will micromanage the entire industry.” ” Interestingly, history has proven these arguments to be wrong time and again.

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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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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Prior to Sisu, Yarina founded a medical device non-profit working with rural mobile clinics in India. of investment raised has come from the Baltimore/DC area. Yarina, Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global, was recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Healthcare, one of many awards the company has received for its work.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2013

They’ve done work for games developer Square Enix , Sony Online Entertainment , DC Comics , and publisher Random House amongst many others, and this year they celebrate their eighth year in the industry. The mobile gaming/app development industry is a shining example of this interesting “less can be more” philosophy.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2016

Chaia was the result of our matched style toward food and our wish to bring seasonal, vegetable cuisine to DC. Bento Box – our mobile-friendly website was created by them to help drive revenue and customers. Bettina Stern: My business partner Suzanne Simon and I have been cooking together for many years.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 15, 2010

Every couple months, 700-1000 web & mobile entrepreneurs, techies, startup junkies, and investors gather for one big meetup of the community. It’s open to everyone in the entrepreneurial web and mobile community here in Boston and outside it.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 21, 2011

A few weeks back I met Dave, founder of Mike and Cookies , a start-up food truck company in Metro DC. Its business began to shift toward the more upscale mobile food emporiums in 2007, says Arthur Djahani, general manager of Armenco Cater Truck Manufacturing Co. Myrick, editor-in-chief of Mobile Cuisine Magazine.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 16, 2015

Other: 2U (DC), Kabbage (ATL), Open English (MIA), OpenX (LA), OPOWER (DC), Yik Yak (ATL).' Public: Akamai, Care.com, Demandware, EMC, EnerNOC, Hubspot, iRobot, Kayak/Priceline, Trip Advisor, Wayfair. SEA: Avalara, Julep, Juno, Koru, Peach, Porch, Pro, Refin, Zulilly. CO: LogRhythm, Rally, Sympoz, Webroot.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 5, 2011

NYC 2.0: Post 2001 crash, the NYC tech community rallied, the tech meetup got started, as did a number of companies utilizing NYC’s domain strengths in financial services, advertising, media and mobile. The NYC Tech Meetup represents thousands of constituents that should have a voice, locally and in Washington DC.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2016

Chaia was the result of our matched style toward food and our wish to bring seasonal, vegetable cuisine to DC. Bento Box – our mobile-friendly website was created by them to help drive revenue and customers. Bettina Stern: My business partner Suzanne Simon and I have been cooking together for many years.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

We’re trying to create a startup community that can mobilize to make the government listen and understand the issues that have a unique impact on our community. A few months ago, I joined the Advisory Board of Engine to lend my support to an organization that is doing amazing work for the startup ecosystem.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 16, 2012

For small businesses and big corporate companies alike, mobile is the latest frontier. Yet rather than simply developing a mobile-friendly version of your website or adding a cool e-commerce capability to the mobile user experience, more and more entrepreneurs are wisely delving into the mobile market by developing a smartphone app.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

there is a new mobile app to track or a new digital experience to problem-solve or a crazy online to offline campaign that upends everything unleashes a new layer of tactical activity. Online, offline, mobile, acquisition, brand love, relationships, product pimping, community stewardship and so much more! Then, ask for real analysis.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Of the 8 he accepted, 4 had blossomed into serious ventures by the end of the summer: Loopt , a social-mapping ser vice, now with 4 million users; Reddit, a user-aggregated news site acquired by Condé Nast in 2006; TextPayMe, a mobile payment service bought by Amazon in 2006; and Kiko, thwarted by Google.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

What kind of stuff might I get (Featured logos are Marvel, Capcom, DC etc & a sample box). Take for example this case study on Marketing Sherpa , where Alex Corzo of the Ritz-Carlton was able to boost conversion rates by 40% by sending email subscribers checking emails from their iPhones to mobile optimized landing pages.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

For example, if any of the mobile ad networks gets major traction, they may become a dominant way that people discover new apps. On the iPhone, it seems that two are driving most of the installs: the "newest apps" RSS feed (which may be combined with PR) and a primitive form of SEO, when people search the App Store for a specific kind of app.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

It was my mother's birthday and I was seeing her before I was supposed to go down to DC for the Code for America summit. Erika Reinhardt who is on the core team but has also mobilized and worked with multiple other projects. I have to admit with a great deal of shame, that my daughter begged me not to go on the trip.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Jason Young , co-founder of MindBlown Labs , which makes mobile social games to teach young adults about personal finance. At that point, we decided to do a mobile game. … You know what, those policy makers in DC, they don’t read my papers. Listen to the full interviews by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2019

We don’t know of any other location in DC or elsewhere in the country where multiple government innovation groups are colocated together with startups to create their own center of gravity. We also don’t know of any other location where anyone can just walk up and talk to real soldiers from the Army, Air Force, and DOD.

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www.smashingmagazine.com

MAY 5, 2011

Instead of your second option where the password is revealed then changed on blur, why not go the mobile route? Instead of your second option where the password is revealed then changed on blur, why not go the mobile route? Reply 7 +1 Alex W May 5th, 2011 8:55 am You make some interesting points.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

So there is an opportunity to build new brands with attributes like "the most amazing mobile apps" but I think building a company around that strategy means really thinking through how to do it. No other mobile platform or carrier deck under the sun can offer the amount of user attention and time that the App Store does.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Defining Mobile Opportunities and Strategies. Defining Mobile Opportunities and Strategies. Mobile Content. Mobile Marketing. Zite Expands Its Publisher Program. New Tech Automatically Optimizes Virtual Events for Any Device. Data Drives IT Decision-Making. MOST READ on FOLIO: F+W Acquires Aspire Media. CRM Systems.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on. In Washington DC you have government & defense.

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