VC Cafe

MARCH 21, 2022

Open metaverse: these are the decentralized platforms built on crypto, such as Manticore Games, Sandbox or Decentraland and many others. Crypto gaming can become the biggest onboarding platform to the crypto world and open up that world. An interesting case is Minecraft. Picture: nftculture.com.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Building a website always doesn’t necessarily mean developing a website through complex coding. WordPress is a free and open-source content management system with various templates used for building a website. The Role of Social Media Platforms. The easiest way to be found online is through your website.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 1, 2019

The moon landing drove the creation of software, the integrated circuit and the microchip, it led to the development of CAT scans, it advanced wireless technology, solar panels, fireproof materials, satellites, GPS navigation, laptops, virtual and augmented reality, even the ‘gorilla glass’ on smart phones to name a few.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

You can deal directly with full-time or freelance/contracted employees, or you can outsource using local or offshore development firms. Convenience First and foremost, you must decided whether to work with individuals or development companies. Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP).

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 79

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

When you think about the trends of faster-growing startups due to social networking, credit card enable and mobile first consumers – the reality is that many startups are becoming very large financially before needing to go public. This is a structural shift in our industry few have talked about publicly. The iPhone was released.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 398

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2012

Yongfook, as he is better known in Singapore’s tech entrepreneurship circle (we first wrote about him in 2009 ), is an avid cook and the former director for Japan-based online recipe network Cookpad in charge of its international business. Prior to that, Yongfook founded and sold off his own recipe social network Open Source Food.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

They have completely changed the social network space, managing to innovate new ways to monetize creativity while competing against popular social media platforms. He has been instrumental in the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning, which are key areas of focus for Google. 9- Discord.

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Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review 77

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. to help bloggers and blog readers with comments.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

That is the very month that Facebook became the largest social network, outpacing MySpace. Github is a web based hosting service for software development projects that use Git, a revision control system.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Visit online forums, social networks, and blogs and check customer star rating and comments. Open source software or clone script is also available. As of June 2018, GitHub hosts 57 million open source project repositories. Carry out a thorough research in your area of interest and find out what is lacking.

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Software Review Hosting Intellectual Property Naming 45

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

technologies like social networking, mobile gaming, and interactive advertising, in 2011 new fortunes and legends are being made. social networking hype of 2006-2007. As importantly, because of the rise of global social networking - Facebook now has 300 million non-U.S. Here’s why: 1. Our favorites?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! If you find you need a developer to work with you, do you reach out to a freelancer or do you call an agency? DIY Tools There are quite a few do-it-yourself options for the thrifty entrepreneur.

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Small Business Technical Review Social Media Software Review 104

www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

Thanks to Apples iOS and Googles open source Android OS, smartphone and tablet apps have enjoyed a period of astounding success over the past few years. After launching iOS and Android apps in January 2011, Technology Review ran into development, sales and other difficulties. social media. developers. social media.

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HTML Technical Review Software Review Semantic 69

mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

With development teams often based around the world, being the center of communication and progress can either lead to a tremendously successful strategy or a bottleneck that can slow down an entire company. An Eye for Business Development Your new CTO’s technology vision should fall in line with your overall business strategy.

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Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

Of course CapEx has been transformed into OpEx via changes in the tech infrastructure layer (open source, virtualization & cloud computing, offshoring, etc.). That’s no secret. Small checks now have big power. Seed VC firms are dead… long live Micro VCs. ?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! EFactor The authors of business networking book The N Factor venture up the alphabet a little bit to bring you the EFactor. Thankfully responses aren’t restricted with a character limit.

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Social Media Technical Review Social Network 94

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. GE Campaign Turns YouTube Videos and.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Social Good Is as Easy as Texting 3 Ways Small Businesses are Investing. View More » Jobs Ruby on Rails Developer at Mashable (. GE Campaign Turns YouTube Videos and.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Social Good Is as Easy as Texting 3 Ways Small Businesses are Investing. View More » Jobs Ruby on Rails Developer at Mashable (. View more jobs » Daniel Stoica Awesome Post!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. Sales and marketing costs. Savings can be huge in these areas.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

I was more open to it becoming a real company, but I never really expected it to be a real company from the beginning. We were on an immersion trip to Silicon Valley, and we said, “Let’s find a way to leverage [a previous open source project],” and we decided to build something around that. Prince: Business History.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 20, 2016

What would happen if I forced you to develop all your precious, proprietary, secret-sauce code in a public Github repository? For example, if Etsy open-sourced their entire stack, would that make it easy for a competitor to overtake Etsy? One thing would be: You would be judged.

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Open Source API Framework Salary 120

mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Social Good Is as Easy as Texting 3 Ways Small Businesses are Investing. View More » Jobs Ruby on Rails Developer at Mashable (. GE Campaign Turns YouTube Videos and.

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LLC Social Media Startup Philadelphia 75

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? This means that our products take a lot of time and money to develop, and might have slow adoption rates. People still have to eat, work, etc. so there’s a natural limit to ARPU.

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Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48

blog.socaltech.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

For sure, Apple iOS development skills (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch applications); anything web related (particularly, User Interface/UI talents, web front end work, database backend, etc.); Social media related skills are also big, i.e. Facebook app development, and so on. Buy a Mac and get Apple’s iOS development SDK.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! There’s also a searchable service section with advice on logo design, website development and a service request board if you prefer that providers come to you. JoinSquare at Square, Inc.

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Coder Technical Review Social Media Technical Cofounder 60

mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! 3) Check the social network username site www.knowem.com to see who else is using something similar. Social Good Is as Easy as Texting 3 Ways Small Businesses are Investing.

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Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. Sales and marketing costs. Savings can be huge in these areas.

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Entrepreneur Burn Rate SEM Social Network 235

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Closed for You, Open For Us. China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace.

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San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment 131

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Startups built every possible feature the founding team envisioned (using “Waterfall development,”) into a monolithic “release” of the product taking months or years to build a first product release. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Then go to hacker events and developer meetups. Or even contribute to an open source project. The development community is a friendly one (for the most part) and you’ll often find many people eager to help you out. You can earn the trust of other developers fairly easily if they see you willing to do this.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review Software Review 40

www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Some techies have business sense; most generally don’t have a highly developed one. The most salient one for business people looking for a technical co-founder is this one: Are you looking for an iPhone developer? If you already have an iPhone developer on staff, they can lead the discussion. Social Networking (22).

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Cofounder Technical Review Founder Software Review 40

The Next Web

OCTOBER 30, 2012

When Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton, the creators of the Bootstrap toolkit, announced they were leaving Twitter last month, they promised to continue working on the project, even though it was launched in August 2011 while they were employed at the social networking giant. Today, they have delivered on that promise with Bootstrap 2.2.0.

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Bootstrapping Open Source Framework Social Network 115

Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. Sales and marketing costs. Savings can be huge in these areas.

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Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 139

The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Anyone can say we’re going to add: a mobile version, collaborative filtering, an advertising network, visualizations, a marketplace, a browser plugin, a browser and a social network to their product. Jason was advising on how to demo a product, but this applies equally to investment pitches.

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