crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Almost every possible internet distribution channel has MORE users than ever before – whether it be search, social, mobile, video, local, SMS, email, chat, etc. Who is correct?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Users leave messages for each other through BlockChalk mobile app. Mobile gifting service. Users can send digital Giiv card with store credit (via SMS, for now) that is redeemable at retailer. Competitors: SMS gifting– KangoGift , Online/E-mail gifting: Lottay , GiftCertificates.com. OTHER DEALS: 1. BlockChalk.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 12, 2009

 As I look around post-holiday season, I am seeing more and more regular, non-technical friends and family get connected on their mobile devices.    Clearly that was just the beginning of a longer term trend for mobile devices to get more powerful, easier to use, and more widely deployed into the market. 

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 17, 2011

Of course, for some businesses mobile and text messages (SMS) are synonymous – and not always in a good way. Anyone that has received a spam text message may view that evil activity as the only use of SMS and that would be a shame. The Changing Role of the Phone in Marketing R U Collecting Mobile Phone Numbers Yet?

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

A fortnight ago, Boris interviewed Reed Hastings on his business lessons and experience, but now I’m shaking it up with a look at a 26-year-old founder who is disrupting the mobile and social networking spaces: Kik CEO and founder Ted Livingston. An all-round mobile education. RIM HQ (as was) (credit: Simon Hayter/Getty Images ). “So,

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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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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2021

For a variety of reasons, people transition from paper forms to mobile forms. It’s a race against the clock for companies that are still utilizing paper forms to keep up with their mobile-savvy rivals. Benefits of Using a Mobile Form. Benefits of Using a Mobile Form. Mobile forms are being used.

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aweissman.com

MAY 6, 2015

“Who can unlearn all the facts that I've learned” One way of looking at a publisher’s chain of business operations is that there are five core things it must do: (1) produce content; (2) market/promote content; (3) distribution; (4) figure out the best user interface or experience for its content; (5) and monetize the business.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 21, 2013

Bubba is an early stage investor in consumer internet and mobile technology companies for @DFJvc. On mobile, the strategies and tactics for achieving the above are still nascent. Many of these experiences will be Mobile Only. Mobile first” thinking led some people in the wrong direction when it came to finding users.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 7, 2008 The App Store after the gold rush I wrote earlier about the issue of distribution advantage on the iPhone. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. So what can you do?

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 23, 2014

It means it’s easy enough to develop that eight hours or so is all it takes to build something that can then be distributed/accessed for free by lots of people. Second, it’s the rise of anthropology over algorithm in social mobile apps. This is the way the Internet is supposed to work, no?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

There hasn’t been such a full list of Israeli startups coming to Europe since Barcelona’s World Mobile Congress. Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. Betterview - Company Website. CellBuddy - Company Website.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Formerly known as Adobe SiteCatalyst, the tool has pretty much everything you could want, including real-time analytics, mobile app analytics, funnel tracking, and Predictive Intelligence. For cross device testing, you can emulate a range of mobile environments across Android, Windows and iOS. It’s not cheap.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Social media Mobile 2.0 Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Social media Mobile 2.0 ClairMail – ClairMail provides account management, mobile payments, customer service, and more, all on your mobile phone.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

It is also reducing energy consumption since water production and distribution require a lot of energy, so preventing water loss also prevents this waste. Other winners on the list include check-in site FourSquare (see excellent WSJ article ), mobile directory GetJar and the rest below. OPOWER NetQin Mobile. TaKadu Scribd.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

One of the most important trends in how traffic is distributed on the Internet is that individuals are increasingly able to manipulate, control, even direct their personal network value no matter the platform in which they built their network. Leverage influencers for liquidity. Time shift demand and supply.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2010

POSE has created a Point Of Sale system (POS) for small businesses, which can be operated from PCs, tablets and connected mobile devices. Velocee is a Content Distribution Network (CDN) for mobile which enables carriers to save money by predicting users mobile data usage trend.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2017

While many Indians are unbanked, mobile phone adoption is on the rise. India has about 200 million mobile subscribers and is adding 5 million new users monthly. What are mobile payments? Mobile payment technology removes the need for direct access to a bank or credit union.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

A bout 50,000 visitors from 200 countries are expected to attend the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, starting tomorrow February 15th. Green: low-energy consuming phones and products for using the mobile as an energy monitoring device in the house. Cost control & mobile least cost routing implementation.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. Use a mobile phone to transfer money? And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? One such conversation was with a doctor from Burma.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. Use a mobile phone to transfer money? And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? One such conversation was with a doctor from Burma.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. Use a mobile phone to transfer money? And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? One such conversation was with a doctor from Burma.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

The Mobile World Congress , possibly the largest International technology conference and definitely the most important mobile conference of the year is taking place in Barcelona this February 14-17. Mobile Apps and App stores – a new ecosystem was created and it’s here to stay (Check out LogiaGroup, Waze and Cellint).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Or in utility speak, they are transmission and we are last-mile distribution. Or the ability of the Center for Disease Control to be able to track pandemic distribution of viruses. Since SMS has a maximum length of 160 characters, Twitter decided to limit you to 140 characters so that 20 could be reserved for other things.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

When we launched the first version, what we tried to prove at first was that patients would actually want this technology driven, mobile app driven, customer experience, and to prove that, we started accepting patients, but we couldn't tell them that the service was going to be free. ER : Really smart. And they were really struggling.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Blogs (web development): Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots – [link] Company blog of thoughtbot covering Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, Javascript, databases, and mobile development. Simple editing. Reply Allison , on February 28, 2011 at 10:40 am said: Thanks for including Grasshopper in your list Steve!

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Twilio : Need to call/txt get a phone number from your web/mobile application? Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Today, Syria shut down the Internet nationwide Sand are limiting the functionality of mobile services and land lines in some cities as well. Chinese mobile carrier China Telecom Corp. Chill Direct: Direct to fan content distribution. RingCentral embraces text messages with new SMS tools. Source AP via Twitter ]. -

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