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Ideeli.com is another popular flash sale site, as is RueLaLa.com. I’m surprised that Net-a-Porter.com , a high end fashion retailer with a mens focused site called MrPorter.com , hasn’t launched a flash sale site, although they do have a site called OutNet.com that mimics many of the attributes of a flash sale site. MORE
The Boulder Fiber Forever project to bring Google’s 1 Gbps fiber network to Boulder is having a flash mob at the Walnut Brewery (1123 Walnut Street) today (Sunday) from 3pm – 6pm. Come join us, but first go to Boulderfiber.com and add your support for the effort. Then, head over the the Walnut Brewery between 3pm and 6pm, mention Boulderfiber, and get pints of some of the best beer in Boulder for $2.25. I’m running to town from Eldo today and should be there around 5pm. I’ll see you there. MORE
Recognizing that this explosion of storage growth cannot be managed by legacy infrastructure, both investors and storage vendors are betting on flash memory as the technology to keep pace with the growing data challenges faced by enterprises. MORE
PernixData introduces a software-defined “Flash Virtualization Platform” that aggregates and virtualizes flash storage distributed across servers into a scale-out data tier for enterprise data centers to provide low cost, deterministic high performance to any out-of-box application. MORE
Wix , the Israel-based flash website platform, has announced a D round of $40 million. In an article we published on VC Cafe in October 2007, “ Goodbye HTML, Hello Flash “, the company’s main product was simple flash sites that required no programming skills. MORE
By flashing the same light on every start-up’s potential for gains and losses, you enable all deserving start-ups to shine and you maximize returns in the process.” While there have been many words written about gender bias in the context of entrepreneurship and funding, I thought the following TED Talk from Dana Kanze presented one of the best frames of references, supported by a real research study, that I’ve seen to date. MORE
If you are in Boulder, come to my community hours today between 1 and 5 at the Boulder Bookstore on Pearl Street. David Cohen ( TechStars CEO and co-author of Do More Faster ) and I will be hanging out all afternoon, talking to whoever shows up about anything that is on your mind, and signing copies of Do More Faster until the Boulder Bookstore runs out of them. MORE
On my eLearning blog, I recently predicted the Beginning of Long Slow Death of Flash. The conversation around Flash is an important one for startups and CTOs. Someone said: "I am not sure I am ready to bet on the long slow death of Flash just yet." What does it mean to "place bets" on death of Flash? Do we include Flex or Flash as a delivery technology? I'm not betting that Flash is dead in five years. I'm hedging by NOT betting on Flash. MORE
In parallel it has denigrated Adobe’s Flash (albeit with some justice) as being insufficient for purpose while establishing a pro-HTML5 position as the ‘best’ way to move forwards. I guess we should thank Apple for forcing the Flash vs. HTML5 issue and then imposing a punitive licensing scheme on their app store… both of which have conspired to catapult HTML5 into the foreground for developments of applications which have web and mobile experiences. MORE
his week, 70,000 attendees will descend on Barcelona for the annual mobile techie Fiesta known as the Mobile World Congress. Among the 1500 exhibitors, more than 10% are from Israel, the third largest contingent of any country at the show. [[ This is a content summary only. MORE
Convenience for the customer and control for the business owner – this is what Flash Valet introduced today for the parking industry. If you live in Austin, you might have noticed your parking receipt, or the valet stand having the "Flash Valet" logo for the past several months. Continue reading → Mobile austin flash valetEvery driver has wanted to drop their car off with the valet on a night out but couldn’t because they didn’t have any cash. MORE
We tried to keep the list short but sweet by splitting the list between non-Flash based online editors and those that require the plugin since it will no longer be supported by Adobe from 2020 onwards. Recommended (non-Flash based). Notable Mentions (Flash-based). MORE
PernixData announced the general availability of the Flash Virtualization Platform (FVP) today. Congratulation to Poojan Kumar , Satyam Vaghani and the entire PernixData team for an amazing execution! It’s hard to believe how far the company has come along in just 18 months since founding. MORE
Skip the flash (and Flash). If you’re going to err, use them too much rather than too little, except for a Flash front-end and popups. Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered. MORE
Before Tweet-ups, before flash mobs, before raves, before disco, there were Happenings. Creativity and Self-Expression Innovation Pop Culture Trends, Futurism, and Research Allan Kaprow Alternate Pieta Anne Manning Boston Burning Man Cincinnati Creativity disco Drum Circle Dustin Hoffman FEI Boston FEI USA flash mobs George Segal Ginsberg Happening 5.16 MORE
Flash Networks. Flash Networks’ HarmonyTM Web & Media Optimization and Traffic Management provide operators with comprehensive, end-to-end, policy-based solutions that successfully manage traffic growth, while enhancing user experience even during the busy-hour period. MORE
If there’s a sure sign that shows how interest in online flash sales have waned, it’s how many daily deal sites have either deadpooled or pivoted away from that particular business model. In the News business model daily deals flash sales luxury travel Singapore TheLuxeNomad MORE
There is far more to read in this piece if you are interested in the state of higher education in America — including positive actions such as UVA’s twitter based ‘flash seminar’ experiment. Tags: American Exceptionalism Campus Eco-System Education Policy entrepreneurship policy entrepreneurship Edupunk TIAA-CREF Institute Mark David Milliron flash seminars William Kirwan MORE
Customers actually responded more favorably to “last-minute deals”, flash sale concept than they did to “everyday low prices”. Here’s a brief guide to organizing and running a successful ecommerce flash sale. Ecommerce Flash Sales: The Basics. What is a flash sale, exactly? MORE
Your Website Still Uses Flash. Once upon a digital time, Flash technology revolutionized web design by allowing designers to incorporate animated content into their designs. Since then, the development of HTML5 has made Flash obsolete. MORE
It was a normal day in February, well until 3.30pm which is when I had the most amazing phone call with Daniel Burrus, author of Flash Foresight, a brilliant book that should be on your reading list without a doubt. MORE
Your Website Still Uses Flash. Once upon a digital time, Flash technology revolutionized web design by allowing designers to incorporate animated content into their designs. Since then, the development of HTML5 has made Flash obsolete. MORE
Last week another Austin-based flash buying Groupon competitor launched, named Spreadsy. Like Ron Conway , I truly believe that the social commerce/flash marketing space is a megatrend that’s here to stay. Tags: Consumer coupons flash buying spreadsy They join other Austin competitors Adealio , Localiter , eDealTickets , and coming soon a similar offering from ValPak (the people who mail you those blue envelopes with coupons). MORE
More Flash. Everyone seems to predict more flash, so what’s new? This will drive the use of flash and memory as the primary storage medium since you cannot process edge resolutions fast enough otherwise. MORE
The flash buying meme is definitely hot, with several companies in this market being based in Austin and over 100 nationwide. Tags: Consumer adealio dallas flash buying Austin-based aDealio.com announced that they’re expanding service from their Austin roots to the Dallas market. What remains to be seen is who can scale, innovate, and survive a crowded market. Regional expansion is certainly the first piece of that puzzle. MORE
His current company Read in a Flash is building a platform for transforming children’s books into interactive learning applications on the iPad. Tags: Events Featured read in a flash tech ranch venture forth On October 14th Tech Ranch will be hosting a Venture Pitch event, where 10 entrepreneurs will be pitching their idea to a panel including a potential customer, a proven entrepreneur, and a seasoned investor. One of those entrepreneurs is Brian Moeskau. MORE
Skip the flash (and Flash). If you’re going to err, use them too much rather than too little, except for a Flash front-end and popups. Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered. MORE
The post Startup Opportunities Flash Sale – Today Only For $0.99 My newest book, Startup Opportunities: Know When to Quit Your Day Job , is available via Kindle for $0.99 today. If you are a fan of my books, a friend, or just someone who is interested in startups, buy a copy today. MORE
At Lightspeed, we had identified the flash storage trend in early 2007 with an investment in Pliant Technology, a manufacturer of SSDs that was later acquired by SanDisk. Today is an exciting day for Nimble Storage. MORE
A “flawless” Flash experience with Adobe on its PlayBook, Bing support from Microsoft and Facebook’s first tablet app. There was quite a crowd this week in Orlando at Blackberry World. IBM announced its Global Financing unit will now fund tablets. Industry Commentary MORE
I’m surprised that Apple has decided not to support Adobe Flash on the iPad. Tags: Innovation Marketing Adobe Android Apple Application Development consumers Creativity Droid Flash iPad iPhone loyalty Mac Motorola Photoshop Why would Apple want to cramp its own innovation by not supporting the world’s most popular media player? MORE
Marketing and branding Small business bounce rate branding flash marketing responsive design search engine rankings web designYour online presence is vitally important to your business and your brand. MORE
Flash for mobile is dead. Can Flash for desktops be far behind? For years, Flash has enjoyed a monopoly that is comparable to Microsoft in the past and Google now. If anything, HTML5 adoption will likely accelerate, ironically because of Adobe’s abandoning Flash for mobiles. MORE
Late Thursday, an extraordinary thing happened: Adobe announced in a blog post that it would not provide Flash Player support for devices running Android 4.1 , and that it would pull the plugin from the Google Play store on August 15. The Flash Issue Isn’t Just About Mobile. MORE
Instead, the original vision has quietly been realized by Adobe Flash. Site operators (notably, Youtube in 2005) discovered Flash was the best way to get in-browser video. The growth of Internet video cemented Flash’s position as a ubiquitous browser-plug in. Most of my developer friends reject Flash as “ an animation system, with a crappy scripting language “ They were probably right 3-4 years ago, but not any more. MORE
Skip the flash (and Flash). If you’re going to err, use them too much rather than too little, except for a Flash front-end and popups. Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered. MORE
With limited processing power (requests/sec), SANs struggle when faced with flash, the solid-state drive revolution that is on the horizon. A single flash drive worth $3K, with its vulgarly high IOs/sec, will exhaust the processing power of an entire SAN that is worth $500K. MORE
As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews, we sat down with Lee Thompson and Radha Vyas, the co-founders of Flash Pack , a lifestyle travel company specialising in adventure trips for solo travelers in their 30’s – 40’s. . What does Flash Pack do? MORE
But all of those people are following the flash of inspiration that started their activity, and it is that flash we seek to reproduce again and again in a successful enterprise. Here’s one for debate around a cup of coffee or a glass of wine. MORE
News flash. It’s time to turn all of that copy into sales via content strategy! What’s your BtoB Content Strategy, Anyway? It’s 2015 and time to use your BtoB content to get the best results possible. Sure, you have great blogs, expert insights, social-media posts, articles, newsletters, and more. You have pages and pages of […]. The post You have great, BtoB content. Now what? appeared first on Boost sales with BtoB Content Strategy, SEO and PR here. MORE
Flash Boys was a good capstone to the last week of wallowing in the global financial crisis of 2008, which I began by watching the movie The Big Short. But, once again, after reading Flash Boys, the cliche “Wall Street Always Wins” rings true in my brain. The post Book: Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt appeared first on Feld Thoughts. A cliche I’ve heard many times is “Wall Street Always Wins.” MORE
Apple is in talks to acquire Israeli flash maker Anobit for a rumored $400-$500 million, according to a report by Calcalist. It was an attempt to dodge a question about running Flash animation on the iPhone, but the principle is the same. MORE
Flash mobs. There’s no better way to capture the attention of a great number of people at the same time than staging a flash mob. by Nate Vickery, editor-in-chief of Bizzmarkblog.com. MORE
Flash Related Topics The Startup Magazine
OCTOBER 5, 2018
As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews, we sat down with Lee Thompson and Radha Vyas, the co-founders of Flash Pack , a lifestyle travel company specialising in adventure trips for solo travelers in their 30’s – 40’s. . What does Flash Pack do?
Feld Thoughts
JULY 10, 2017
The post Startup Opportunities Flash Sale – Today Only For $0.99 My newest book, Startup Opportunities: Know When to Quit Your Day Job , is available via Kindle for $0.99 today. If you are a fan of my books, a friend, or just someone who is interested in startups, buy a copy today.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 8, 2016
Flash Boys was a good capstone to the last week of wallowing in the global financial crisis of 2008, which I began by watching the movie The Big Short. But, once again, after reading Flash Boys, the cliche “Wall Street Always Wins” rings true in my brain. The post Book: Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt appeared first on Feld Thoughts. A cliche I’ve heard many times is “Wall Street Always Wins.”
The Startup Magazine
JULY 16, 2018
Customers actually responded more favorably to “last-minute deals”, flash sale concept than they did to “everyday low prices”. Here’s a brief guide to organizing and running a successful ecommerce flash sale. Ecommerce Flash Sales: The Basics. What is a flash sale, exactly?
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 4, 2014
If there’s a sure sign that shows how interest in online flash sales have waned, it’s how many daily deal sites have either deadpooled or pivoted away from that particular business model. In the News business model daily deals flash sales luxury travel Singapore TheLuxeNomad
SoCal CTO
MAY 7, 2010
On my eLearning blog, I recently predicted the Beginning of Long Slow Death of Flash. The conversation around Flash is an important one for startups and CTOs. Someone said: "I am not sure I am ready to bet on the long slow death of Flash just yet." What does it mean to "place bets" on death of Flash? Do we include Flex or Flash as a delivery technology? I'm not betting that Flash is dead in five years. I'm hedging by NOT betting on Flash.
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 4, 2010
If you are in Boulder, come to my community hours today between 1 and 5 at the Boulder Bookstore on Pearl Street. David Cohen ( TechStars CEO and co-author of Do More Faster ) and I will be hanging out all afternoon, talking to whoever shows up about anything that is on your mind, and signing copies of Do More Faster until the Boulder Bookstore runs out of them.
Austin Startup
MAY 22, 2012
Convenience for the customer and control for the business owner – this is what Flash Valet introduced today for the parking industry. If you live in Austin, you might have noticed your parking receipt, or the valet stand having the "Flash Valet" logo for the past several months. Continue reading → Mobile austin flash valetEvery driver has wanted to drop their car off with the valet on a night out but couldn’t because they didn’t have any cash.
Life Beyond Code
MARCH 10, 2011
It was a normal day in February, well until 3.30pm which is when I had the most amazing phone call with Daniel Burrus, author of Flash Foresight, a brilliant book that should be on your reading list without a doubt.
techcrunch.com
JUNE 30, 2012
Late Thursday, an extraordinary thing happened: Adobe announced in a blog post that it would not provide Flash Player support for devices running Android 4.1 , and that it would pull the plugin from the Google Play store on August 15. The Flash Issue Isn’t Just About Mobile.
Austin Startup
JUNE 17, 2010
Last week another Austin-based flash buying Groupon competitor launched, named Spreadsy. Like Ron Conway , I truly believe that the social commerce/flash marketing space is a megatrend that’s here to stay. Tags: Consumer coupons flash buying spreadsy They join other Austin competitors Adealio , Localiter , eDealTickets , and coming soon a similar offering from ValPak (the people who mail you those blue envelopes with coupons).
Altgate
NOVEMBER 14, 2011
Flash for mobile is dead. Can Flash for desktops be far behind? For years, Flash has enjoyed a monopoly that is comparable to Microsoft in the past and Google now. If anything, HTML5 adoption will likely accelerate, ironically because of Adobe’s abandoning Flash for mobiles.
This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 31, 2010
Andrew Payne
FEBRUARY 1, 2009
Instead, the original vision has quietly been realized by Adobe Flash. Site operators (notably, Youtube in 2005) discovered Flash was the best way to get in-browser video. The growth of Internet video cemented Flash’s position as a ubiquitous browser-plug in. Most of my developer friends reject Flash as “ an animation system, with a crappy scripting language “ They were probably right 3-4 years ago, but not any more.
Venture Chronicles
JANUARY 18, 2012
Ideeli.com is another popular flash sale site, as is RueLaLa.com. I’m surprised that Net-a-Porter.com , a high end fashion retailer with a mens focused site called MrPorter.com , hasn’t launched a flash sale site, although they do have a site called OutNet.com that mimics many of the attributes of a flash sale site.
VC Cafe
DECEMBER 13, 2011
Apple is in talks to acquire Israeli flash maker Anobit for a rumored $400-$500 million, according to a report by Calcalist. It was an attempt to dodge a question about running Flash animation on the iPhone, but the principle is the same.
VC Cafe
FEBRUARY 25, 2013
his week, 70,000 attendees will descend on Barcelona for the annual mobile techie Fiesta known as the Mobile World Congress. Among the 1500 exhibitors, more than 10% are from Israel, the third largest contingent of any country at the show. [[ This is a content summary only.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
Recognizing that this explosion of storage growth cannot be managed by legacy infrastructure, both investors and storage vendors are betting on flash memory as the technology to keep pace with the growing data challenges faced by enterprises.
crowdSPRING Blog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
Marketing and branding Small business bounce rate branding flash marketing responsive design search engine rankings web designYour online presence is vitally important to your business and your brand.
crowdSPRING Blog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
Your Website Still Uses Flash. Once upon a digital time, Flash technology revolutionized web design by allowing designers to incorporate animated content into their designs. Since then, the development of HTML5 has made Flash obsolete.
crowdSPRING Blog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
Your Website Still Uses Flash. Once upon a digital time, Flash technology revolutionized web design by allowing designers to incorporate animated content into their designs. Since then, the development of HTML5 has made Flash obsolete.
VC Cafe
MARCH 28, 2011
Wix , the Israel-based flash website platform, has announced a D round of $40 million. In an article we published on VC Cafe in October 2007, “ Goodbye HTML, Hello Flash “, the company’s main product was simple flash sites that required no programming skills.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
With limited processing power (requests/sec), SANs struggle when faced with flash, the solid-state drive revolution that is on the horizon. A single flash drive worth $3K, with its vulgarly high IOs/sec, will exhaust the processing power of an entire SAN that is worth $500K.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
MAY 9, 2011
Before Tweet-ups, before flash mobs, before raves, before disco, there were Happenings. Creativity and Self-Expression Innovation Pop Culture Trends, Futurism, and Research Allan Kaprow Alternate Pieta Anne Manning Boston Burning Man Cincinnati Creativity disco Drum Circle Dustin Hoffman FEI Boston FEI USA flash mobs George Segal Ginsberg Happening 5.16
VC Cafe
JANUARY 16, 2011
Flash Networks. Flash Networks’ HarmonyTM Web & Media Optimization and Traffic Management provide operators with comprehensive, end-to-end, policy-based solutions that successfully manage traffic growth, while enhancing user experience even during the busy-hour period.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
MAY 10, 2010
I’m surprised that Apple has decided not to support Adobe Flash on the iPad. Tags: Innovation Marketing Adobe Android Apple Application Development consumers Creativity Droid Flash iPad iPhone loyalty Mac Motorola Photoshop Why would Apple want to cramp its own innovation by not supporting the world’s most popular media player?
Austin Startup
OCTOBER 12, 2010
His current company Read in a Flash is building a platform for transforming children’s books into interactive learning applications on the iPad. Tags: Events Featured read in a flash tech ranch venture forth On October 14th Tech Ranch will be hosting a Venture Pitch event, where 10 entrepreneurs will be pitching their idea to a panel including a potential customer, a proven entrepreneur, and a seasoned investor. One of those entrepreneurs is Brian Moeskau.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
Skip the flash (and Flash). If you’re going to err, use them too much rather than too little, except for a Flash front-end and popups. Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered.
The Startup Magazine
NOVEMBER 12, 2018
More Flash. Everyone seems to predict more flash, so what’s new? This will drive the use of flash and memory as the primary storage medium since you cannot process edge resolutions fast enough otherwise.
Austin Startup
JUNE 29, 2010
The flash buying meme is definitely hot, with several companies in this market being based in Austin and over 100 nationwide. Tags: Consumer adealio dallas flash buying Austin-based aDealio.com announced that they’re expanding service from their Austin roots to the Dallas market. What remains to be seen is who can scale, innovate, and survive a crowded market. Regional expansion is certainly the first piece of that puzzle.
Campus Entrepreneurship
NOVEMBER 5, 2010
There is far more to read in this piece if you are interested in the state of higher education in America — including positive actions such as UVA’s twitter based ‘flash seminar’ experiment. Tags: American Exceptionalism Campus Eco-System Education Policy entrepreneurship policy entrepreneurship Edupunk TIAA-CREF Institute Mark David Milliron flash seminars William Kirwan
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 30, 2016
Skip the flash (and Flash). If you’re going to err, use them too much rather than too little, except for a Flash front-end and popups. Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 15, 2019
By flashing the same light on every start-up’s potential for gains and losses, you enable all deserving start-ups to shine and you maximize returns in the process.” While there have been many words written about gender bias in the context of entrepreneurship and funding, I thought the following TED Talk from Dana Kanze presented one of the best frames of references, supported by a real research study, that I’ve seen to date.
deal architect
MAY 5, 2011
A “flawless” Flash experience with Adobe on its PlayBook, Bing support from Microsoft and Facebook’s first tablet app. There was quite a crowd this week in Orlando at Blackberry World. IBM announced its Global Financing unit will now fund tablets. Industry Commentary
Lightspeed Venture Partners
FEBRUARY 20, 2013
PernixData introduces a software-defined “Flash Virtualization Platform” that aggregates and virtualizes flash storage distributed across servers into a scale-out data tier for enterprise data centers to provide low cost, deterministic high performance to any out-of-box application.
Venture Chronicles
AUGUST 11, 2011
In parallel it has denigrated Adobe’s Flash (albeit with some justice) as being insufficient for purpose while establishing a pro-HTML5 position as the ‘best’ way to move forwards. I guess we should thank Apple for forcing the Flash vs. HTML5 issue and then imposing a punitive licensing scheme on their app store… both of which have conspired to catapult HTML5 into the foreground for developments of applications which have web and mobile experiences.
Rembrandt Communications
MARCH 19, 2015
News flash. It’s time to turn all of that copy into sales via content strategy! What’s your BtoB Content Strategy, Anyway? It’s 2015 and time to use your BtoB content to get the best results possible. Sure, you have great blogs, expert insights, social-media posts, articles, newsletters, and more. You have pages and pages of […]. The post You have great, BtoB content. Now what? appeared first on Boost sales with BtoB Content Strategy, SEO and PR here.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
DECEMBER 13, 2013
At Lightspeed, we had identified the flash storage trend in early 2007 with an investment in Pliant Technology, a manufacturer of SSDs that was later acquired by SanDisk. Today is an exciting day for Nimble Storage.
Berkonomics
APRIL 16, 2015
But all of those people are following the flash of inspiration that started their activity, and it is that flash we seek to reproduce again and again in a successful enterprise. Here’s one for debate around a cup of coffee or a glass of wine.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
AUGUST 6, 2013
PernixData announced the general availability of the Flash Virtualization Platform (FVP) today. Congratulation to Poojan Kumar , Satyam Vaghani and the entire PernixData team for an amazing execution! It’s hard to believe how far the company has come along in just 18 months since founding.
Kodorra
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
We tried to keep the list short but sweet by splitting the list between non-Flash based online editors and those that require the plugin since it will no longer be supported by Adobe from 2020 onwards. Recommended (non-Flash based). Notable Mentions (Flash-based).
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 19, 2013
Skip the flash (and Flash). If you’re going to err, use them too much rather than too little, except for a Flash front-end and popups. Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 16, 2017
Flash mobs. There’s no better way to capture the attention of a great number of people at the same time than staging a flash mob. by Nate Vickery, editor-in-chief of Bizzmarkblog.com.
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