YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2015

It aims to one day expand into a media company; this objective appears more probable as GoPro’s sales continue to increase at a steady rate. Although Netflix’s domestic video subscriptions have slumped somewhat, its global expansion appears to have compensated for any revenue losses tracked within the past few months.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. When we first moved to San Francisco, they helped us find office space, introduced us to investors and worked with us on architecting a successful Series A.”

Early Stage 70

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

He built & IPOd Demand Media. Aren’t some of the recent successes in Los Angeles just emblematic of the overall long tech boom we’ve seen nationally and has led to growth in funding in NY, Boston, Seattle and San Francisco? He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite. It is different.

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Seattle 376

Feld Thoughts

JULY 6, 2010

More jobs – this time in San Francisco. How do you build and operate a system that makes complex decisions in less then 50 milliseconds with a global QPS soon to be measured in the hundreds of thousands? If you are the sort of engineer that gets excited by this type of scale and latency then Triggit is hiring.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

If you attract names like these you’re bound to attract some media attention and then Chad Hurley dropped the bomb that he was leaving YouTube while he was at the f.ounders event. I have a hard enough time persuading people to fly from San Francisco to LA for an event let alone half way around the world.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Media and event company Women 2.0 First started in San Francisco, Founder Friday events draw an average of 350 attendees and take place the first Friday of every month, providing the opportunity for female entrepreneurs to interconnect while listening to valuable keynote speeches from local female founders. To date, Women 2.0

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San Francisco San Diego Partner Mexico 182

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

I would categorize these champions in two camps: the “Local Champions” and the “Global Champions”. A few facts on Big Data I took advantage of this keynote to highlight a few areas where we see a lot of opportunities globally and in particular for Eastern European start-ups: Big Data, Cloud Computing and Mobile.

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Brandanew

JULY 17, 2015

Are you a social media enthusiast longing to network with those from your field? Or someone who is setting foot in the marketing world because they found social media to be their calling? A biggie or newbie, here are 7 social media events in 2015 most that you can still make it to if your decisions are made at the speed of light.

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Social Media San Francisco Media Massachusetts 100

Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As a business lawyer working with startups in technology and digital media every day, I’m fortunate to have a front-row seat as entrepreneurs create value out of thin air. Political candidates can give all the stump speeches they want, but ultimately, the prescription is simple (though not easy): Entrepreneurial innovation.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M. During today's roundtable, we had some excellent discussions of product marketing for a couple of different concepts. The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr. Taariq, please note!

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A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Hyped companies draw eyeballs, and media businesses are about getting lots of eyeballs. Sometimes they are just building software for unsexy industries like the $380 billion global shipping industry. We have founders and wonderful portfolio companies in Seattle, San Diego, Chicago, and Atlanta. Why is that?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

You just have to look at things like how many international businesses there are, the rise of global media, and the increase in freedom of movement across nations to see that the world is becoming increasingly borderless. This growing globalization is massively driven by enterprise. Global Advantages of Outsourcing.

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San Francisco Securities and Exchange Commission Myanmar Startup 135

View from Seed

JULY 21, 2022

There’s an overlooked sector of creators made up of service providers that see content creation and social media just as a means to gain clients so they can focus on their trade. However, these tools are all tailored for creators who are focused on content creation and influencing as their end goal.

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Early Stage San Francisco Michigan Portfolio 156

Hunter Walker

JUNE 26, 2023

When you spend most of your time in the Bay Area, you’re oblivious to how much of a global outlier the region really is in terms of the density of experience and availability of people who have “been there before”. That exposure gave me insight into the significant knowledge gap that exists between Silicon Valley and the rest of the world.

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Silicon Valley Canada Founder Early Stage 114

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

CTO, Modcloth – San Francisco, CA (corrected from e-mail version) Remember that girl from back home? The company needs a serious technologist that can modernize their global fashion supply chain so it can empower a new generation of professional independent designers and artisans, and help the most talented individuals rise to the top.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

So I reached a point in my career as a CMO for global high tech companies where I wanted to make a change and start a company that would apply all the marketing lessons I had learned to helping small local businesses. I had seen enough of large global companies and envied the way they had established their presence and their brand.

Entrepreneur 117

Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review Atlanta 117

The Next Web

MAY 2, 2013

At last week’s The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam, Liam Boogar from TNW media partner Rude Baguette moderated a panel discussion on ‘Hyper Growth from Europe’ with a pair of Swedish entrepreneurs, SoundCloud co-founder Alex Ljung and Klarna co-founder Niklas Adalberth.

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Europe Video Sweden San Francisco 115

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 19, 2019

The New York Times’ John Herrman recently asked “ Is there anything the rest of the internet can learn from LinkedIn? ,” in relation to how people there are relatively civil there compared to purely social media platforms. Hunter Walk: Wait, I thought LinkedIn was a resume and recruiting site.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Social Media Marketing World. Attend the world’s largest social media marketing conference of the year! By attending, you’ll make connections with 80+ of the world’s top social media pros (plus 2000 of your peers) and you’ll discover amazing ideas that’ll transform your social media marketing.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Pitch Night in San Francisco. Mightyverse builds video-driven language tools for mobile devices, collecting words, phrases, and sentences translated from one language to another, creating a global language marketplace. Last week, I attended the Annual Women 2.0 Mobile Track — Pitch 2010 Finalist — Mightyverse.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

I heard word that a new project was starting in Tokyo to work for the board of directors of a very large and well known Japanese electronics company to work on their Internet strategy looking at media, devices and networks. He told me that he was leading the project globally and gave me the name of the lead Japanese partner.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

That’s because we’re now in the midst of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW); a week wholly dedicated to inspiring people to unleash their ideas and take the next step in the entrepreneurial journey. If you’re asking, “Why have a women’s day during Global Entrepreneurship Week?”,

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Pitch Night in San Francisco. Mightyverse builds video-driven language tools for mobile devices, collecting words, phrases, and sentences translated from one language to another, creating a global language marketplace. Last week, I attended the Annual Women 2.0 Mobile Track — Pitch 2010 Finalist — Mightyverse.

CTO Hire 40

CTO Hire Cofounder Fractional CTO San Francisco 40

YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2016

By opening its service to global users instead of focusing on the highly competitive U.S. Subscribe to their newsletters and blogs, follow them on social media, and set up Google Alerts to keep up with their outreach and updates. If the threats and weaknesses that you’ve identified can’t be converted, minimize or avoid them.

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San Francisco Social Media Analytics Audience 100

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 14, 2012

Roy says the site wasn’t actually ready for launch but it started getting media attention in Germany and has now hit Hacker News a couple times, so the team isn’t keeping it a secret anymore. San Francisco, CA. San Francisco, California. Upcoming Events. Disrupt SF 2012. Disrupt SF Hackathon 2012.

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Internet San Francisco Europe Germany 108

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2014

” Today Zendesk is a publicly traded company located in San Francisco with customers worldwide and a market cap around $1.65 Svane chronicles the ZenDesk story in his new book Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business.

San Francisco 63

San Francisco Startup Social Media Demand 63

Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

Stan Gloss co-founded BioTeam following his tenure in business development with AVAKI Corporation, a pioneer in global grid software solutions. They have to think outside of their own back yard, get really active and make trips out to San Francisco or to New York to build some very important relationships.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

First: They’re all based in California, and more specifically, in San Francisco, Mountain View, and Menlo Park, respectively. My contact at Facebook assured me that this story wasn’t the only one of its kind, and that it was more common than you’d think in other offices they had globally.

Social Media 185

Social Media B2B North America Media 185

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

Thanks to Tom La Vecchia, X Factor Media ! #2 Prior to starting my own public relations and marketing consultancy, I worked for one of the largest global advertising agencies as well as smaller boutique PR and advertising agencies. We find talking points that others may miss, and offer a unique social media angle for our clients.

Entrepreneur 48

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

The world has changed… Two months ago, if I told you that remote work would be the global norm by mid-April, you’d have thought I was hanging out with Elon Musk too much. What’s fascinating is that this global experiment in remote work has been a surprising success. Here is remote work in the time of COVID-19.

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Silicon Valley Distribution Engineer Technical Review 198

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Being a San Francisco-Menlo Park commuter, I spend an average of 90mn per day on the road. Global warming: a plague for humanity? Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Global Warning! Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. David Cowan.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Technology San Francisco 48

Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

Stan Gloss co-founded BioTeam following his tenure in business development with AVAKI Corporation, a pioneer in global grid software solutions. They have to think outside of their own back yard, get really active and make trips out to San Francisco or to New York to build some very important relationships.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Silicon Valley Entrepreneur San Francisco 120

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

In 2005, The Wall Street Journal tried to estimate the “world’s cash hoard” and arrived at a figure of $46 trillion (PDF), based on global insurance, pension and mutual funds holdings alone. million on Kickstarter is a perfect example of how venture capital is being complemented by new approaches propelled by social media.

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Venture Capital San Francisco Deal Flow Atlanta 127

ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

Then Taariq Lewis from San Francisco, California, presented Stanzr, a lightweight online events platform specifically focused on moving qualified leads generated through webinars towards a close. Creating that kind of systematic buzz is an excellent social media marketing strategy as well. Taariq is also a 1M/1M premium member.

San Francisco 125

San Francisco Entrepreneur Silicon Valley India 125

Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 4, 2009

The driving beliefs behind the Institute are that (1) great founders are often overlooked by the current entrepreneurial ecosystem, and that (2) innovative startups have a dramatic positive effect on the global economy. Helping smart people start new companies should, in fact, help the global economy.

Founder 28

Founder Warrant San Francisco Intellectual Property 28

The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

The.com isn’t going away, says Lou Hoffman, CEO of The Hoffman Agency , a global public relations firm based in San Francisco that specializes in corporate business strategies like these. To do that, he had to negotiate a bit; the domain.al is currently assigned to Albanian properties.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco New York City SEO Naming 150

pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

Most important: I needed the time I spent at TechCrunch to learn what was powerful about new media. It’s hard for someone who has only worked in old media to get it. Likewise, I needed to distill what elements of old media weren’t broken and should be worked back into the blogosphere. 25 comments. Gregor Kennedy.

Entrepreneur 45

Entrepreneur San Francisco Silicon Valley Technical Review 45