The Next Web

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Adam Benzion is the founder of Entirely —a Seattle startup focused on social innovation, keen on connecting more people in more places to create special things together. . Network without really trying. Weekly events, meetups, and happy hours are business as usual in these communities and provide priceless networking opportunities.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2011

Then there's Seattle, of course. Vancouver has a number of local events and programs that connect and support members of the community, including Vancouver GreenTech Exchange, Vancouver Startup Weekend, Mobile Mondays, and BCIC-New Ventures Competition. And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Portland too.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

When I used to travel to Los Angeles and Seattle on business I would use a rental car. Increasing returns are particularly powerful when a network effect is present. According to Wikipedia , a network effect is present when “… the value of a product or service is dependent on the number of others using it.” Today I only Uber.

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San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

Gust

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Pre-revenue software, internet, mobile and telecom deals. Alliance of Angels (Seattle). First Angel Network (Halifax). Wilmington Investor Network (NC). For the first time, we asked for data from specific business sectors, as follows: All pre-revenue deals. Pre-revenue energy and clean tech. Organization.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 30, 2014

The Platform is a regular column by mobile editor Dan Rowinski. Ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence and pervasive networks are changing the way humans interact with everything. Then there are the companies which focus on the Internet’s ability to bring people together. Connecting People For Work And Play.

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Technology Boston Cloud Silicon Valley 60

Austin Startup

JANUARY 27, 2017

In Seattle, accessible buses and light rail lines allow people who use wheelchairs to travel seamlessly across the network, while Portland’s LIFT paratransit service offers an essential shared-ride public transportation service for riders who are less mobile. Taxis are also going along for the ride.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Enrique Ortiz, the founder of MobileMonday Austin and a panelist for InnoTech Austin’s Mobile Application Marketplace session. Q1: What caused you to want to get into working with mobile telephone platforms in 1998? A: Over the years, I realized the relationship between mobile and what I call people-centric computing.

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Programming Founder Silicon Valley Mobile 59

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) The second wave of companies were mainly concentrated in Silicon Valley, and coincided with the rise of platforms (Google, Facebook, etc.)

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www.thenameinspector.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Try online social networks. asking various people, and reading the information on the internet, it seems that the conventional wisdom seems to fall into three [.]. A not-as-obvious point is that you want to be able to have your company name as your domain name (URL, Internet address). Mobile App Names (1). &nbsp. [.]

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Naming Product Delaware Seattle 44

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

Here in Boston the same dynamic as Silicon Valley has been afoot… at least in the software/internet sphere, the majority of startups have migrated from the suburban loop of Rt 128 back into the urban core of Boston & Cambridge. So why are software & internet startups more urban today than 5-10 years ago?

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

The front page of the Internet. To have been responsible for funding and nuturing something that legitimately calls itself the “front page of the Internet”, the Y Combinator program has to have done something right. I flew out from Seattle, where I lived, to Boston to Paul’s lecture on the back of his essay,” Phil tells me.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Currently Obsessed Joe Heitzeberg – Entrepreneur | Tech Geek | MBA Home About Me Joe Heitzeberg is an internet entrepreneur who has started and sold two companies. He tries to write things that havent already been written 9000 times.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In consumer internet, that usually means one front-end user-facing developer, one back-end server-side developer, and ultimately a business person (details will come in a later post). Other cities like New York, Boston, Seattle, LA and Austin TX also have pretty strong startup communities. Short and sweet.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

But if your company is located someplace like Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston, or New York, you’re entering the race with a handicap. In the third quarter, the Seattle company expanded by another 143,000 square feet in San Francisco, space for more than 700 additional employees, according to brokerage data.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

These designers help small to mid-sized brands design/develop quality product by exposing them to big company best practices and a global network of factories, trim suppliers, fabric sources, etc. We are ready to go national with expansion deals already in place in Seattle and San Francisco. 10 – Unique Social Network.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Barrett said hes seen apps become smaller, simpler, and more streamlined - perhaps to be more mobile browser-friendly. Simplicity is key so that the design can either work on both web and mobile devices or at least be consistent with the simple design of the mobile version." An animated section of Vimeo.com.

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