mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. Brenton Gieser , Be Social Change.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

Unfortunately, the web is ripe with sites that offer social implementations that miss the mark. And often, businesses suffer from a “set it and forget” mentality, in which a product manager will slap a Facebook Like button on his sites and declare the business’s website now social. Quite frankly, that is not enough.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Jobs Events Try Our New Social News App Welcome to Mashable! The product is the star of the show.” And maybe you heard of a tiny Linux-based mobile software designer Google bought in 2005, called Android Inc.? In November 2009 Google acquired mobile ad company AdMob for $750 million. Motorola Mobility.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The classic delineations of web products for business and consumer (“enterprise” direct selling, on premise vs cloud, etc) are only getting blurrier. But in the next 5 years the web and mobile app stores will increasingly be a force in selling and customer acquisition for busines software. Author howerl.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Jobs Events Try Our New Social News App Welcome to Mashable! It’s based largely on my personal experience naming several tech products as well as the themes I’ve noticed in great startup names. Latest Social Media News. Today in Mobile. The Social Good Brief. Mobile Lists. Productivity Lists.

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mashable.com

JUNE 30, 2012

David Schoenbach is vice president of product management at Exadel Inc. There he heads product definition, marketing, and sales of the Tiggzi , a platform for mobile development. It’s where social user-generated content sits, where forward-thinking creators place their tools. As businesses ask “What’s our mobile strategy?”

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Jobs Events Try Our New Social News App Welcome to Mashable! For the majority of the naming process, you’ll be iterating on two steps: creating a list of words that are related to your product or service, as well as creating permutations of these words to determine the final name. Latest Social Media News. Today in Mobile.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Clearly Define Your Business Model While this may sound like a trivial task, young startups often have an exciting and innovative product, but no real plan for monetizing it. With the help social networking tools it has became much easier for start ups to venture in the competitive market.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

I just reviewed the many companies who recently raised venture capital with an eye towards those that are offering products and services that could benefit other entrepreneurs and business owners. It enables merchants to sell their products anywhere by syndicating goods to multiple marketplaces. Ixtens ( [link] ) raised $4.6

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Mashable | The Social Media Guide Viral Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video About Mashable Company About Us Advertise Submit News Contact Us Announcements Resources Guidebooks Lists How To Trending Twitter List Directory Mashable Awards Subscriptions Partners W3 EDGE Rackspace Concentric Sky Dynect DNS Intridea Welcome to Mashable!

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

Lack of Any Market Validation It’s no exaggeration that most applicants have not found a single person willing to pay money for this product. One-Sided Competitive “Analysis&# Most competitive analysis charts look like the one at left, with your product winning every category. That means we were in your shoes!

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

Latest Social Media News. Today in Mobile. The Social Good Brief. How to Promote and Advertise Your Mobile App. 9 Digital Ways to Become a Social Good Hero in 2012. 10 Inspiring Social Networks for Writers. Mobile Lists. Productivity Lists. Social Media Lists. Social Media.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. For example, search for investors who are interested in mobile and also are willing to invest in Austin, Texas. Latest Social Media News. Today in Mobile. The Social Good Brief. Mobile Lists.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Buzz Is Great, But Substance Matters Most In the end, if a startup’s product sucks, it doesn’t matter if it has four users or 4 million when it launches. Start blogging, talk about the problems that you’re facing and how your product is the solution. Now to get the product out to people! Have an account?

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

In the early days of LinkedIn we jointly acquired an issued patent of the defunct SixDegrees.com which directly pertains to social networking as well as acquiring a nascent startup in part for its in-process patent filings. owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking.

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

Jobs Events Try Our New Social News App Welcome to Mashable! SEO, as relevant as MySpace and Google Buzz in the 2nd decade of the 21st Century mobile marketing era. social media = we were an advertising or public relations firm in 2010. Latest Social Media News. Today in Mobile. The Social Good Brief.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

This tool also includes basic social network analysis (building friend/follower information, twitter profiles etc]. Latest Social Media News. Today in Mobile. The Social Good Brief. LinkedIn Plans Mobile Ads This Year. Mobile Lists. Productivity Lists. Social Media Lists. Social Media.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

” Along these lines, a strong brand or product can overcome a potentially ill-conceived name. I thought is was a US product, but looking into it now it may only be an Australian product. Social Networks etc. Latest Social Media News. Today in Mobile. The Social Good Brief. SkareMedia.

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Birchbox didn’t discover the subscription product model when it launched in 2010, but it did make subscription service sexy. dog products ? This year, mobile phones, GPS and services like Craigslist combined to make real-time and location-based history. Latest Social Media News. Today in Mobile. Mobile Lists.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Not to mention, early-stage startups usually only employ a few people focused on product and development. If your startup is in that boat, it’s really not a matter of figuring out how to pitch your company — instead, you may want to consider improving your product before hitting the pavement. Screenshots of the product.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

“There’s simply no budget for [an office], as I bootstrap the company,&# says Paul Molluzzo, founder of Baby Goes Mobile , a web app that lets parents create a private baby book they can view and update from their mobile phones. Have an account? instead of having to travel home. Let us know in the comments below.

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Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

Today Cloze has started to talk more publicly about their funding and also is starting to open their product more broadly. Cloze is helping outbound professionals understand and utilize their professional network more comprehensively than ever before. I hope you’ll have an opportunity to check out Cloze’s product.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Automation allows you to spend less time on tedious tasks and will help boost productivity, especially within a small marketing team. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

It is a social network (like Facebook). Once you master step one… graduate to the next level, aim for the large possible global audience that is relevant for your products/services/mission. Take your existing help videos from your support site or trainings or the CD you bundle with your product, and put them on YouTube.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. It comes as no surprise as technology today enables companies to prove product-market fit much earlier in their lifecycles. Mari Holds a B.A. Now practically everyone is getting involved in Series A.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. DataSift is one of only two companies today that has the rights to re-syndicate the way it does. What does that mean? Not so on Twitter.

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Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

Those of us in the tech ecosystem think of and use Twitter in slightly different ways, but the mass market usage of the product is consumers seeking exposure to news, celebrities, and sports stars. There are lots of celebrities leveraging Twitter to sell their own products or establish e-commerce curation businesses.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I describe this in part as the “Social Network” effect… not just the movie itself but the example of Mark Zuckerberg and many other high profile young founders as role models ( who can forget this image? Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong.

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