Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

They leverage a blockchain-based mobile voting platform to let everyone’s voices be heard by making it easy to vote and nearly impossible to cheat. Votem is a complete end-to-end platform that takes your organization from registration through to results and review. What will be the most overhyped tech trend of 2020?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Reviewing financial & operational performance. By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices. Mentorship. As You Start to Mature.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 16, 2017

at the time and best highlighted in our end of 2015 review: SaaS 2.0, reinventing for the mobile first workforce will continue to remain robust. We also see older school SaaS companies being rebuilt with more flexible back-end technologies like microservices and reimagined with a more responsive and beautiful UI. Go niche?—?pick

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

It seems all technology is getting smaller and more efficient. billion, and by 2017, nearly half of global mobile users are likely to own a smartphone. billion, and by 2017, nearly half of global mobile users are likely to own a smartphone. The Mobile Gap & The Problems It Causes. billion smartphone users in 2012.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Experiments run by Dan Smullen , who manages technical SEO for Independent News & Media , demonstrate that Google isn’t biased against paywalled content: Before launching our paywall in February, we implemented a soft wall—a registration wall. was selected due to its ranking for evergreen queries, such as “things to do in Canada.”

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

The better universities, like GA Tech and UT Austin, are leading the charge in making entrepreneurship part of the curriculum at the undergraduate level. Mentors can provide everything from very technical support to basic business skills. You should decide whether the incubator route is best for you.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Popup ads, full-screen mobile ads, and auto-playing and prestitial video ads, for example, all have high disapproval ratings from users, pushing them towards using ad blockers. Mobile analysts say that fewer than one in three users are likely to grant permission, while 96% of U.S. User privacy.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

” Data Collective prides itself on its deeply technical core team, and the Big Data chops of its extended group of 35 equity partners, who, while Data Collective wouldn’t reveal specific names, all work or have worked at companies like Akmai, Zynga, LinkedIn, Apple, Facebook, Salesforce, Twitter, IBM, Citrix, Airbnb and VMware.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Additionally, our products often use new technologies and require people to change their behavior, such as using a camera to talk with their friends. The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone. I think AR is that big, it’s huge.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

As we were out looking for our Series B round, our company had gotten the attention of “name of big VC firm here” who wanted a play in enterprise software. During the due-diligence process, I sat down with one of the partners who pulled out a set of slides and asked me: ”Have you seen these?” Are These Your Slides?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 21, 2017

The reason they want to trade balance-sheet assets for strategy-execution, is that (healthy, growing) software companies are valued on their P&L, i.e. the size and growth of income and earnings. Facebook asserted publicly that their future was in mobile. Yet mobile advertising revenues were paltry. This had to be remedied.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

The average mobile viewing rates are 40 minutes per session.) In fact, JW Player was the technology that ran the earliest version of YouTube. It has continued to offer technical capabilities at the forefront of online video. The technical features of JW Player have attracted enterprise-level publishers (e.g. Overlay text.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

JetBlue has had to recreate established models and vertically integrate where the adjacent experiences for the customer and courageous brand to reinvent an entire ecosystem in this way. They are free-thinkers and I admire how they viewed the potential in technology and made it happen. Thanks to Ray Leon, Pet Insurance Review ! #20-

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2014

This is the second of a two-part series on mobile conversion. In the first part , we described the most common usability mistakes made in mobile commerce sites and apps, and how to fix them. In this part, well discuss the frontiers of mobile commerce: trends were seeing in user tests that may fundamentally change eCommerce.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In the beginning of any technology revolution the technology gets ahead of the institutions designed to measure and regulate safety and standards. Instrument Landing Systems – to help automate landings by giving the aircraft horizontal and vertical guidance. weather radars – to see and avoid storms.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 7, 2014

This is the first of a two-part series on mobile conversion and how to improve it. It’s based on thousands of user tests conducted by UserTesting , the leading usability testing service for mobile apps and websites. Why Doesn’t Mobile Convert? But according to Forrester , up to 30% of traffic to major websites comes from mobile.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Mobile Design’s Wake-Up Call Preparing Websites For The Unexpected. Mobile devices shake old habits in two ways. Now, not only do we have small-screen iPhones, Android phones, Kindles, iPads and other mobile devices, but we’re asking websites to adapt to whichever device comes knocking. Mobile Is Also A Content Problem.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

You may also want to consider measuring social media engagement and keeping an eye on your online reviews. UserTesting.com is one of the better-known services that help companies run usability tests, and there are also many companies that specialize in testing how usable software or a site is. Understanding your customers. Typography.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Some examples: AI will be the new mobile. Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. One of the interesting applications for this technology is assessing intellect in job interviews. What tasks are next?

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Learn Web Design, Coding & more! Ben Gremillion ● CSS3 , Learn to Code , Make a Website. CSS frameworks have gone responsive, squeezing content into a spectrum of desktop and mobile browsers with varying degrees of success. Lacking vertical alignment, all of the frameworks were technically half grids.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ). This way no one leaves the network due to excessive fees, yet you end up with a higher average rake over time due to the competitive dynamic. But it didn’t play out that way.

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Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2016

Once in an extremely rare while, a new technology will appear, for a short time, as if it has no competition. That happened with television, fax, cell phones, web streaming, and many other disruptive technologies. You’ll also see positioning maps set up with two axes, vertical and horizontal. Using online reviews.

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ConversionXL

JULY 27, 2015

million ticket sales per year due to inaccessible booking sites. AbilityNet say that ecommerce is losing out £50 billion a year in the UK spending power due to poor accessibility [PDF]. These are text to speech software packages , primarily used by blind people to navigate and interpret digital material. Mobile users.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Below is a recap of some of September’s Israeli tech headlines: Investment rounds. uTest has established itself as the world’s largest marketplace for software testing services, with over 25,000 testers in over 160 countries. SimpliVT , a new venture in stealth has raised $9.2

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. A month ago, half way through my angel funds raised from family members, I decided to review the progress I’ve made and figure out what still needs to happen to make this a viable business. You should sign up for our newsletter here. During this year they.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999 – [link]. Moms at tech start-ups say they can have it all – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 33 Creative Uses of Vertical Scrolling in Web Design – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. How to run a software business on 5 hrs a week. Build a technology company without a tech cofounder – [link]. Build a technology company without a tech cofounder (by @BeckyMcCray ) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. How to run a software business on 5 hrs a week. Build a technology company without a tech cofounder – [link]. Build a technology company without a tech cofounder (by @BeckyMcCray ) – [link].

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. It was so bad that I almost wrote my first Yelp review. Today, Aventis Systems, Inc. Thanks to Roni Eshel, goFlow ! #9)

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Erica Swallow is a technology and lifestyle writer. As a tech journalist, I’ve been pitched by hundreds of companies and have developed a taste for what works and what doesn’t. Then research which journalists at that publication cover the vertical in which your startup or its news would fall. Flag this comment.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. Everything, that is, but.NET.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

Not so long ago, we were all posting AI profile pictures on social media, but very quickly we’re now seeing an emergence of generative AI tools and LLM applications to assist almost every role in the organisation, across industries and verticals. This shift is particularly significant in the realm of Large Language Models (LLMs).

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

IN THIS EDITION Fintech products ease more Americans into the stock market In defense of the IPO, and how to improve it What’s inside your (mobile) bank? As the national dialogue on income equality and financial inclusion continues, I’m encouraged to see technology companies pave the way for the consumers that have often been excluded.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

As we are now in 2015, midway through the second decade of the new millennium, I thought I’d reflect on shifts I am seeing in culture, commerce and technology. That is a type of technology which could become a species threat before we realise what we’ve created. The first thought is pretty obvious. Bring it on.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

As we are now in 2015, midway through the second decade of the new millennium, I thought I’d reflect on shifts I am seeing in culture, commerce and technology. That is a type of technology which could become a species threat before we realise what we’ve created. The first thought is pretty obvious. Bring it on.

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