thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. But even more exciting is when I see inflection points of adoption — which is why 2011 was a particularly exhilirating year for me.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

You can minimize risk by performing due diligence when selecting a company or individual to work with, clearly defining the project scope, expectations and milestones in any development contracts, and allocating enough money to hire competent developers. 5 Google's Secret Social Initiative Delayed Until.

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David Teten

AUGUST 29, 2012

a pitch event featuring ten early stage tech startups, Tuesday night , September 4 at Microsoft’s midtown office at 1290 Avenue of the Americas. Developers worldwide, and their work, are nowhere to be found or discovered. In Geeklist we provide the global developer community a place to get credit where credit is due.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Thankfully, there are a number of great tools for tracking your web metrics (both free and paid) that can help you get a better understanding of what your users are doing on your site and even how your competitors are faring in their own online efforts. What is web analytics? MOZ [$99/month and up]. SEMrush [$69.95/month month and up].

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link]. Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link]. Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies (by @fredwilson) – [link]. End of an Era: The Golden Age of Tech Blogging is Over – [link]. Small Businesses and Startups: Worst.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! There’s also a searchable service section with advice on logo design, website development and a service request board if you prefer that providers come to you.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. Visit [link] / for more information.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! FarmVille" Lands on the iPad View More » Tech Microsoft: Windows 8 Is 2 Years Away Sony Retires the Cassette Walkman Aft. Visit [link] / for more information.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! They are also limiting in a fast-moving industry like tech, where what you do now might not be what you’ll be doing in a few years. “A The downside? Take AT&T. And Good luck!

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! FarmVille" Lands on the iPad View More » Tech Microsoft: Windows 8 Is 2 Years Away Sony Retires the Cassette Walkman Aft. Here' the article: [link] Seriously, thanks.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! FarmVille" Lands on the iPad View More » Tech Microsoft: Windows 8 Is 2 Years Away Sony Retires the Cassette Walkman Aft. Here' the article: [link] Seriously, thanks.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

There are metrics to review. Social networks come and go, but people always have an inbox—and they want to be connected with people who bring them value. If you have an IT person or web developer, you can ask them to handle it. Building a list and setting up email templates and campaigns takes time.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So it all begs the question, if you’re not from a tech background do you even have a shot at starting a web startup? Non-Technology Driven Startups The first question to ask is, is your startup idea technology driven? Are you inventing new technical solutions to a problem?

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Neither Pablo or I have a technical background and therefore needed someone to build our product. We both tapped into our respective networks, asking (almost pleading with) people to join our team and vision. We are implementing the innovative web 2.0 We are implementing the innovative web 2.0

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

I have a personal diligence rule that when speaking to people at large companies, the facts that they tell you are very useful but their opinions about startup ideas no more valuable than any other smart person’s opinions). Darnell – If a back-end tech guy can copy it, you probably need to build the business idea more.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Dev & Design Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Still, this trend’s days may be numbered, if only due to overuse and association-bordering-on-marriage with the Apple/iPhone brand. See also: Wet floor effect.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

As a rule, Kayserian says that Kayweb will take no more than 40% of a company in exchange for development work. The shortage of startup technical talent, especially in New York City, has been well-documented. Have an account? In exchange for $150,000 to $300,000 of work, each startup has given Kayweb 14% to 40% equity.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Dev & Design Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Still, this trend’s days may be numbered, if only due to overuse and association-bordering-on-marriage with the Apple/iPhone brand. See also: Wet floor effect.

Web 111

Web Design Social Media Software Review 111

mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

Jobs Events Try Our New Social News App Welcome to Mashable! It would take an article in itself to fully compare the benefits of these (and other popular ecommerce site providers), but suffice it to say they both offer options for businesses that do not wish to manage the technical aspects of their ecommerce storefront. Top Stories.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Dev & Design Mashable on Facebook Join Us! If you’ve found an A/B testing resource that’s great for small companies, startups or solo developers, please share it with us and other readers in the comments!

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

Not only do you have to continue to support the desktop web, but now each company must develop and test for iOS and multiple flavors of Android. Plus the design elements of the app world are different, implying that your desktop web developers may not be good at mobile app design. HTML5 is a head-fake.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. This is particularly true in the fast-paced high-tech and software world, where only a small percentage of startups mature. Latest Social Media News.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project?

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

9 Tech Millionaires Under Age 30 [INFOGRAPHIC]. How to Plan Your Social Integration Strategy. Brian Sullivan is vice president of client services at Gigya , where he advises clients on implementing social technology. No longer does a business wonder whether its site should contain social components and functionality.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

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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. Latest Social Media News. Tech & Gadgets Highlights. Web Video Roundup. The Social Good Brief. Flag this comment.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Most of the scripts that run the spreadsheets are “public,” meaning you can access them from the Tools + Script Gallery menu (this also means they were reviewed and approved by Google Spreadsheets team). As an added bonus if the archive is published the results can be visualised in a separate tool I’ve developed.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

An Amazing Round Up of Illustrations in Website Designs – [link]. Useful Glossaries For Web Designers and Developers – [link]. The State of Web Development 2010 – [link]. Consumer Reports: Half of Social Network Users are “Oversharing&# – [link]. Who Uses Google AdWords?

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

But Socially sharing through the multitude of networks is another way of getting to the customers to sign up for your launch. Another way is get behind the power blogs such as mashable, techcrunch and get them to write a review or do an interview for your solution. We have a beta page for a new social networking site.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Social media Mobile 2.0 Ximdesk – Collaboration and social networking platform for enterprise. GroupSwim – Social collaboration and community tools to bring your employees, customers, and partners together.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

This requires a visual web-editor (assuming you’re building a web-application). Personally I use Visual Web-Developer from Microsoft - it’s free and powerful. However, it is also very complicated to use, as it’s a full web-development environment. This part of work is paid separately.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! The Small Business Tips Series is supported by Bantam Live , a web-based collaboration workspace with “Social CRM&# for small business teams. and Path Intelligence.

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

Jobs Events Try Our New Social News App Welcome to Mashable! Google just wants to make the web a better place, and it does that by rewarding people who do things right. In some cases, they’ll even tell you when they’ve run into spam on your website. Latest Social Media News. Tech & Gadgets Highlights.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. March 25, 2011 at 1:36 pm.

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

With more than 40 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific news site reporting breaking web news, providing analysis of trends, reviewing new Web sites and services, and offering social media resources and guides. Have an account?

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