YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

These playlists can even be embedded into any website through a widget, enabling any site to share relevant material to enhance existing content. The company is currently seeking first-round venture capital and institutional funding. MentorMob is bootstrapped and has 12 employees.

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Illinois Aggregator Chicago Widget 165

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

Project based on your market size how many widgets you will sell in every channel. Project your cash burn rate to keep at least 18 months between venture capital or angel investments. Forecast sales-volume expectations. This should always be a “bottoms-up” commitment from your sales team, not your own optimistic guess.

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Forecast Entrepreneur Burn Rate Widget 120

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

A next generation biotech business would get priced at a higher valuation than yet another family diner or widget manufacturer. Juniors have achieved a full proof of concept around their business, with rapid user or revenue growth, approaching up to $1MM in revenues (Series A venture capital—raise $1MM to $5MM).

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Valuation Forecast Seed Stage .Net 167

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

There are a million things they can do in the world, but the spend most of their time looking for the next great technology company that sells a better widget, but doesn’t necessarily change their life in any meaningful way. I think it’s mostly because they never find passion again, or they look for it in the wrong places.

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Alaska Widget Colorado Angel Investor 166

Growthink Blog

MAY 14, 2013

Funding Try walking into a bank or a venture capital firm and telling them what a talented widget maker you are and that they should give you money to build your company. What do you think is most likely?

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Widget United States Operations Venture Capital 103

Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Most brilliant “Internet of Things” ideas are quicksand for capital unless you have the branding, vertical integration and customer lock-in that Apple achieved. 20 years ago, a majority of “Sand Hill” venture capital went into enterprise-focused startups. The iPod model will separate IoT platforms from fads.

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Vertical Widget Distribution China 60

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 18, 2010

Not only is my e-mail address on my blog, but I even have a live Plugoo widget that you can type into and send me a message on AIM. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology. First off, there’s me. I am front and center when it comes to being in close proximity to what I write.

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Widget Venture Capital Curation Audience 97

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

struck in the early days where newspapers would put a little “Tag this article” widget at the end of every story, and in return, they’d get a feed of the keywords used to take the articles, which helped them on search and ad targeting. MyBlogLog could “make any site social” just by pasting a widget. Very simple, very effective.

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Early Stage Developer Technical Review Widget 120

Venture Chronicles

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I moved through marketing and sales role, and then venture capital to general management but all along the way I missed the hands on aspect of product and connection of products to people. Lastly, you really have to check out the results of an extensive rebranding effort that affects the website , communities, and widgets!

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Azure Widget Cofounder Venture Capital 51

VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

PREPARING AN EFFECTIVE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY — OR “TEASER” TO LAND VENTURE CAPITAL FINANCING. An effective executive summary — also known as a “teaser” — is a crucial tool that helps entrepreneurs catch the eye of venture capitalists and other sophisticated investors. Rosen, Esq., Partner Fox Rothschild, LLP.

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Early Stage Widget Business Plan Venture Capital 85

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2011

We invested in AxialMarket to help make deal sourcing more efficient on the lower middle market side for acquisitions--but their focus is more on helping Summit and TA buy a growing retail chain in Tennessee than to be the next social sharing widget on HuffPo.

Oauth 104

Oauth Tennessee Widget Acquisition 104

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Veteran investor Timothy Draper says venture-capital firms are taking notice of Silicon Beach. There arent any Silicon Beach start-ups that have hit the really big time yet, such as San Francisco-based Instagram, where staffers became instant millionaires. But there will be," Citron says. Most popular right now: Sponsored Links.

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Los Angeles San Francisco Southern California Silicon Valley 87

Altgate

DECEMBER 27, 2008

WordPress is open source so they tend to play nice with other companies, particularly the widget makers. Install a social commenting widget like Disqus or Intense Debate. TypePad vs. WordPress, etc., but the short answer to this is that pros use WordPress. Use social commenting.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

I’m currently developing a widget product for e-retailers to make shopping social. Reply Vijay Thirumalai , on May 19, 2010 at 2:15 pm Said: Steve, I’m a little behind in discovering your site and philosophy. Great work. I have a question about the product/market fit and MVP.

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 278

Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 25, 2011

In addition to brand to customer interactions on Q&A communities and in some cases the ability to populate web assets with widgetized content, brands also have the ability to do something in Q&A communities that they cannot do in any other forum, which is the ability to support an entire product category through a Q&A community.

Community 51

Community Search Social Network Social Media 51

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 17, 2010

The pieces are there for lots of other application widgets, but they don’t offer it. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology. The architecture easily allows you to drop in a blog on any page or have multiple ones across the same site. You can also add in forms, guestbooks and file upload pages.

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API Cloud Venture Capital Widget 94

VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

That model didn’t prove itself and PicApp pivoted, by creating a widget that shows related images for publishers. The PicApp Widget in Action. In its inception, PicApp enabled bloggers and publishers to legally embed high quality images by pasting simple code, showing ads on the images. Congrats and good luck!

Media 102

Media Widget Angel Investor Acquisition 102

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 26, 2012

In venture capital, you say "no" a lot. I'm concerned that some of the newer folks in venture capital haven't been kicked in the stomach enough. I'm not sure if they're in venture because they truly want to help someone change the world or because venture is simply the best exclusive club to get into post grad school.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Widget Early Stage 140

VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Users who install Snaptu get a few basic ‘mini-apps’ by default (such as Facebook, RSS reader, Twitter, Picasa, weather, news, etc) and have the ability to install additional widgets.

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Sri Lanka Dominican Republic Saudi Arabia 94

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000. Procter & Gamble Launches Widget to C.

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Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

Cracking the Code

APRIL 13, 2007

Having widgets on the website that enables customers to call directly a sales person proved to work very well. Venture Capital. (3). Explore Venture Capital. And this human touch is necessary even if you have a free demo on available on the web. Favorite Podcasts. (1). internet. (6). McKinsey highlights. (1).

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Software Review Internet Software Technical Review 48

www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Venture capital mean board meetings, which is a huge sap on time and resources. Tell them your story, and why your site/widget/product/service matters to their audience. Venture capital mean board meetings, which is a huge sap on time and resources. Rent servers, dont buy them. Stick with angel investment.

Entrepreneur 69

Entrepreneur Venture Capital San Francisco New Zealand 69

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You’re also living in an anti-Microsoft fantasy land if you think that all things that need to be done can be done with widgets and APIs provided in.Net. For instance, dropping pre-built widgets into WebPages without any understanding of the underlieing technology (HTTP, HTML etc.). March 26, 2011 at 10:22 am.

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Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Wireframing, prototypes: buil-in widgets and shapes. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â?? Raising Venture Capital. Venture Hacks equity section. About VC Cafe. Seed Startups.

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