Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. For the full year 2012, venture-backed initial public offerings raised $21.5 Make a personal connection, directly or indirectly.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Though it’s incredibly valuable to be an early adopter of 2012′s tech trends, it won’t hurt your company to be right on time with everyone else who is just discovering them now. I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs the following question: What tech trends are you watching closely in the second half of 2012?

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

According to the “ Small Business Marketing Forecast 2012 ” from Ad-ology, Social media for small business marketing has reached its tipping point. Just ten percent say they will not use social media in 2012, down from 24 percent for 2011 and 39 percent for 2010. small businesses.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

The Dunbar Number, From the Guru of Social Networks | Businessweek - [link]. Social Networking Eats Up 3+ Hours Per Day For The Average American User - [link]. Top 50 Photoshop Tutorials from 2012 | Speckyboy – [link]. The Absolute Best Fonts of 2012 | Creative Beacon – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2013

In 2012 | TechCrunch – [link]. 12 big brands & celebrities that crowdsourced in 2012 | The Next Web – [link]. 133 of the Best Photoshop Tutorials Created in 2012 – [link]. 40 Well Designed Free Social Networking Icons – [link]. Best Book Covers Of 2012 For Inspiration – [link].

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

A quick look at the really nice sites developed in just a few months by companies like CircleUp, FundersClub, Bolstr, Seedrs, et al will show you that the base technical challenge of creating a marketplace/social network is not particularly difficult.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

5 Essential Spreadsheets for Social Media Analytics. February 9, 2012 by Ann Smarty. Ann blogs on search and social media tools. February 9, 2012 14:28:44. February 9, 2012 14:46:14. February 9, 2012 15:20:40. February 9, 2012 14:56:25. February 9, 2012 15:20:12. February 9, 2012 15:00:23.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Instead, buyers are checking out product and service information in their own way, often through the Internet, their social network, or just plain word-of-mouth or customer reviews. It’s a myth that social networks and their technologies are creating new approaches to marketing. One is known as ‘Mr.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Got around to seeing The Social Network this past weekend. I did a little searching around the web to try and find a truth vs. fiction comparison, but the closest I found was "The 10 Most Glaring Lies In The Social Network" on the Business Insider. ► 2012. (1).

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

World Featured in US & World Videos Featured: Facebook CES 2012 Awards. How to Plan Your Social Integration Strategy. January 13, 2012 by Brian Sullivan. My company’s CEO, Patrick Salyer, explains why multiple online personas make it imperative that companies offer social logins beyond Facebook Connect.).

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

July 18, 2012 by Chris Taylor. July 18, 2012 10:15:01. July 18, 2012 10:20:12. July 18, 2012 10:26:22. July 18, 2012 10:36:46. July 18, 2012 10:52:20. July 18, 2012 11:14:22. I created {s}hareCLOUD — Private social networks for businesses– with Google in mind. Like Tweet.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2014

Social networking is so last year. Asif Khan founded Caremerge in 2012 and recently received multi-million dollars in funding, Asif Khan has over 20 years of experience in technology. Good examples include: Ycombinator, Techstars, Startup health and Rock health. Solve a Real World Problem.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s 2012 report The Millennial Generation Research Review cites 80 percent of millennials sleep with their phone next to the bed. Marc Apple, owner and chief strategist at Forward Push Media , said that no one is on social networks 24/7, but across generations most people check email every day. “In

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mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

World Featured in US & World Videos Featured: Facebook CES 2012 Awards. January 16, 2012 by Nellie Akalp. January 16, 2012 14:04:54. January 16, 2012 14:10:08. January 16, 2012 14:24:44. January 16, 2012 16:40:38. January 16, 2012 20:26:07. January 17, 2012 06:37:33. January 16, 2012 14:27:11.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

2011 was a splendid year for mobile commerce in Singapore , and 2012 promises to be an even better year as more and more Singaporeans turn to their mobile devices to shop on-the-go. Mobile Commerce On The Rise.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

In fact, 54% of users said they may actually leave a website and go to another rather than complete an individual registration form, according to a 2012 survey conducted by Blue Research. The same goes for businesses operating primarily in countries where social networks are blocked, such as China or Cuba.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Social Commerce. More than 2 billion people use social networks(8), such as Facebook and LinkedIn. Their popularity has prompted some social networking “stars” – including bloggers and YouTube favorites – to cash in by accepting advertising on their channels or selling their own products online(9).

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2012

500 list is payment processor Unified Payments, which saw a whopping three-year growth rate of 23,646 percent, with other prominent brands on the list including social networking site Facebook, Yelp, yogurt maker Chobani, Giftcards.com, KIND and convenience retailer Kum & Go. “To rank among the 2012 Inc. ’s.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

October 4, 2012 by Cezary Pietrzak. You’ve probably already used this trick when a username is taken on one of the big social networking sites. October 4, 2012 12:16:07. October 4, 2012 15:00:22. October 4, 2012 14:29:24. October 4, 2012 14:51:35. October 4, 2012 15:29:36. Social Media Lists.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

October 3, 2012 by Cezary Pietrzak. October 3, 2012 14:52:37. A tech and social media publishing site. October 3, 2012 15:28:03. October 3, 2012 20:30:29. October 4, 2012 04:53:23. October 5, 2012 13:46:19. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Like Tweet. Like Tweet.

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mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

July 10, 2012 by Curt Finch. it was what the networks were selling before ‘behavioral’ got hot in 2006. July 10, 2012 09:40:07. July 10, 2012 10:50:39. July 10, 2012 11:12:07. July 10, 2012 11:21:19. July 10, 2012 11:36:32. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 7, 2012

Nic Brisbourne (@brisbourne) June 6, 2012. Last week I tweeted a link to this great list of annoying ways that people’s social networks get abused. I’ve embedded one example below. If you need a website/design made, Freelancify.com helps you find a person to do it. Help a friend & Please RT. —

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2012

Leading digital marketers from around the Asia Pacific and beyond gathered yesterday at ad:tech Singapore 2012 to share and discuss the continuing growth of the role of technology and digital media in marketing and advertising. Growing the Philippines’ Digital Marketing Business (With A Snapshot on Indonesia).

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Now that end users spend as much of their personal time with software (in the form of social networks, tablet/smartphone apps, streaming media, etc) as they do with business software they’ve become much more discriminating buyers. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? What’s Your Favorite Future?

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

World Featured in US & World Videos Featured: Facebook CES 2012 Awards. Facebook, Twitter Engineers Tweak Google’s Social Search [VIDEO]. January 21, 2012 by Nellie Akalp. The Most-Shared 2012 Super Bowl Ad Teasers So Far [VIDEOS]. The only network really sharing this is Linkedin. January 21, 2012 17:53:09.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. Alignable is a network exclusively for business owners , conceptualized by Eric Groves and Venkat Krishnamurthy. Next-Gen Networking.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Looking Ahead: The Rest of 2011 and 2012 Outlook. As small business owners look to the future months and 2012, 50-percent say it will be “steady as she goes – continuing much as we are now” for the holiday season. . · 77-percent cited “being their own boss” as the key benefit to being a small business owner.

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

July 3, 2012 by Erin Everhart. Penguin : Released April 2012, this algorithm put tighter guidelines on website optimization and adjusted a number of web spam factors, including keyword stuffing, cloaking, unnatural links and content spinning. social media = we were an advertising or public relations firm in 2010. Like Tweet.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 18, 2012

The idea, termed “an implicit social network,” intrigued many innovators and media types, including ReadWriteWeb founder Richard MacManus, who once predicted that Color would be the next Twitter. Alexia Tsotsis (@alexia) October 17, 2012. Arrogance Doesn't Buy You Favors.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 30, 2014

This succinct example is hard to argue with: “If you wanted to study access to information, for example, you would simply measure how much time it takes to locate information before and after implementation of your enterprise social network.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Color Labs, the photo-and-video-sharing social network that received much criticism over its pre-launch $41 million funding round, is about to be acquired by Apple. Color said that it had six patents pending at the time of its funding, including its ‘elastic’ social.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2014

When Bebo, the UK social network went down in 2012, users flocked to Twitter to complain. There’s nothing like an honest apology from the CEO to defuse a downtime aftermath. But how do you make millions of users read it? A banner ad.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

While the latter is not yet legal in the United States, the JOBS Act, which was signed into law in April 2012, mandates that the SEC makes it legal by January 1st of 2013. They market it on their social networks, to their friends and family, and through press outreach.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 18, 2012

The idea, termed “an implicit social network,” intrigued many innovators and media types, including ReadWriteWeb founder Richard MacManus, who once predicted that Color would be the next Twitter. Alexia Tsotsis (@alexia) October 17, 2012. Arrogance Doesn't Buy You Favors.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 1, 2012

In its quarterly filing yesterday Facebook disclosed that it spent $24m on ‘talent focused acquisitions’ in the first half of 2012. Three of the four are mobile companies (which rises to five of the six acquisitions Facebook made in total in H1 2012 if you include the bigger deals Instagram and Face.com ).

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

On November 28, 2012. November 29, 2012. November 29, 2012. November 29, 2012. November 29, 2012. HealthTab acquires Avvo Health to double its doctor network. November 29, 2012. PandoDigest. Share on Twitter. Share on Facebook. Share on LinkedIn. The Series A crunch is hitting now. By Sarah Lacy.

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