Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month.

China 220

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 220

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. Brandsforce is a plug & play social media marketing platform that generates conversations, engagements and measurable actions on social networks. How do we do this?

Israel 133

Israel Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

For entrepreneurs looking to start a business or for established businesses looking to pivot their business model , you can use AI to build as-a-service operations. Simply put, IoT is a combination of sensor and data analytics systems, helping businesses aggregate metrics to make more accurate decisions.

Technical Review 131

Technical Review Analytics Forecast Artificial Inteligence 131

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2014

Here are my favorites: Social and business networking sites. Just for starters, Wikipedia now lists about 200 sites by name (once over 300), which they claim is just some of the more notable social networking sites. These also have the potential of satisfying a higher purpose (socially conscious), as well as making money.

Entrepreneur 276

Entrepreneur Aggregator Engineer Social Network 276

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Entrepreneur Ryan Hoover transformed an email list experiment into a venture-funded startup community with tens of thousands of active members. It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method.

Lean 60

Lean United States Fractional CTO Startup 60

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Ximdesk – Collaboration and social networking platform for enterprise. GroupSwim – Social collaboration and community tools to bring your employees, customers, and partners together. Xing XING – A global networking and contact management site for business professionals.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust.

Liquidity Event 224

Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur Accredited Investor 224

Gust

JULY 27, 2014

Social and business networking sites. Just for starters, Wikipedia now lists about 200 sites by name (once over 300), which they claim is just some of the more notable social networking sites. These also have the potential of satisfying a higher purpose (socially conscious), as well as making money.

Entrepreneur 182

Entrepreneur Aggregator Engineer Social Network 182

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We love a good entrepreneurial success story – entrepreneur as protagonist overcomes obstacles and builds a thriving, successful company (and become wealthy while doing so). I would advise any entrepreneur or investor considering content to think twice, as Howard Lindzon from Wallstrip warned us. It’s free.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. Keep in mind Yipit is an indirect competitor in the daily deals space (essentially a meta aggregator of deals sites), but the analysis is sound IMO.

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2013

Here are my favorites: Social and business networking sites. Just for starters, Wikipedia now lists about 200 sites by name (once over 300), which they claim is just some of the more notable social networking sites. These also have the potential of satisfying a higher purpose (socially conscious), as well as making money.

Startup 248

Startup Aggregator Engineer Social Network 248

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe that many social networks confused this idea. For starters – the team is exactly what I look for when I’m looking to fund entrepreneurs. Social networks continue to drive conversion of marketers. I know of at least one very clever entrepreneur in New York looking at this space.

Advertising 284

Advertising Las Vegas Affiliate RSS 284

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

2) Using advanced web and mobile data networks to track goods, aggregate usage, customer and product information, and strengthen customer intelligence. 4) Having offers, news, and recommendations transmitted primarily through the power of Word of Mouth, augmented by social networking services. 2) Use trials.

Social Network 178

Social Network Networking Aggregator Green 178

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Rob Go

JUNE 7, 2012

But a lot of entrepreneurs and investors were hoping for a really strong showing to drive more liquidity in the market and continue the surge in hype around internet companies (both start-ups and later stage companies). It’s not horribly dramatic by any means – Facebook is clearly an important company (even if it’s not worth $90B+).

Technical Review 61

Technical Review SMS Internet B2C 61

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2010

We have tons of entrepreneurs but our technology community has historically been splintered across town and across industries. In aggregate we have a ton of great developers but we need a better feeding system into our startups. I agreed to give up my evening at home because this is such an important topic to me.

Baltimore 222

Baltimore DC Social Network Washington 222

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2010

For as long as I can remember, computer users have been complaining about the array of names and passwords required to get work done – a different unique user identification name and password are required to start the computer, email, social networks, banking, read online news, connect to the office, or check your phone bill.

Startup 199

Startup Non-Compete Aggregator Security 199

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust. Marty Zwilling.

Accredited Investor 219

Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Stock 219

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Reuters TV Interview by Rhonda Schaffler Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm.

Portfolio 228

Portfolio Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC 228

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this. When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.”

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IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2012

has unveiled its annual lists of the fastest-growing companies in the United States, highlighting the most dynamic and innovative independent entrepreneurs in the country. 5000 list in aggregate generated some US$299 billion in revenue for the year 2011, creating some 389,000 jobs for the economy. Business media company Inc.

United States 159

United States Aggregator Social Network Revenue 159

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2018

But to use hashtags effectively, you must do more than just plug them into your tweets on Twitter or posts on Instagram, Facebook or another social network. When a person adds a hashtag to their post, that hashtag is indexed by social networks and the content becomes more easily searchable and discoverable by others.

Small Business 191

Small Business Marketing Social Media Social Network 191

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2011

Here are my favorites: Social and business networking sites. Just for starters, Wikipedia now lists about 200 sites by name (once over 300), which they claim is just some of the more notable social networking sites. If you must do one of these, skip the “me too” and focus on a niche, if you can find an unoccupied one.

Startup 226

Startup Aggregator Social Network Web 226

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 3) Originate investments.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

Software Review 55

Software Review Marketing Startup PPC 55

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Last week, the House of Representatives passed the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act (H.R. Since small businesses are responsible for the vast majority of new jobs, legislators believe that these new rules will make it easier for entrepreneurs to raise capital and ramp up hiring. Crowdfunding - Good Idea or Really, Really Stupid Idea?

SEC 54

SEC San Jose Angel Investor Accredited Investor 54

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2010

Here are my favorites: Social and business networking sites. Just for starters, Wikipedia lists about 300 sites by name, which they claim is just some of the more notable social networking sites. CEOWorld Magazine prioritizes about 40 of the most famous business networking sites. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 175

Startup Aggregator Social Network Engineer 175

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust. Marty Zwilling.

Accredited Investor 120

Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust.

Liquidity Event 184

Liquidity Event SEC Accredited Investor Angel Investor 184

The Next Web

JUNE 17, 2012

There’s Muchbeta , a nicely named Web applications company that is building a nifty news aggregation app for the iPad called Niiiws. There’s Seedrs , a crowdfunding platform for startups that runs its operations from Lisbon.

Portugal 167

Portugal San Francisco Aggregator Startup 167

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

This is even more true for professionals today and no group more so than entrepreneurs. Therefore, for those of you planning to be serial entrepreneurs your personal brand is an invaluable asset. Representation is a large part of any social network, but some more than others.". Aggregate and curate to reinforce.

Elevator Pitch 144

Elevator Pitch Management Aggregator Curation 144

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

Each week we discuss the latest news, resources, and advice for entrepreneurs and small business owners. If you’re not currently an entrepreneur, but you’re thinking about it, what does it take to make you think about those things that you love in a way that is potentially entrepreneurial? Hosted by Jonathan Michael and Peter Thorsson.

Small Business 60

Small Business Email Startup Aggregator 60

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2013

Initially, angel groups were basically setup for two reasons--to connect angels to each other and to pool money for entrepreneurs. Secondly, it was easier for the entrepreneurs to pitch in front of a roomful of a lot of money than one at a time. For entrepreneurs, it's quite the same. 2) A Platform for Visibility. Two a week!

Angel Groups 134

Angel Groups Angel Investor Aggregator New York 134

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

In a previous post , I asked readers for suggested topics that the US government needs to know about startups and entrepreneurs, and got some really interesting responses. Unfortunately, this program applies to the investor who holds the capital, and not the entrepreneur who discovers how to put that capital to use.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco Founder DC Washington 150

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. Touched by an Angel.

Pre-Money Valuation 28

Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Some of these businesses are still with us, including Google and the social media behemoth Facebook. Some of the entrepreneurs below stayed in school while developing and operating their business, while others dropped out in order to give their venture their full attention. Time Magazine.

Intellectual Property 127

Intellectual Property New York City Pennsylvania Cofounder 127