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 328

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 328

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Nor is the knowledge loss limited to technical knowledge: It is not simply losing someone’s knowledge if they retire or leave the organization, it is also losing their social network, if you will, in terms of who they seek out for answers to questions in their domain. Internal social networks. The decision-making process.

Retention 128

Retention Technical Review Social Network Wiki 128

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Social Media based Discovery Traffic Breaks Out. The aggregation of such high-intent traffic is what makes Google a formidable force on the Internet. However, the emergence of social media in the past few years has created a new web where people are the nodes, connected through the social graph. Are you ready? *A

Internet 114

Internet Media Social Media Advertising 114

The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

One of The Social Network’s most memorable lines is when actor Justin Timberlake utters the words, “A million dollars isn’t cool. And yet when they started startups, they decided to build recipe sites, or aggregators for local events.” Groupthink. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.”

Startup 130

Startup SCRUM Cofounder Aggregator 130

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

They're going strong , and constantly adapting their platform to users' changing needs for information and social media aggregation. Plyce : Feature-rich location-based social network. Take Netvibes , the pioneer in the personalized dashboard space, which has been written about a number of times here on ReadWriteWeb.

France 163

France Technical Review Incubator Early Stage 163

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Brandsforce is a plug & play social media marketing platform that generates conversations, engagements and measurable actions on social networks. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators. Brandsforce - Company Website. How do we do this? inneractive - Company Website.

Israel 133

Israel Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

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

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Declaring success based on measuring Likes in aggregate is like declaring success after getting a lot of Visits to your site. But not, ever, in aggregate.]. For your Facebook brand page at an aggregate level, measure Conversation, Amplification and Applause. Aggregate impact on your Facebook brand page? Too strong?

Metrics 165

Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2018

You can the right candidates from places like job aggregators a place where recruiters post jobs and professional networks like LinkedIn. It is a social networking platform for professionals. Help in finding the right candidate for the job. Applicant Tracking System (ATS). It shows the users interests and experience.

Management 100

Management Software Review Software Hiring 100

Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

Simply put, IoT is a combination of sensor and data analytics systems, helping businesses aggregate metrics to make more accurate decisions. For example, in China, a taxi company discovered a new business area by using AI to monitor what people were saying on social networks.

Technical Review 131

Technical Review Analytics Forecast Artificial Inteligence 131

Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Sometimes, by using one of the multitude of price aggregators, you can have an understanding of where your pricing is at an item level. Social cues to the rescue. The last couple of months have not been great for social networks. A minority might believe that the whole social media thing is going to die.

Conversion 125

Conversion eCommerce Artificial Inteligence Aggregator 125

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 Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. Prerna began her startup journey after leaving a job as a management consultant, and launched Yaari, a youth-oriented social network in India. She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method.

Lean 60

Lean United States Fractional CTO Startup 60

YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2012

SOCIALKIT ( www.socialkit.me ) is a social influence visualization tool that aggregates your Facebook data and presents it in a very fun yet informative, infographic manner.

Singapore 207

Singapore Aggregator Social Network Business Plan 207

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

Measure retention rate over time in aggregate – or for optimal health, segment retention rate – and measure it for the various objectives you have set for your email marketing program. Four simple metrics that help you understand how effective you are in the acquisition stage of your email marketing.

Metrics 138

Metrics Campaign Email Marketing 138

VC Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2011

It hopes to be more than a user generated content site, by aggregating movies, games, recreational and educational activities from sources that were deemed safe for kids, operating on a Freemium model – offering free access to basic content and charging for premium media access.

Social Network 99

Social Network Networking Web Audio 99

ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2020

Working with this dataset can be valuable in terms of understanding the underlying structure of Google Analytics data and experimenting with a number of advanced statistical and data mining techniques that can’t be applied when the data is in aggregate form (which is the norm with standard Google Analytics.).

Analytics 94

Analytics Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review 94

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. If you must do one of these, skip the “me too” and focus on a niche, if you can find an unoccupied one.

Entrepreneur 276

Entrepreneur Aggregator Engineer Social Network 276

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Social networks continue to drive conversion of marketers. But more broadly I believe that you’ll see a lot more tools for helping marketers more effectively run, monitor and manage social media campaigns. Not necessarily in the shopping mindset.

Advertising 284

Advertising Las Vegas Affiliate RSS 284

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. If you must do one of these, skip the “me too” and focus on a niche, if you can find an unoccupied one.

Startup 248

Startup Aggregator Engineer Social Network 248

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

YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2011

View an aggregation of customer reviews and online mentions. Respond, re-tweet, take actions or create a new conversation on major social sites. And here’s yet another: American Express OPEN launches YourBuzz , a free tool to help small businesses manage their online presence. View existing business listings.

Small Business 162

Small Business Management Aggregator Social Network 162

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2010

In aggregate we have a ton of great developers but we need a better feeding system into our startups. Of course nobody really knows what the future of social networking is and anybody who claimed to know would be a shyster (yes, a little bit too close to my last name for comfort.).

Baltimore 222

Baltimore DC Social Network Washington 222

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community. If it’s done right, feedback and postmortems are regular activities and reviews are just the official aggregation of such feedback.?. Pivot to the One Thing at the intersection of those 3 truths.?? Fab Culture.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

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

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

At a high level, user experience is the aggregate and subjective experience of using a product such as a website or app. You want it to lead to something – be it sticking around on your social networking site, buying jeans on your ecommerce site, or getting the highest value out of your SaaS tool. Does it feel seamless and fun?

Conversion 103

Conversion Metrics Architecture Design 103

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

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. The growth of Facebook and social gaming led by Zynga – Another obvious trend is Facebook. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.” Seems an obvious fit.

IPO 255

IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

Rob Go

JUNE 7, 2012

Our recent investment in Farmeron is leveraging the rising availability of data being produced in the farming and agricultural sector, and other companies are similarly aggregating and making accessible oceanographic data. But this is happening in massive areas that we never think about. They are far more foundational to what is to come.

Technical Review 61

Technical Review SMS Internet B2C 61

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. Topping the Inc. The companies in the Inc. ’s.

United States 159

United States Aggregator Social Network Revenue 159

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

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The company, which originally focused on the development of VoIP solutions for mobile telephones, develops software to aggregate social network input into a single cellular application without taxing the phone’s battery. Wireless communications chip developer Qualcomm Inc. is acquiring iSkoot Technologies Inc.,

Israel 80

Israel Bandwidth Framework Forecast 80

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. 9) Time, market, and exit investment.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

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

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

This begs the question: how much time do users spend in Snapchat today compared to other social networks, and how will that number change over time? Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat.

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Social Network Forecast 48

YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2012

Starcount , he explains as he demonstrates the site via his laptop projected on a large TV screen, is a social media measurement engine that aggregates and measures social media popularity on a global and local scale across any genre.

Social Media 187

Social Media Media Singapore Aggregator 187

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. Start in a business domain you know well. Remember that 9 out of 10 startups fail in every realm.

Liquidity Event 224

Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur Accredited Investor 224

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Start in a business domain you know well. Remember that 9 out of 10 startups fail in every realm.

Portfolio 228

Portfolio Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC 228