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

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

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

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

By aggregating user-generated speed and location data, Blink will provide instantaneously generated traffic-enabled maps, optimal routing, estimated time-to-arrival and predictive itinerary services to personal and corporate users. BlinkTraffic will empower mobile users in developing markets (Jakarta, Sao Paolo, Delhi, etc.)

Lean 307

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 307

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

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

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Swipely is a social network orientated around users credit card transaction data. Sellers can lower transaction fees by aggregating purchases into fewer transactions, while also providing buyers with an attractive alternative payment method. Swipely – Blippy competitor founded by TellMe founder, Angus Davis, in Fall 2009.

Stealth 285

Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? Everybody thinks if I build this cool app people will come and use it. Sure, but will they still be using it in a year? In 6 months? In 3 months? The biggest limitation we tech consumers have is our time.

Metrics 346

Metrics Startup Acquisition SEM 346

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

MAY 17, 2016

This is a strategy that has been successfully used by social networks, ecommerce stores and even enterprise businesses to drive customer engagement and build revenues. This public gratification provides users with sufficient incentive to contribute and thus help TripAdvisor meet its business need of aggregating traveler reviews.

eCommerce 100

eCommerce Social Network Aggregator Lead Generation 100

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

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

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 184

Liquidity Event SEC Accredited Investor Angel Investor 184

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

MAY 10, 2015

Grounded in hardcore data-driven research (you can check out the MIT team’s academic articles here ), it distils social, analytical, computational and managerial sciences into a discipline which helps us understand how collective intelligence and social influence works. Marrying Big Data With Social Networks.

Social Network 100

Social Network Stock Aggregator Networking 100

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

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

Entrepreneur 182

Entrepreneur Aggregator Engineer Social Network 182

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 Aggregator 222

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 1, 2012

between them, making the aggregate exit value of these acqui-hires 4.2x, which tells us that if the investors on average had a 24% stake they would have broken even on these deals. Lightbox – an Android app which syncs the photos on your phone with your social networks and provides cloud hosting of your photos.

San Francisco 110

San Francisco Hiring Liquidation Preference Aggregator 110

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

Austin Startup

AUGUST 14, 2012

Responding to strong customer interest, FeedMagnet announces the availability of Viddy as the latest social media source to its powerful aggregation and curation platform for brands and agencies. Continue reading →

Aggregator 75

Aggregator Curation Social Network Social Media 75

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

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

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

Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 19, 2022

A social wall is an interesting tool that permits you to bring social media to your event. Whether your event is virtual, hybrid or face-to-face, the social wall is compatible with all formats. When your participants use the filter, they will be captured and published on their social networks.

Social Media 52

Social Media Media Campaign Aggregator 52

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

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.

Accredited Investor 219

Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Stock 219

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