VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

C urrensee , a social network for Foreign Exchange (Forex) traders, announced a series B of $8 million led by North Bridge Venture Partners and new investor, Egan Managed Capital. Currensee was founded by developer Asaf Yigal , currently VP of products as well as Forex trader Avi Leventhal , who is now an advisor to the company.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

They then asked their network who needed help with interior design – and made the connection, processing payment themselves. Use copy-paste widgets from around the web like contact forms, Skype buttons, live chat, etc. They started by contacting interior designers and building a physical list of those interested in extra work.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Tag photos with your facebook or twitter friends- The Tagger app uses the face.com tagging widget to add a face tagging interface on top of any image in the page. The tagging widget uses faces.detect to automatically place tags on people's faces, and allows users to add names.

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The Startup Toolkit

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Intercom – tasteful chat and help widgets for your site, plus good automated email triggers. Drip – email courses and signup widgets for your site. Mailchimp – newsletters and decent signup widgets. AngelList – social network and funding platform for startups and angels. Team collaboration.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

So if you’re using our Facebook Messenger website chat widget (see the MobileMonkey website for an example of this) the conversations are instantaneously being routed from your website, to the user, via Facebook Messenger. Messaging has eclipsed social networks in popularity. You don’t want to simply sell 100% of the time.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Even though it’s actually a derivative metric and isn’t a social network, I’ve heard people ask each other their Klout scores over beers at bars. For businesses, you can show off those marketing metrics with social media widgets. Hi, I’m a thought leader with 12,000 followers.”

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Only 3% were online when I started AOL.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

There will also be a free networking reception at Campus on Monday, June 25th. Brandsforce is a plug & play social media marketing platform that generates conversations, engagements and measurable actions on social networks. UK Startups can receive an *almost free* ticket by registering on this page.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Entrepreneur Connect Entrepreneur Media, the parent company of Entrepreneur Magazine , hosts this online network of entrepreneurs. EFactor The authors of business networking book The N Factor venture up the alphabet a little bit to bring you the EFactor. LinkedIn’s LinkedIn giant network of professionals is another advantage.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The service offers tools such as a web-based mixing console, a sound effects library and the ability to broadcast live audio through a widget that can be embedded across websites, social networks and blogs.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

There are also tons of tools for creating your own microsites, Facebook apps, social networks, blogs and more. You can also get great recommendations from your existing network; just be sure to research portfolios, websites and references thoroughly before making a decision to work with a particular developer.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 18, 2016

For me, Twitter is still the #1 social network because it is (or can be) *truly social*. Or really, the fact that it isn’t the trendiest social network any longer. It’s still the best social network to chat about current events, with people you don’t know already.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Mobile 2.0 View More » Social Good Donate Your Status to Show Support fo. Procter & Gamble Launches Widget to C. Social Media Engagement Strategist at. Stop Cyberbullying and "Find Help" on. MTV Launches Interactive Visualizatio.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Ted Serbinski: Angel investor Ted Serbinski sold his startup MothersClick to Lifetime in 2008 and joined the cable network as CTO of the ParentsClick Network. Roberts talks of social networks as mediums that may very well help your product or name attract VC attention.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Personal Network: Ask your friends and colleagues for suggestions. Send them a note about what you are looking for and ask them to pass it around to their network. This extends to your online social networks too – don’t be afraid to Tweet out what you are looking for. Craigslist is a great place to start.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

4G/ LTE (Long Term Evolution) -the fourth generation of networks, enabling faster downloading in 4G phones (100 megabit per second compared to today’s 21 megabit/sec in 3G phones). Allot Service Gateway solutions for mobile broadband are compliant with 3G, 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2011 – “There is no network effect in the enterprise software business; it’s not a category we invest in anymore”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox).

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 11, 2012

Unboxing a new TV you are asked to install widgets for Facebook and Twitter. Creating a prompt from photos and more gives you easy access to an already established social network that you want to share to anyway. Now however, you are greeted with ever familiar OAuth prompts for services you probably already have an account with.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Don’t forget that a low count shows “negative social proof” so if you want to use them, try using paywithatweet.com to get your ebook instead of a form. Then show the widgets when the count is high enough and switch back to a form. Social sharing : Ask people to share your page with their colleagues.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2011 – “There is no network effect in the enterprise software business; it’s not a category we invest in anymore”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox).

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Social media Mobile 2.0 CollectiveX – Create free group sites for collaboration and networking. Ximdesk – Collaboration and social networking platform for enterprise. CEOWorld.biz – Global networking for managers, entrepreneurs, and senior execs.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 3, 2008

Ben Kunz wrote an interesting article in this week’s BusinessWeek, but it wasn’t the controversial and inaptly-named title (“ Why Widgets Don’t Work ”) which caught my attention. He says “’do’ is where the web is headed in 2008,” citing social networks and other social services (e.g.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 3, 2008

Ben Kunz wrote an interesting article in this week’s BusinessWeek, but it wasn’t the controversial and inaptly-named title (“ Why Widgets Don’t Work ”) which caught my attention. He says “’do’ is where the web is headed in 2008,” citing social networks and other social services (e.g.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

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. ModCloth has a whole lot of social proof strategies. Think expansively about social proof. Significantly higher revenue awaits.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

A year or so ago, I noticed a marketing campaign by a company that involved offering bloggers a “plant a tree&# widget for their site – if you placed the banner on your site, they’d plant a tree. Also, make sure to start networking with important players in your industry (journalists, bloggers, etc.)

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 18, 2016

But don’t write the social network off if your business doesn’t fall into those industry categories. Of all the social networks, Pinterest is perhaps the most clearly skewed in one demographic direction: Pinterest is most commonly used by women ages 19 to 29, who have graduated college and make over $75,000 annually.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Specifically, an advertiser might be willing to pay $3 to have someone with 10,000 followers tweet about how great their widget is, as in this Ad.ly Companies like TweetUp and Ad.ly popped up as liaisons between advertisers and popular Twitter-ers. example: It's like AdSense for Twitter, if you like those kinds of analogies. Oh happy day!

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

Finally, for those who were (or still are) convinced that social networks would be the next big communication channel, consider this: In September of 2016, Business Insider reported that messaging apps had surpassed social networks in monthly active users (MAUs). billion MAUs for the top four social networks.

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Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

A few weeks ago Businessweek’s article Widget’s Worth talked about “cracking the monetization code,” wondering how social widget applications are going to make money. Now the new plan for distribution is facilitation through low-cost viral strategies via Facebook and other social media.

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Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

A few weeks ago Businessweek’s article Widget’s Worth talked about “cracking the monetization code,” wondering how social widget applications are going to make money. Now the new plan for distribution is facilitation through low-cost viral strategies via Facebook and other social media.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

While big ticket products might carry longer and more complex sales cycles, high-end buyers are just as lazy as the rest of us, so they use the same methods: Google, social media, and yes, their inboxes. Plus, it’s your personal network, and you probably want to have at least some control over who you’re hitting up.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

You can add a shipping calculator widget to your store to ensure transparency for buyers. Our next step was to find out the best content channels, and identifying the main social networks where our articles and posts had maximum visibility and shares. Make sure not to add any unexpected cost at the last minute.

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Trivia: Embed a multiple-choice game widget into a site, and spin up new games on any topic you like. Social Network Connectors: Enables users to enable/disable posting to, for example, Twitter and Facebook from your site, and displays “missions” for users to complete on respective social networks.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 11, 2011

There are many a Google Plus social network tutorial out there and this post is not intended to be one of them. It adds a widget to your blog that will display a link to your google+ profile so people can add you to a circle (follow you). And right now, our audience seems to be all over the still relatively new Google Plus.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Indeni – the only off-the-shelf solution offering true automation and proactive monitoring and remediation for network security devices. The Video Point - provides a content management system and publisher widget to integrate third party videos on publisher websites.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 11, 2011

There are many a Google Plus social network tutorial out there and this post is not intended to be one of them. It adds a widget to your blog that will display a link to your google+ profile so people can add you to a circle (follow you). And right now, our audience seems to be all over the still relatively new Google Plus.

Social Network 77

Social Network Social Media Widget Naming 77

www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

networking. It’s easier to control an inanimate widget on an assembly-line than a Human Being (“Candidate”) dealing with other Human Beings (“Recruiters”, “Sourcers”, or “Appointment Setters”). Social networking applications (SNAs). Networking. advertising.

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