mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. There are multiple approaches you can take to staffing when it comes to IT projects.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

As a CEO of a technological startup, I often need to find trustworthy information as quickly as possible. They have completely changed the social network space, managing to innovate new ways to monetize creativity while competing against popular social media platforms. 4- Wikipedia. Photo Credit: Tomek Mlodzki.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

The assets you can protect may include your “core technology&# like source code, hardware designs, architectures, processes, formulas. software, songs, movies, web site content. _. non-public technology. technology, business information. _. new technology. Intellectual Property. Trade Secrets. _.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Social networks. They became popular for socializing, but now are prime sources of business networking, customer service, and client leads. Rates per click are very low, so don’t try to live on ad revenues until visit rates are very high. You are now reading one of 50 million out there already. Viral marketing.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

That phrase died during the tech-bubble along with "portal" and "think outside the box," yet the concept has returned. It's hard to think of disruptive technologies or products that didn't take many millions of dollars to implement. Most technology we now consider "disruptive" wasn't conceived that way. Don't follow along.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Consumer spending is 70% of the economy and will continue to be stretched – We can look all we want at tech innovation, VC funding cycles and hot M&A deals, but ultimately growth and therefore investment must be underpinned by revenue. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital.

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venturedig.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The business models within the social media realm are much different than traditional businesses. In social networking, they’re ever-changing, backed by eye-opening revenue and have very little documentation. Total Estimated Revenue For Year: $200 million. Total Estimated Revenue For Year: $75 million.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

. - Customer content and engagement built rapid growth in the success of Intel ’s social media and Web-based marketing efforts, increasing “customer contacts” by a factor of tenfold and overall page views by 100x. Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia).

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Facebook doesn’t exist, even as a walled-garden college social network (Mark Zuckerberg was part way through his freshman year at Harvard). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

You often end up with lots of half-done experiments lying around, an infrastructure that isn’t built to scale, and a mishmash of code that needs to be refactored. Anyway, let’s dive into this topic more, starting with technical debt. This technical debt is the non-strategic result of doing a poor job.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

If you want to supercharge your marketing and accelerate growth and revenue, you’ll love this guide. A chatbot (or bot) is a piece of automated software that engages in a conversation with people. Messaging has eclipsed social networks in popularity. Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Messenger Basics.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Revenue needs to grow 20x, and margins must expand dramatically. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Let’s look at each figure.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. How do you use LinkedIn?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc). We told the horror story of the company that originally owned the URL groupon.com and lost it due to not having a trademark.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? venture capitalists are now asking tougher questions about start-ups' revenue and profits.". Perhaps I need to rethink that. But second, how do you back this up?

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

If youre highly technical and drive the technology vision of the company, people will get it without you tacking on the CTO title. Lack of Technical Leadership In my definition, to call a company a tech startup, there must be some significant technology that gives you an advantage. Thats a REALLY bad sign.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

The tech-savvy millennials (me being one of them) are already familiar with the “shareware” concept that was turned into freemium. We run into this kind of software services every day—Google, Youtube, Instagram, and so on. Solving the equation of value and revenue for your SaaS product is not easy. Freemium isn’t free.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

That I’ve had a few “exits” and instead of hunkering down and writing code for 6 months I opted to talk to a few of my buddies at the yacht club and purchase a primed and growing social network for somewhere in the mid-seven figures. No inquiry as to why they never installed the code. My Background.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. but: Something is Still Missing.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Bplans and Palo Alto Software are strong supporters of entrepreneurs and small business owners. There are metrics to review. Social networks come and go, but people always have an inbox—and they want to be connected with people who bring them value. Building a list and setting up email templates and campaigns takes time.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up. My one feedback would be to have networking earlier in the agenda or sprinkled throughout the 6 hour agenda. Nexpense - you streamline business expense processing, but how, what’s cool about the technology?

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

As I was looking at traffic stats I noticed a huge increase in mid-November due to a number of write-ups on startup and web-2.0 I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. 11 Why Free Plans Don’t Work | Software by Rob on 08.18.10 at 6:32 am [.]

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2020

Below, I discuss five fresh and relevant features for marketers, regardless of technical ability: Kaggle datasets; Kaggle community analyses; Kaggle Notebooks; Kaggle cloud integrations; Machine learning with Kaggle. To make the most of Kaggle, having some ability to work with code is helpful. There’s an optional Google login.)

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Brandanew

AUGUST 22, 2016

And that’s when we started to build Zoho social and now I am a part of the team that works on building this tool. Upasna : I have so much respect for people who have such an organic pathway towards social media or any technology. For example, they can generate leads from their social media actions.

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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. All things being equal, you may prioritize big data software companies over printing companies, for example. Who is most receptive?

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BeyondVC

APRIL 11, 2007

While much of today’s online and social networking growth is being driven by teens and college students, very rarely do I get the opportunity to learn about interesting companies through the eyes of my young children. Being a technology VC, I would be a complete hypocrite if I did not let my children try these services.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up. My one feedback would be to have networking earlier in the agenda or sprinkled throughout the 6 hour agenda. Nexpense – you streamline business expense processing, but how, what’s cool about the technology?

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The reason feedback - specifically from actual customers - is usually chosen is because it is more on the science side than the art side, but I surely cant knock those people and teams that can deliver product excellence due to vision, luck or art. -- arrel 215 days ago | link. social network/web analysis/etc. Shocking, I know.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

It appears that LTV should be about 3 x CAC for a viable SaaS or other form of recurring revenue model. Examples of free products include Open Source software, services like HubSpot’s Website Grader , free versions of a SaaS service that have limited, but still valuable, feature sets, etc. have multiples that are more like 5 x CAC.)

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

As we plan the website, they’re messaging their content, even SEO has to be a part of that, even how we structure their entire business to some degree before we even start talking about, as you said, the technical aspects. If you start a bakery, you are no less an entrepreneur than someone who starts a tech company.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

With each hand, a small percentage of the pot is scraped off by the dealer, which in essence becomes the “revenue” for the casino. While casinos use the term “rake,” a plethora of interesting word choices exist which all describe the same thing – keeping a little bit of the revenue for the company that is running the service.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

90 Things I’ve Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies. On October 27, 2010 I wrote a blog post about the “ 57 Things I Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies.”. 90 Things I’ve Learned Founding 4 Tech Companies: Find your company’s One Thing. ?? Fab.com Fab Feed Bradfords Blog. So, here goes. It’s that important.

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