TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

Fresha — a multipurpose commerce tool for independent wellness and beauty businesses such as hair, nail and skin salons, yoga instructors and more, based first and foremost around a completely free subscription platform for those businesses to schedule bookings from customers — has picked up $100 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

I know that advertising is important to inform consumers of offers – the same reason many tech companies use SEM. At the time Google said it was against sponsored links because it confused the person searching for content – one of the main arguments people are again using about in-stream advertising.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. If you throw in Oculus into the mix along with TrueCar, Rubicon, Burstly, Beats and others LA Tech has seen more than $8 billion in exits in 2014 alone.

entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it.

networking

StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

Start by offering something of value for free to your potential audience in exchange for an email address, such as a discount coupon for your products, a free e-book, workbook, or even a free trial period for your service. Use this story, and the many others out there, to inspire you to build an engaged and active community of your own.

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

Consumers are forced to rely mostly on peer reviews and incur the additional friction of having to deal with the unit owner, who may double-book or rent out units illegally against city regulations, among a host of other issues, resulting in a largely unreliable user experience. The connective thread here is the use of technology.

hospitality

TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

SME-focused business travel booking platform TravelPerk has topped up the $160 million in equity and debt it raised last in a Series D last April with an additional $115 million — closing out the round at $275 million. It also plans to use the funding to double down on growth in its other large market: Europe.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. Too much of today’s economic growth comes from unsustainable models using limited resources.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. In my book, I collects all the best scholarships, fellowships, and other programs for high-achieving young people. . 1) Your school.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In his book YES IS THE ANSWER. You write that the title of the book, Yes Is the Answer: What Is the Question? , It’s about mixing patience with your determination to succeed. When we make mistakes and use the 3 A’s—acknowledge, apologize, and act—with humility and honesty, 95% of people can find a way to forgive us.

hospitality

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The computer will "pair program" with them--riffing back, helping them explore sounds, mixing inspirations, etc. How much more exciting would piano lessons have been if I could have skipped a few pages in the practice book and used a computer to help me compose real music? It will also help create more composers as well.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

They do include e-commerce experiences, but also companies building interactive tools for customers to look at, mix, and match various light fixtures from a lighting consultancy; more standard publishing services; and for helping tailor materials for emergency medical training services.

mix-use

Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

Atomos is building the railroad of space using high-powered electric propulsion space tugs to move satellites to any orbit beyond low Earth orbit. We launched in Denver as it is an aerospace hub with a lively startup community, which also has the perfect mix of cost-of-living and lifestyle that make it desirable for aerospace talent.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2023

This data can be used to improve future events and marketing efforts. Environmental benefits: Online events are more environmentally friendly than in-person events, as they do not require travel and often use fewer resources, leading to less waste. Then use the StreamYard Giveaway Tool to select audience participants to win.

B2B marketing

TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

Sounds like a useful feature, no? Often, they’re found in the review sections for books and movies, where, in my anecdotal experience, Amazon reviewers tend to be more… verbose. Perhaps for shoppers and sellers. But what about reviewers? I’m not going to make the case that Amazon reviews are a form of high art.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Booking.com started in 1996 and was later acquired by Priceline Group (now called Booking Holdings) in 2005. Elastic, the provider of subscription-based data search software used by Dell, Netflix, The New York Times and others, was another gangbuster IPO in 2018. This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. Online marketing uses techniques for driving promotion and place. Simply write a great book?

peer-to-peer

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

These articles are only available to members, but you can use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one or two-year subscription. Starling Bank founder Anne Boden says new book ‘isn’t a memoir’. “It’s been written over several years, and I’m hoping to use this to inspire a generation of entrepreneurs.”

SaaS

Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

The most common example of this phenomenon is in the books category. For example, Cliffs Variety, an independent home goods store in San Francisco’s Castro district, uses a Facebook page to alert neighborhood residents about store openings, pickup times, and product availability. Will the behavior changes from COVID-19 be permanent?

accelerator

TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Released in 2011, “Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle” was a book that laid claim to the idea that Israel was an unusual type of country. It had produced, and was poised to produce, an enormous number of technology startups, given its relatively small size. Waze’s 100 employees received about $1.2

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

The startup’s vision is to build a platform and digital tools to drive awareness and accelerate the uptake of green jobs, using techniques like bite-sized learning and algorithmic matching of jobseekers to connect them with relevant opportunities to help build and power up the green economy.

energy

David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Q: What are the tools you’re using for your front office: sourcing , LP relations, investing analysis, etc.? Calendly speeds up scheduling for pitch call Q: What are the tools you’re using for your middle office: tracking, risk management, etc.? We also have a fractional CFO that keeps our books and acts as a fund administrator.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 19, 2024

However, the process is challenging due to language barriers, bureaucratic hurdles and the need to prove qualifications that are difficult to verify from my home country.” - Refugee in the Netherlands Meanwhile, Africa and the Middle East host substantial refugee populations while providing a mix of opportunities and restrictions.

entrepreneurship

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The classic 3D creation uses these heavyweight blenders, 3D Studio or Maya. Roblox Studio uses these things. For a while, at Roblox, we were thinking, “How do we make Roblox Studio easier to use? Two million people use it.” We want to use all of the data in an opt-in fashion to help make these better.

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Reforge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We’ll make our case using an example of a big, risky bet: turning off your highest performing channel. We’ll explain how to adapt the framework to your own use cases, and take a peek under the hood for those that want to dive deeper. Use the free Big Bet calculator to think through the math. Let’s quantify this a bit.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I imagine everyone at this point has used a Zoom Webinar, so we don’t need a full demo, but just so you know, please use the chat to connect with your fellow attendees. After having read Elad Gil’s book, I understand why. So great of you to join us. But we’re so thrilled to have her join with Tomasz.

leadership

TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

TechCrunch: Do you an idea of how quickly that might happen — in terms of getting the law onto the statute books? This is sample data that we use — that we extracted from business data analysis. We should not mix up the goal of the startup law with the broad vision of the strategy. So that’s why we have put the focus here.

startup ecosystem

Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

What we later saw during the pandemic was our business took a major turn towards growth in Q4 ’20 as our mix of off-premise tasting and digital solutions amplified one another. How soon until you authenticate users using Ethereum (and the MetaMask browser extension)? It created a snowball effect whereby we had our best year in ’21.

communities

Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

How An Algorithm Transformed The Music Industry And Created The Mobile & Social Web As the music industry recently announced its first annual revenue growth after 15 years of uninterrupted contraction, I thought it was a good time to share some of the things I learnt from reading Stephen Witt’s book How Music Got Free.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs. Ideas for books, podcasts, video series, investigative research, essays, educational campaigns, and creative proposals. Aspen Tech Policy Hub. Skoll Foundation.

startup

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

I underline portions of books, but those clips just sit dormant on the device, completely unsharable. What I’d really like to do is share all my book quotes on Tumblr. ". On top of that, the atomic element of the reading experience isn't the book or the post--both of which match the atomic element of the web, the URL.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? In his book “Unicorn in the Woods: How East Coast Geeks and Dreamers are Changing the Game , ” Pitts recounts how in March 2011 Salesforce purchased New Brunswick-based social media monitoring company Radian6 for approximately $300 million.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Use chronological scenario planning to help your startup get through a potential recession. Use chronological scenario planning to help your startup get through a potential recession. Carly writes that cybercrime operation RansomHouse (why do these sound like book publishers?) chipmaker AMD.

disruption

Reforge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Then dive into how Hollywood uses memes to help people find the right movie to watch, to introduce you to the concept of memetics. Finally we’ll run through a step-by-step example of how to use Meme Mapping to get a more consistent return on investment from experimentation. He is currently writing a book on Marketing Memetics.

creativity

Y Combinator

MAY 15, 2019

Jonathan Gill [01:03] – From the current state of the podcasting market, ad-supported sponsorship is one way forward when people are used to free products versus television and cable where they’re used to different tiers. The ecosystem for podcasting and paid-for content in China is much greater than even in the US.

culture

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. Additionally, all of us that have been consumers of the U.S. He runs the Game Show Network.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Companies that embrace this new model, called interaction field companies, generate, facilitate and benefit from interactions and data exchanges among multiple people and groups—from customers and stakeholders, but also from those you wouldn’t expect to be in the mix, like suppliers, software developers, regulators and even competitors. .

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