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9 Innovative Startups To Watch For in 2024

Tech.Co

Gumroad Gumroad is a web-builder and ecommerce platform that lets creators sell products directly to consumers. What started as a weekend project in 2012 is now a global marketplace that attracted 55.2 million site visits in October alone. Gumroad homepage. Writesonic Library screenshot. million in 2022 to $5 million in 2023.

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Carving An Internet Niche With FamousBirthdays.com

socalTECH

We caught up with founder Evan Britton about how his company has created the top site in the Internet niche of celebrity birthdays, and how that intense focus on a single niche--and user experience- has paid off for the company in terms of user engagement and growth. That was the genesis of the site. It was discouraging.

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Interview with Anne Walls and John Singleton, WordHustler

socalTECH

Writers can log into our site, upload their project, and select from over 4,000 markets, and send their work out to the world physically with a single click. In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click.

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How to Find and Hire a Developer

Tech Zulu Event

At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. A developer should be asking you questions trying to identify how users interact with a site or application. web & mobile development resources to find and hire a developer.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

socalTECH

2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way. Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world. What we do, is we help companies identify who is accessing their sites, and registering for their services. Steve Jillings: We have really big stuff coming in 2012.

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Twitter, Jobs, Democracy & The US Elections

Both Sides of the Table

I know it’s easier to write “horse race&# stories about who’s signing up more users, raising more funding or who’s “hot&# lately. In a world where it’s easier to judge the immediate value of a business, I know that metrics like “time on site&# matter. On the open web.

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An Entrepreneur Platform To Put You Above the Crowd

Startup Professionals Musings

According to the most recent study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were approximately 514,000 new businesses created per month in the US in 2012. The days when you could launch your business with a new web site, and the phone would begin to ring, are long gone. Make your customers your platform.

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