InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! To update Marc Andreessen’s widely publicized quote from 2011, “OpenStack Software Defined Networks (SDNs) are eating the world.” Eating The World – All Over Again.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2013

See my previous article on “ Get A Domain Name Without Bankrupting Your Startup ” Michael Fertik and David Thompson bring this issue and many others together in their book “ Wild West 2.0. There are several major free blogging platforms you can use to claim your identity, including WordPress , Google Blogger , and LiveJournal.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! Founded in 2011, Z Supply, LLC has created five women’s fashion brands with a sixth brand and extension into Men’s, launching Spring 2017.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. They hit the coveted one million user milestone and within two years a billion tweets had been sent on the platform. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. It had strong platform usage.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Enter Vidzey , the in-video shopping platform that seamlessly combines media, entertainment and e-commerce. Two articles, side by side. ” Article 1 discussed the digital revolution and how companies like Netflix and Hulu were taking over. It was 2011, so these were valid questions. ” THE SALES PLATFORM.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

This article wasn’t actually from a single interview, but the result of a couple of conversations with a co-founder of Rap Genius , the wildly profiled lyrics annotation site. What they do: They’re a website, platform, and now mobile-app for crowdsourced annotation of song lyrics and texts. Rap Genius, Black Sheeps of Tech.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2013

In a 2011 CDC report , nearly 67% of U.S Compound that by the exponential growth of smart devices from 2011-2013 , we’re looking at a need for rapid development in the next few years. Bolded items discussed within this article*. We use our phones to navigate, communicate, shop (yes, sometimes), all while on the go.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses. Cyrus Farudi is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Flipswap, Inc in 2004 and Capsule in 2011.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

In a recent Forbes.com article , contributor Tara Brown wrote of her own misapprehension moving from San Francisco to Southern California, saying, “I’m a technologist and moving away from the tech hub of the world to the land of Botox seemed like a really bad career move. billion for its endowment in 2011 alone. We came to play.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

This article originally ran on TechCrunch. In the “long tail” you can become enormously valuable if you’re a platform. In 2011 YouTube had 1 trillion views, which is the equivalent of every human watching 140 videos. If you haven’t read it you should consider adding it to you library.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

is already well above the dot.com bubble of 15 years ago, although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011. An unprecedented number of startups, easily 25 and possibly exceeding 40, are valued today at $1 billion or more, according to a recent NY Times article.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Yet the number of businesses looking to build on the Facebook platform seems to have increased. They looked unstoppable.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. But one common theme I’m hearing from there in 2011 is that it’s impossible to recruit. Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." Venture Bonsai Takes Crowdfunding To A New Level - ArcticStartup , November 22, 2010 Venture Bonsai is a new crowdfunding platform that is in private "invitation stage" as the co-founder of the company, Antti Hannula, states. Maybe you could get v1.0

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

This article was originally published on TechCrunch. The full articles are linked below. 2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. August 2011. On your tech platforms. Why is that? Yesterday was a Monday.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

Ranjit Mathoda said it best in the previously linked NY Times article: “Thomas Jefferson used newspapers to win the presidency, F.D.R. Companies such as Starbucks, McDonalds, IBM, Motorola & SAP are using their platform that is now generating more than 1 million job leads per month according to the company.

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