Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Gogii is the creator of the 36th most downloaded application in the history of the iPhone app store – a product called textPlus. If you download the app on your iPhone or Android phone you can save more than $200 / year on text messaging. The opportunity came up to invest in this one and I pounced. More on that later.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Community isn’t a single Slack group or event or newsletter. Despite this nebulous, disconnected reality, companies are paying more attention to various channels as remote work and digital communication powers our days. who is building the best community in edtech right now? — natasha (@nmasc_) February 16, 2021.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 16, 2011

That’s why I was so interested in having “ The Gotham Gal &# come on This Week in VC ( video link on YouTube , download iTunes, episode 15) ) and dispel those myths. Be a mensch – the world is small than you think and bad karma will catch up to you “We’re in a very small community.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In fact, TikTok was the most downloaded and highest grossing non-game app globally in the first half of 2021. A few of our favorite projects include an open call to the TikTok community to find a Chief TikTok Officer for Nerf and the first-ever TikTok-native reality show with e.l.f.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 15, 2024

We asked Aaron Houghton of EO Colorado to share how he overcame burnout and developed a unique solution, Dory, to help him master mental resilience, which grew into the world’s largest community dedicated solely to stress reduction for entrepreneurs. Connection practices bring us closer to the people, communities, and identities we hold dear.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Company reports 250,000 users in 49 countries with 1mm+ application downloads. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies. Fast-growing application store with more than 1billion apps downloaded (second in size only to Apple). Competitors: Skype. Current round: $16.5mm in Series-B.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 15, 2013

He investigated successful models, like Toca Boca, downloaded every top educational app on the App Store, and played alongside his two sons, carefully observing and absorbing their feedback. He spent a year and a half researching the educational app market and discovered it was (and is) a market that really lacks for quality brands.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

Or app companies that went viral due to spammy friend requests to download in an app store only to have a community backlash and subsequent crash. “Hacking” growth is only sustainable with a truly great product.

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UBI Global

JANUARY 27, 2023

Download the World Rankings Report 2021-2022 Recognizing Excellence Among Business Incubators and Accelerators from the World Benchmark Study 2021-2022 The UBI Global research team has released the World Rankings Report 2021-2022 of business incubators and accelerators as the result of the World Benchmark Study for 2021-2022.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

He penned a great piece on the LA tech community here in Forbes. You can watch on YouTube or download the podcast (for the gym!) They recently exited their investment in Gaikai for $380 million while their rival OnLive (who had raised > $200 million) just went through bankruptcy. Not bad, hey? Both companies were in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

You can of course view the presentation in SlideShare above or download it directly for free here. billion page views making it the largest communities of artists in the world. Why is Collaborative Consumption Becoming a Hot Trend for Startup Companies? That’s why dA has nearly 70 million monthly actives producing 2.5

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UBI Global

JANUARY 26, 2021

A fascinating look at the innovation ecosystem in Pakistan in a free download from UBI Global With 140 million people under the age of 30, Pakistan is one of the youngest country demographics in the world – with one of the fastest-growing economies in Aisa. As the country experiences population growth, the question is who […].

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

As a person who spends much time thinking about the venture capital & startup community and who has seen good times & bad times across many economic cycles the article is well written. Fooling us into downloading an app to watch a video and afterward feeling duped. And headlines. And approbation.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

You can watch him on YouTube , download in iTunes (for gym or commute) 3/31/11 edition. I figured if Matt was on the verge of bankruptcy and one mentor changed his trajectory, what if we had a formalized, community-wide program? Matt is one of the most transparent, focused & honest startup guys you’ll meet.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JANUARY 29, 2021

Much of what we do as startup community builders requires in-person interactions through workshops, meetups, and other events. But the Covid pandemic pushed the big pause button on in-person events that are the beating heart of many startup communities. We’re leaning heavily on our digital platforms to keep the community engaged.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

On the company’s website , you can browse thousands of pre-trained machine-learning models, participate in the developer community with your own model, download datasets and more. It’s a community-driven platform with a ton of repositories. Essentially, Hugging Face is building the GitHub of machine learning.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

That time is now, and Yana is now among the top three downloaded apps in Mexico and 12 countries, including Spain, Chile, Ecuador and Venezuela. Some of those people would download the app again months later when hit with another crisis. “We We also want to include a community inside our application.”.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As a result, a number of staggering for-profit online communities have already been established. However, many communities aiming for social good are struggling to replicate such successes due to a lack of funds, experience and skilled support. It’s time to start working together to build flourishing online communities for impact. .

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). I do something I now call community hours. And so that is a steady import of talent but even more interestingly what it really did is it re-energized the entrepreneurial community.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

most Internet connections have been asymmetric & optimized for downloads). Aren’t all online communities like this?). Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. cheap post-production process by tools (think Pro Tools for audio, Instagram filters). cheap or free cloud storage (YouTube, DropBox, Facebook).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By streaming the data, the data scientist or developer no longer has to download all of this data to a local laptop, but sends it through for use by the model in the same way that Netflix streams a movie to you, so you aren’t downloading the whole thing to your local machine. The program has been downloaded 300,000 times so far.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

They built a quick version of the app, put together a Discord community to spread the word and shared a few videos on TikTok and Instagram. In just a few weeks, Revyze managed to attract 35,000 downloads. Building the community behind the app. Videos are validated by us and by the community,” Perrot said. “We

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Gust

MARCH 9, 2014

Create meaningful content and engage others online (free downloads, white papers, webinars, regular blogging). Create referral marketing opportunities within your business community that maximize the potential for customer referrals. A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Monthly active users have almost doubled to 120 million this year and the company has seen 800,000 downloads a day thanks, in part, to the wildly popular game Among Us (which received a ringing endorsement from the popular congressional representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ). AOC’s Among Us stream topped 435,000 concurrent viewers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Flux says its technology is supported by “all modern browsers,” requiring no downloads. The Community Library, meanwhile, offers access to schematics, models and open source parts — a little bit GitHub, a little bit Makerbot Thingiverse. Image Credits: Flux. The system features a simulator, automated part-sourcing and version control.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

While many communities of gamers already share content on Twitch, Discord and Reddit, there isn’t a dominant mobile app focused on gaming. With Powder, the company seems to have found a great distribution mechanism to attract more downloads, leading to more users. million people have downloaded the iOS app since its launch.

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Forward Cities

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT. Communities around the country are increasingly recognizing the transformative economic and community-building power of Anchor Institutions (Anchors) — those sizable entities with physical, cultural and economic ties to a community such as universities, hospitals, local government, and large corporations.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On a community level, however, designers and others were upset: They had adopted Figma precisely because it was not Adobe. Launched a year ago, the startup has seen tens of thousands of downloads and 15,000 “stars” on GitHub. Athos is a repeat backer: It also invested in an earlier $2.6 “Developers care about that.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Leveraging a freemium model, Uppbeat allows creators to sign up for an account that provides access to around 50% of the site’s catalog and provides 10 downloads per month. mo) provides full access and unlimited downloads. (A “Since Uppbeat went live, the response from the creator community has been truly incredible.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

Similar to Spotify, the Uppbeat website leverages a freemium model, To get started, creators can sign up for a free account that provides access to about 50% of the site’s roughly 1,000-track music catalog and 10 downloads per month. The paid plan offers full catalog access and no download limit.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 24, 2022

Arrow alone is downloaded millions of times per month. The result of all this effort is a community of people passionate about data who congregate at Subsurface , our biannual conference, which draws thousands of attendees and hundreds of talks.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Mostaque co-founded and bootstrapped Stability AI in 2020, motivated both by a personal fascination with AI and what he characterized as a lack of “organization” within the open source AI community. We’re completely independent,” Mostaque told TechCrunch in a previous interview.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

There are a number of no-code platforms out there, but I started using Bubble last year and have built several projects on it (including the MVP of my startup Gaya : a platform enabling people in close-knit communities to share their cars with each other). Bubble has a vibrant developer community that can help you with technical issues.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

Since its launch six months ago, Serverless Stack has grown to over 2,000 stars on GitHub and was downloaded more than 60,000 times. The proof is in the pudding, and if they can get people to adopt it, like they did on GitHub so far, and keep that community engagement, that is my strongest signal of staying power.”.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 27, 2022

In this role, I spearhead a program that helps veterans and community heroes like teachers, police, firefighters, medical professionals and social workers acquire housing. Building relationships and enhancing a sense of community. The way to make sure that your community can trust you is by showing up. Sign up now.

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Paul G. Silva

APRIL 7, 2020

Here is what the 4×3 foot poster looks like: Download & print the 4×3 ft poster , grab some sticky notes, and follow along. Relationships with people such as: customers, volunteers, alumni, other organizations/companies, government agencies, your community. Nothing fancier than a pen, open-mind and sticky notes required!

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Sketchfab has been building a platform to upload, download, view, share, sell and buy 3D assets. Epic Games buys artist community ArtStation, drops commissions to 12%. New York-based startup Sketchfab has been acquired by Epic Games , the company behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine. Epic Games isn’t disclosing the terms of the deal.

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