Categorie: social

Rentcycle Becomes Getable; Launches In-Store Management Platform For Rental Shops

apps, collaborative consumption, Getable, mobile, rentals, rentcycle, social, Startups, TC

getableConsumer_RGB_HorizAttempting to bring a brick-and-mortar industry online is no easy feat. It takes time, investment, and a willingness to roll with the punches. San Francisco-based startup Rentcycle graduated from Founder Institute in 2009 with a mission to bring the “rentals industry” online, offering free, realtime reservations for consumers and cloud-based business management and product listing solutions for local rental shops.

After graduating from Founder Institute, the startup went through several beta launches, before raising a $1.4 million seed round from Collaborative Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, Founder Collective, and Amicus Capital, as well as angel investors including Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal and Chairman at Yelp, and Founder of Shopzilla Farhad Mohit.

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Rentcycle Becomes Getable; Launches In-Store Management Platform For Rental Shops

apps, collaborative consumption, Getable, mobile, rentals, rentcycle, social, Startups, TC

getableConsumer_RGB_HorizAttempting to bring a brick-and-mortar industry online is no easy feat. It takes time, investment, and a willingness to roll with the punches. San Francisco-based startup Rentcycle graduated from Founder Institute in 2009 with a mission to bring the “rentals industry” online, offering free, realtime reservations for consumers and cloud-based business management and product listing solutions for local rental shops.

After graduating from Founder Institute, the startup went through several beta launches, before raising a $1.4 million seed round from Collaborative Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, Founder Collective, and Amicus Capital, as well as angel investors including Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal and Chairman at Yelp, and Founder of Shopzilla Farhad Mohit.

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Key Takeaways From The Facebook Marketing Conference

facebook, facebook marketing conference, social, TC

Facebook Reach GeneratorFacebook has a grand scheme to make advertising on its properties less risky and less guess-work than buying ads anywhere else on the Internet. Facebook wants ads to be content, and now its Reach Generator allows advertisers to pay a fixed fee to guarantee that their content is seen by 75 percent of their fans. Of all the announcements made at the Facebook Marketing Conference on Wednesday, Reach Generator is the most innovative because it provides a powerful alternative to CPC and CPM for the world’s richest brands, and a way for Facebook make more efficient use of its inventory.

Here’s a breakdown of Reach Generator and the other big news from the Facebook Marketing Conference, and how it changed the marketing industry landscape.

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Key Takeaways From The Facebook Marketing Conference

facebook, facebook marketing conference, social, TC

Facebook Reach GeneratorFacebook has a grand scheme to make advertising on its properties less risky and less guess-work than buying ads anywhere else on the Internet. Facebook wants ads to be content, and now its Reach Generator allows advertisers to pay a fixed fee to guarantee that their content is seen by 75 percent of their fans. Of all the announcements made at the Facebook Marketing Conference on Wednesday, Reach Generator is the most innovative because it provides a powerful alternative to CPC and CPM for the world’s richest brands, and a way for Facebook make more efficient use of its inventory.

Here’s a breakdown of Reach Generator and the other big news from the Facebook Marketing Conference, and how it changed the marketing industry landscape.

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SV Angel Also Buying Up Foursquare Stock. Dennis Crowley Emerges As Big-Company CEO

apps, Fundings & Exits, mobile, social, Startups, TC

dennis-naveenSpark Capital isn’t the only existing investor buying up Foursquare employee stock in an up round, I’ve learned. Legendary investor SV Angel is, too. That’s an unusual move considering that the firm typically focuses on early-stage deals. Why?

Yes, there’s the promise of Foursquare becoming the way that you find interesting people and locations around you, the source of data for deals, discovery and yield management. But there’s a more human reason why these investors are going out of their way to get more stock at a higher price, too. And its name is Dennis Crowley, chief executive officer.

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SV Angel Also Buying Up Foursquare Stock. Dennis Crowley Emerges As Big-Company CEO

apps, Fundings & Exits, mobile, social, Startups, TC

dennis-naveenSpark Capital isn’t the only existing investor buying up Foursquare employee stock in an up round, I’ve learned. Legendary investor SV Angel is, too. That’s an unusual move considering that the firm typically focuses on early-stage deals. Why?

Yes, there’s the promise of Foursquare becoming the way that you find interesting people and locations around you, the source of data for deals, discovery and yield management. But there’s a more human reason why these investors are going out of their way to get more stock at a higher price, too. And its name is Dennis Crowley, chief executive officer.

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Porn And Parenting: The Brave New World

Opinion, social, Startups, TC

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O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world!
That has such people in it!

This quote, from Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”, embodies a perspective I think many fathers such as myself are experiencing as our children enter this amazing world of technology we now live in. In the play, Miranda, raised most of her life on an isolated island, comes upon a group of drunk sailors straggling off a ship. Miranda, oblivious to any sort of “morals”, or “culture”, was fascinated by this “Brave New World” she had come in contact with.

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Porn And Parenting: The Brave New World

Opinion, social, Startups, TC

200px-BraveNewWorld_FirstEdition

O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world!
That has such people in it!

This quote, from Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”, embodies a perspective I think many fathers such as myself are experiencing as our children enter this amazing world of technology we now live in. In the play, Miranda, raised most of her life on an isolated island, comes upon a group of drunk sailors straggling off a ship. Miranda, oblivious to any sort of “morals”, or “culture”, was fascinated by this “Brave New World” she had come in contact with.

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Work 3.0: How The Employment Model Needs to Change

ecommerce, Enterprise, Gary Swart, oDesk, Opinion, social, TC, Work 3.0

team 061 rWith the economy still struggling to recover, key indicators of economic performance are largely focused on traditional employment — we are fixated on how many people have managed to find on-site, single-employer jobs. But is this an outdated perspective?

Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath would say so. In a recent blog post for Harvard Business Review, McGrath questions the pervasive assumption that “regular” employment is always the most stable and desirable. She writes, “Many of the assumptions about society that we take for granted are based on the notion that relatively stable employment relationships are the norm. When will our thinking catch up with the new reality?”

Anyone looking for a job or tasked with hiring must wonder what this means for them.

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Work 3.0: How The Employment Model Needs to Change

ecommerce, employment, Enterprise, Gary Swart, Opinion, social, TC, Work 3.0

team 061 rWith the economy still struggling to recover, key indicators of economic performance are largely focused on traditional employment — we are fixated on how many people have managed to find on-site, single-employer jobs. But is this an outdated perspective?

Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath would say so. In a recent blog post for Harvard Business Review, McGrath questions the pervasive assumption that “regular” employment is always the most stable and desirable. She writes, “Many of the assumptions about society that we take for granted are based on the notion that relatively stable employment relationships are the norm. When will our thinking catch up with the new reality?”

Anyone looking for a job or tasked with hiring must wonder what this means for them.

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