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| Feb 15, 2014 | 4 Rules of M&A for Startup Founders | The following post was written by @TomioGeron for ExitRound based on an interview with me and was published on the ExitRound blog on January 9th, 2014. It is being reproduced in its entirety here with permission from the author…
Manu Kumar... |
| Aug 27, 2013 | This is why developers make for great businesspeople | Startup founders are ninjas with black belts in turning ideas into products. They have to be.
But in addition to being great developers and designers, at the very beginning of the startup; they also need to do a lot of business work that th... |
| Jun 20, 2013 | Six ways to manage the computer clutter in your life | Article content
If you’ve lived long enough you may remember a time when you could clear the clutter off your desktop with a sweep of your arm.
Today it’s a little more complicated.
The clutter may not be so obvious but it’s lurking in your... |
| May 28, 2013 | Google Play Still Missing Top App Titles From iOS, Many Of Which Are Games | Many of today’s tech companies and startups are still building their apps for iOS first, despite Android’s growing market share. The problem stems from a lack of in-house talent, fewer Android-owning beta testers, technical hurdles, fragmen... |
| May 12, 2013 | CamCard, A Card-Scanning App That’s Dominating Asian Markets, Reaches 50M Users | While there’s a perennial debate on the West Coast about whether and when business cards might become irrelevant, they continue to be at the center of business customs in China and Japan.
It’s just basic etiquette when meeting a new contact... |
| Jul 19, 2012 | Announcing K9 Ventures II – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund | I am pleased to announce the formation of K9 Ventures II, L.P. – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund.
K9 Ventures started investing in 2009 with our first fund, K9 Ventures, L.P., which was a $6.25M fund designed to be deployed over 3-... |
| Apr 17, 2012 | Five tips for tapping prosumers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Everyone’s looking for a competitive edge both pe... |
| Mar 13, 2012 | LinkedIn expert: You should have 10x as many connections as your age | Most professionals these days have created accounts on LinkedIn and established connections with various co-workers, friends, clients and the like.
But how many connections should the average LinkedIn user have? Social media expert Neal Sch... |
| Feb 7, 2012 | LinkedIn Eats Rapportive: Let’s Hope the Magic Lives On | Several years ago, I spoke on a panel at an advertising industry conference with Om Malik and Michael Arrington. Arrington, my former employer, was bored by the conversation and mocked me throughout it. One of the last questions we were ask... |
| Dec 19, 2011 | End of year round-up: Must-have apps & accessories | The 11 things for your business you didn't know you couldn't live without
Most of us have figured out the go-to, day-to-day gadgets we rely on for our work – a smartphone, tablet, or laptop. But the array of accessories and apps out there f... |
| Oct 11, 2011 | Congratulations IndexTank! | |
| Aug 16, 2011 | 500 Startups Demo Day: McClure’s Second Batch Of Startups, Unleashed | We’re in Mountain View at Dave McClure’s 500 Startups HQ where the second-ever 500 Startups Demo Day is about to start. Today, 31 startups will present to press and investors here in McClure’s bright and sunny Mountain View office and you c... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Google To Buy Mobile Loyalty Card Startup Punchd | We’ve just gotten word that that Google plans on acquiring digital loyalty card service Punchd. The team, which consists of developers Reed Morse, Xander Pollock and Niket Desai (and formerly Grantland Chew), will most likely still be worki... |
| May 27, 2011 | Ideas Matter | There is this common adage that gets thrown around in startup circles that “Ideas don’t matter, and it’s all about the execution“. In fact, you can see for yourself what Google says when you search for “It’s not the idea, it’s the execution... |
| Jan 27, 2011 | CardMunch+LinkedIn= Love! | LinkedIn buys business card transcription service CardMunch
Are you so popular that you don’t even have time to process all of the phone numbers that people keep throwing at you? There’s an app for that. CardMunch, a Palo Alto-based service... |
| Jan 26, 2011 | LinkedIn wants your business cards, acquires CardMunch | CardMunch, a startup that automatically transcribes business cards, just announced that it has been acquired by professional networking site LinkedIn.
Cofounder and chief executive Bowei Gai demonstrated the iPhone app for me around the tim... |
| Jan 26, 2011 | LinkedIn Buys Business Card Converter CardMunch, Will Offer Its Services For Free | In perhaps one of the most like-minded and forward-thinking acquisitions I’ve ever seen, career-driven social network LinkedIn has bought CardMunch, a Shoeboxed-like startup that scans your business cards and accurately converts them into p... |
| Jan 26, 2011 | Congrats Team CardMunch! |
CardMunch announced today that it has been acquired by LinkedIn! The CardMunch acquisition marks the debut exit for K9 Ventures. A huge congratulations to the team: Bowei Gai, Sid Viswanathan, and Sudeep Yegnashankaran for having built an... |
| Sep 6, 2010 | New Apps for Your Mobile Phone: September Edition | There are now some 250,000 mobile applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPad, and over 70,000 for Android. How on earth do you find ones that are actually worth using? You could use a recommendation engine or website, an app that recommends a... |
| Sep 2, 2010 | Card reader CardMunch automates those pesky follow-up emails | A startup called CardMunch aims to best all the other business card reading applications out there, by offering fast, accurate card transcription. And it wants to become even more helpful with a new feature called Follow Up, which automates... |
| Aug 10, 2010 | Twitter Best Practices for Startups | Twitter has become part of almost every startups marketing and engagement strategy. It’s become a channel. Since some of my portfolio companies (@crowdflower, @twilio, @dnanexus, @highlightcam, and most recently @cardmunch) have been using ... |
| Aug 4, 2010 | CardMunch for iPhone Converts Your Business Cards Into Contacts — By Hand | In the past, I’ve written pretty extensively about my disdain for business cards — they add to clutter, and when you actually need to look up someone’s contact information, it’s like looking for a needle in a haystack. Alas, they’re still h... |
| Aug 4, 2010 | CardMunch: Business Cards Solved | I am super excited about today’s launch of CardMunch, Inc. CardMunch is a K9 Ventures portfolio company. In fact, it is one of K9’s first concept-stage investments — where the co-founders and K9 ventures worked together to develop the idea ... |
| LinkedIn expert: You should have 10x as many connections as your age | Most professionals these days have created accounts on LinkedIn and established connections with various co-workers, friends, clients and the like.
But how many connections should the average LinkedIn user have? Social media expert Neal Sch... |
| Fundador do Cardmunch (vendido ao Linkedin) fala sobre sua volta ao mundo | Encontrei André Diamand soltando pipa no pátio do #GEC2013 (veja nossa cobertura) com o chinês Bowei Gai, que fundou o aplicativo Cardmunch, adquirido pelo Linkedin no final do ano passado. “Antes disso, eu já tinha criado outras 4 empresas... |
