Have trouble prioritizing? Gneo has the mobile task management platform for you!!!!

Have trouble prioritizing? Gneo has the mobile task management platform for you (via Pando Daily)

By Michael Carney On September 20, 2013 Leave it to a pair of management consultants to take a look at the current crop of mobile task management products in the market and see nothing but inefficiency. That’s exactly the realization led Gneo founders…

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Yesware raises a $13.5M Series B from Battery Ventures to drag sales from an art into science!!!!!

Yesware raises a $13.5M Series B from Battery Ventures to drag sales from an art into science (via Pando Daily)

By Michael Carney On September 18, 2013 The last several years have seen billions of dollars worth of value created in the marketing automation category with companies like Omniture (sold to Adobe for $1.8B), Bazaarvoice ($683M IPO), ExacTarget (sold…

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Fanium ushers fantasy football into the mobile-first era!!!!!!!!!

Fanium ushers fantasy football into the mobile-first era (via Pando Daily)

By Michael Carney On September 2, 2013 Fantasy sports are exploding in popularity of late and starting to remind me of where online poker was five to ten years ago. At a recent Major League Baseball league championship party, the winner walked away with…

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PromoJam launches Be Social Platform, marketing so easy a caveman could do it!!!!!!!!

PromoJam launches Be Social Platform, marketing so easy a caveman could do it (via Pando Daily)

By Michael Carney On August 6, 2013 Social marketing is everywhere. It’s not just global brands, but increasingly local small business and even operators of part-time Etsy and Shopify storefronts that are looking to reach their customers through social…

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Don’t expand to Europe without talking to Next World Capital first!!!!!!

Don’t expand to Europe without talking to Next World Capital first (via Pando Daily)

By Michael Carney On August 2, 2013 VCs regularly tout the “value added services” that they offer to their portfolio companies. For the most part this typically boils down to hiring, legal, PR, and other traditional professional services that a startup…

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Why yesterday’s bitcoin ponzi scheme indictment is good for the future of virtual currencies!!!!!!

Why yesterday’s bitcoin ponzi scheme indictment is good for the future of virtual currencies (via Pando Daily)

By Michael Carney On July 24, 2013 Its rare to be able to describe any incident of securities or financial fraud as a positive. But that’s exactly the case with yesterday’s indictment of alleged bitcoin Ponzi scheme operator Trendon T. Shavers of…

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On why the biggest tech companies are built in Silicon Valley!!!!!!

On why the biggest tech companies are built in Silicon Valley (via Pando Daily)

By Michael Carney On July 22, 2013 On Friday, ContentDJ founder Jerry Tian published a blog post addressing the issue of “Why Canada Has No Big Tech Companies” – Nortel is dead and RIM is quite obviously dying, he points out. Tian, who was himself…

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Bitcoin’s greatest value is in the world’s least stable economies!!!!!!!

Bitcoin’s greatest value is in the world’s least stable economies (via Pando Daily)

By Michael Carney On July 12, 2013 Bitcoin has faced its fair share of regulatory and reputational obstacles in the US, where the Department of Homeland Security, the IRS, and the DEA have each taken separate action against the crypto-currency. This…

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For Venture51, the early stage investing opportunity is all about the “traction gap”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For Venture51, the early stage investing opportunity is all about the “traction gap” (via Pando Daily)

By Michael Carney On July 5, 2013 It’s no secret that the early stage investment ecosystem is changing. More money than ever before is flowing into Seed deals, but companies are finding it increasingly difficult to raise follow-on Series A rounds.…

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SigFig rakes in $15M to continue its assault on the financial advisory status quo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SigFig rakes in $15M to continue its assault on the financial advisory status quo (via Pando Daily)

By Michael Carney On July 2, 2013 When evaluating financial services startups, the ability to scale customer acquisitions is often the biggest risk factor according to Bain Capital Ventures partner and industry expert Matt Harris. Given this fact, when…

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AnyPresence partners with Heroku to beef up its enterprise mBaaS offering!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AnyPresence partners with Heroku to beef up its enterprise mBaaS offering (via Pando Daily)

By Michael Carney On June 24, 2013 There’s an arms race going on among startups trying to drag enterprises onto mobile — kicking and screaming at times. These platforms, often called mBaaS (mobile backend as a service) or mPaaS (mobile platform as a service) typically solve for the scalability…

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Google Mine (if it’s real) could be the best or the worst thing to happen to the sharing economy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Google Mine (if it’s real) could be the best or the worst thing to happen to the sharing economy (via Pando Daily)

By Michael Carney On June 21, 2013 When was the last time you asked yourself, “I wonder which of my neighbors has a leaf blower?” or, “which of my friends has timeshare in Cabo?” or “…a poker table?” or “…the full Star Wars collection on Blue-ray?” or “…snowboard boots in a size…

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