Posts Tagged ‘web startup

Recognizing what a true pain setting up an eCommerce solution can be for small businesses, a number of startups have launched products that aim to simplify the process. PintPay, Chargify, Recurly and CheddarGetter are a few of the that enable sites to accept payments without having to deal with merchant accounts, complex fees and hiring [...]

This guest post was written by Kovas Boguta, Head of Analytics at Weebly. In 2009, Kovas wrote a guest post about visualizing real-time social structures. A decade ago, the open-source LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python) stack began to transform web startup economics. As new open-source webservers, databases, and web-friendly programming languages liberated developers from proprietary software [...]

Unnamed sources close to Groupon‘s financial decisions say the company is talking with bankers about an initial public offering (IPO) that would put the startup at a valuation somewhere between $15 and $20 billion. Turning down a $6 billion acquisition offer from Google isn’t looking like such a bad idea now. Groupon has just come [...]

Despite the overall economic downturn, there seems to be yet another boom in web startups. In the ’90s, we saw the explosion of the Internet’s first big names, like eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, and others. In the 2000′s, social networking and the beginnings of web apps took off, planting MySpace, Facebook, and Flickr firmly on the [...]

I have been thinking about getting more organized with my client list. Currently I am just using a spreadsheet and frequent inbox searches to get the information I need. You can probably guess this method has led to more than one snafu. When it is only costing me time, I don’t seem to notice so [...]


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