Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

Feature: Market trends

Friday, January 22nd, 2010
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While we are working hard to get our BIG core feature out really soon, I wanted to highlight one nice little feature in our service that we added in our previous update – The Market Trends.

When the startup profile is listed in our service with related industries that the startup is working on, we can pull out real time information about what’s being said in twitter about those topics. – So those that are interested to learn more about what going on in each startups industry, will always have easy access to trending information.

Market Trends

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Naming companies & Angel investing

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
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Came across this great video of Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss in Twitter via @startupcfo. I like the direction that they are taking with this video and expect to get more “laid back” stuff from them in future. Many usable tips for any start-up or Angel investor.

Topics include:

-How to test company or product names using Google AdWords
-Kevin’s criteria for both good site names and good angel investments
-The role of start-up “advisors” and investors
-How I choose companies to work with: overlap, PR options, UI design…


Tim and Kevin from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.

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User Experience at Grow VC

Friday, March 20th, 2009
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Christoffer LangenskiöldHi, my name is Chris(toffer) and I stand for User Experience at Grow VC. I work and live here in Helsinki (Finland) with my wife and my 4 year-old twins. My free time? Astanga yoga, cruising on my sector9 and Grow VC : )

With a background in Cognitive Technologies, User-centered Product Development and a strong personal interest in visual design, I end-up noticing every little details when I walk down the street, whether they make something easy-to-use, crash-and-burn or flow. Anyway, I manage anything related to the user experience, from user studies to UI design, via branding and marketing.

During the past few months, I’ve been studying entrepreneurs, start-ups, business angels and how early phase funding is done today. Not very pretty: according to Scott Shane writes in Fool’s Gold, less than 1.5% of angel backed start-ups end in exits. It is facts like that which drive me when I design Grow VC. Aiming at a place where people would grow as investors and entrepreneurs. Get the best feedback, learn from others, improve your business plan, not only to better find investors, but to increase your chances of success.

I hope to share with you either via my twitter @christoff3r anything related User Experience and on this blog anything that cross-relates it to Grow VC.

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