1. The document describes the journey of a company that pivoted from a failing business focused on the gay community to focusing on design and becoming the largest global design marketplace.
2. Key events included raising $8 million in Series A funding in March 2011, reaching 1 million members in just 5 months after launching in June 2011, and acquiring another company and launching in Germany in early 2012.
3. By the end of 2012, the company was on a pace to exceed $100 million in revenue and had sold over 1 million products in its first 9 months.
Connect the Awesomeness: Designing for Serendipity and Trust in Innovation Ec...Sandbox ATL
AI and robots haven't taken over the world just yet. It's people who create the breakthroughs. More so, it's people with strong networks who create the biggest breakthroughs. Unfortunately, most people stay inside their bubbles. In this high energy presentation, you'll learn how to leverage human nature through a mix of events, media content, and collaborative space to help your company discover its next big breakthrough. Wait, there's more! You'll also discover secret tricks for engineering serendipity and connecting to adjacent possibilities.
In July 2015, LinkedIn reached an important milestone: more than 25 million members had added the Volunteer and Causes section to their LinkedIn profiles. This is a reflection of the extraordinary appetite of professionals – partly driven by the Millennial generation - to use their skills to impact the world. In this session at the 2015 VolunteerMatch Summit, Meg Garlinghouse, Head of LinkedIn for Good, shared trends and insights on and related to skills based volunteering.
Plenty of great leaders that have walked on this earth have used stories to drive action and make change. What will you do with this storytelling power?
San Diego Startup Week 2017 - Veteran EntrepreneurshipJaûne Odombrown ☑
Once a year, Startup Week brings together entrepreneurs to share progress, exchange resources, and celebrate the thriving innovation community. We’re putting all our efforts into bringing together the community to showcase exciting local innovation, share resources and knowledge, and strengthen connections. I was a guest speaker at the The Impact Track which focused on entrepreneurs with philanthropic missions, educating around social enterprise business models and inclusion-focused programs. I focused my presentation around building a better Entrepreneur Ecosystem for Military Veteran Entrepreneurs.
Connect the Awesomeness: Designing for Serendipity and Trust in Innovation Ec...Sandbox ATL
AI and robots haven't taken over the world just yet. It's people who create the breakthroughs. More so, it's people with strong networks who create the biggest breakthroughs. Unfortunately, most people stay inside their bubbles. In this high energy presentation, you'll learn how to leverage human nature through a mix of events, media content, and collaborative space to help your company discover its next big breakthrough. Wait, there's more! You'll also discover secret tricks for engineering serendipity and connecting to adjacent possibilities.
In July 2015, LinkedIn reached an important milestone: more than 25 million members had added the Volunteer and Causes section to their LinkedIn profiles. This is a reflection of the extraordinary appetite of professionals – partly driven by the Millennial generation - to use their skills to impact the world. In this session at the 2015 VolunteerMatch Summit, Meg Garlinghouse, Head of LinkedIn for Good, shared trends and insights on and related to skills based volunteering.
Plenty of great leaders that have walked on this earth have used stories to drive action and make change. What will you do with this storytelling power?
San Diego Startup Week 2017 - Veteran EntrepreneurshipJaûne Odombrown ☑
Once a year, Startup Week brings together entrepreneurs to share progress, exchange resources, and celebrate the thriving innovation community. We’re putting all our efforts into bringing together the community to showcase exciting local innovation, share resources and knowledge, and strengthen connections. I was a guest speaker at the The Impact Track which focused on entrepreneurs with philanthropic missions, educating around social enterprise business models and inclusion-focused programs. I focused my presentation around building a better Entrepreneur Ecosystem for Military Veteran Entrepreneurs.
The Best Place to Work - Jonas Altman - 9punto59punto5
The future of work is here. The new principle for organizing ourselves is premised on fluidity; the ability to move with dexterity amidst constant change. The best places to work continuously nourishing their people and cultivate dynamic rhythms to get things done. This talk explores the changing nature of work culture and its reinvention in real-time.
The game has changed. Cold calling, marketing collateral, template proposals, two-hour business lunches, deals on the golf course and the selling system you subscribed to for 10 years?
Dead end.
A new era has emerged where more sophisticated and demanding buyer’s carefully guard their time and approach any buying decision with caution, scrutiny and rigor that simply didn’t exist a few years prior. And earning a partnership through a competitive decision cycle with today’s Buyer requires advanced Sales PROCESS, SKILL and STRATEGY.
This presentation provides 10 principles to ignite sales success, sell like a Rock Star and build a client community of brand evangelists in the knowledge economy.
What if you could turn virtually every cold call into a “warm call”? Sales Nirvana? It is very possible today with a shift in strategy and through the adoption of new tools and technology.
The blend of a traditional networking philosophy and technology integration can transform the opportunity to develop higher levels of awareness around your solution, increase quality lead generation and elevate evangelism from your brand ambassadors. Social Selling is all about being expertly informed and demonstrating value early in the sales cycle to achieve a competitive advantage. While you cannot automate relationships you can increase quality introductions and accelerate knowledge transfer by leveraging a Social Selling strategy.
Digital innovation: commercialising programmes to strengthen and scaleCharityComms
Donna White, senior head of digital marketing and
Vicky Yorke, innovation project lead, The Prince's Trust
Visit the CharityComms website to view slides from past events, see what events we have coming up and to check out what else we do: www.charitycomms.org.uk
Creative Lab: a framework for great ideasCharityComms
Chris Dessent, managing director and Faith Bulleyment, business director, Creative Concern
Visit the CharityComms website to view slides from past events, see what events we have coming up and to check out what else we do: www.charitycomms.org.uk
How do you make change in society? Who are some Jewish role models for social justice? What are some lessons to know before you start making societal change?
This presentation, by USY's 2015 Danny Siegel Changemaker-in-Residence Matt Fieldman, is all about how to become a changemaker and make our world a better place.
Learning & Finding Inspiration From Today’s Leading PhilanthropistsJeff Greenstein
The philanthropic model at its heart is and has always been simple: one person giving aid, hope, money and/or time to a person, an initiative or a foundation. Famous philanthropists can inspire us to give creatively and impactfully, but in the end, it’s up to every one of us, billionaire or not, to personalize how we choose to give. We can learn and be moved by them regardless of our financial capacity. In doing so, we can all contribute to making the world a better place.
Uplift your Career with Technology and Nurture your Network with Connection ...Milena Milicevic
During this masterclass you will learn about top tech trends to harness and implement in your business. You will hear and see where opportunities exist for you and which trends are a passing fad. You will be able to truly harness the potential of digital transformation.
You will be able to create a playbook for your business success so that you create more value, serve more customers, make more profit and organize your time better with technology.
The workshop is organized as part of Momentum Strategies' New Year's Eve seminar called Wake up and Connect.
Also, during Milena’s masterclass we will discuss how technology changes human interaction and relationships. We will build strategies that help us remain conscious entrepreneurs that can detox from technology and invest our time wisely.
We will also discuss how people working with technology should use it with their children and young relatives (Generation Z) so as to raise the generation that is not addicted to tech, but can use devices for learning, connection and evoking curiosity.
The Best Place to Work - Jonas Altman - 9punto59punto5
The future of work is here. The new principle for organizing ourselves is premised on fluidity; the ability to move with dexterity amidst constant change. The best places to work continuously nourishing their people and cultivate dynamic rhythms to get things done. This talk explores the changing nature of work culture and its reinvention in real-time.
The game has changed. Cold calling, marketing collateral, template proposals, two-hour business lunches, deals on the golf course and the selling system you subscribed to for 10 years?
Dead end.
A new era has emerged where more sophisticated and demanding buyer’s carefully guard their time and approach any buying decision with caution, scrutiny and rigor that simply didn’t exist a few years prior. And earning a partnership through a competitive decision cycle with today’s Buyer requires advanced Sales PROCESS, SKILL and STRATEGY.
This presentation provides 10 principles to ignite sales success, sell like a Rock Star and build a client community of brand evangelists in the knowledge economy.
What if you could turn virtually every cold call into a “warm call”? Sales Nirvana? It is very possible today with a shift in strategy and through the adoption of new tools and technology.
The blend of a traditional networking philosophy and technology integration can transform the opportunity to develop higher levels of awareness around your solution, increase quality lead generation and elevate evangelism from your brand ambassadors. Social Selling is all about being expertly informed and demonstrating value early in the sales cycle to achieve a competitive advantage. While you cannot automate relationships you can increase quality introductions and accelerate knowledge transfer by leveraging a Social Selling strategy.
Digital innovation: commercialising programmes to strengthen and scaleCharityComms
Donna White, senior head of digital marketing and
Vicky Yorke, innovation project lead, The Prince's Trust
Visit the CharityComms website to view slides from past events, see what events we have coming up and to check out what else we do: www.charitycomms.org.uk
Creative Lab: a framework for great ideasCharityComms
Chris Dessent, managing director and Faith Bulleyment, business director, Creative Concern
Visit the CharityComms website to view slides from past events, see what events we have coming up and to check out what else we do: www.charitycomms.org.uk
How do you make change in society? Who are some Jewish role models for social justice? What are some lessons to know before you start making societal change?
This presentation, by USY's 2015 Danny Siegel Changemaker-in-Residence Matt Fieldman, is all about how to become a changemaker and make our world a better place.
Learning & Finding Inspiration From Today’s Leading PhilanthropistsJeff Greenstein
The philanthropic model at its heart is and has always been simple: one person giving aid, hope, money and/or time to a person, an initiative or a foundation. Famous philanthropists can inspire us to give creatively and impactfully, but in the end, it’s up to every one of us, billionaire or not, to personalize how we choose to give. We can learn and be moved by them regardless of our financial capacity. In doing so, we can all contribute to making the world a better place.
Uplift your Career with Technology and Nurture your Network with Connection ...Milena Milicevic
During this masterclass you will learn about top tech trends to harness and implement in your business. You will hear and see where opportunities exist for you and which trends are a passing fad. You will be able to truly harness the potential of digital transformation.
You will be able to create a playbook for your business success so that you create more value, serve more customers, make more profit and organize your time better with technology.
The workshop is organized as part of Momentum Strategies' New Year's Eve seminar called Wake up and Connect.
Also, during Milena’s masterclass we will discuss how technology changes human interaction and relationships. We will build strategies that help us remain conscious entrepreneurs that can detox from technology and invest our time wisely.
We will also discuss how people working with technology should use it with their children and young relatives (Generation Z) so as to raise the generation that is not addicted to tech, but can use devices for learning, connection and evoking curiosity.
Social Media for Real Estate Agents by Jason MarkJason Mark
I (@jsnmrk) presented to a group of South African Real Estate Agents on how to effectively use social media platforms to their advantage. I shared how they could use these platforms for lead generation, as well as maintaining current client relationships.
This particular presentation focused more so on Facebook, but other platforms were touched on as well.
This is my actual presentation, and so some slides may not have much context, as that was delivered by me speaking.
If you would like to work with me, or have any questions please get in touch via http://www.floeo.com
Enjoy and cheers,
Jason (@jsnmrk)
The Social Startup: New strategies for a new worldJD Lasica
JD Lasica's talk about how to create a Social Startup. Tips on how to socialize your startup, including how to hone your core message or value proposition, how to build a community or supporters and why it's important to tell your own story.
EO Toronto: Social media - fad or fantasticClearFit
EO Toronto: Social media - fad or fantastic
Is it a time waster? Where do I start? Can it help me sell more or save me money? Join us for a series of engaging stories and informative techniques to help you navigate the world of social media.
The rules of promoting your business have changed – Big 5 Social Media Networks Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ & BBM Marketing are here to stay helping you utilizing Social Media for Business.
The rules of promoting your business have changed – Big 5 Social Media Networks Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ & BBM Marketing are here to stay helping you utilizing Social Media for Business.
The New Rules of Marketing: Paid, Owned and EarnedGood Grains
Zack Swire of SWIRE & eGood, and Chelsea Segal of Targetwise share their stories and insights (+ learnings from influential voices that inspire them) on 'The New Rules of Marketing: Paid, Owned and Earned'. Understanding your story, your why and your purpose must come first. Then, you can work to be more effective at amplifying your marketing message with the right media mix, maximizing the success of media dollars, and cutting through the clutter to drive your business.
We’re living in a new media marketing era. It’s noisy and it’s crowded. People’s email inboxes are overflowing. Web ads and pop-ups and prestitials are in your face. Not to mention the social media overload.
Buyers are tuning out. Their eyes have glazed over. Bombarding your prospects with an unending stream of sales messages is no longer the answer.
So how do you stand out from the crowd? How do you have your buyers and prospects look forward to hearing from you? How do you build awareness … loyalty … and your customer base?
The answer is content marketing.
More and more marketers and content creators from around the world are discovering that an effective content strategy is essential to staying ahead of the curve.
At the Content Marketing Master Class, you’ll have a chance to learn from and interact with many of today’s top content strategists who have had a hand in shaping the industry into what it is today.
What is New Media vs. Old Media? This presentation gives you the basic understanding of why and how brands are using new media to reach the influencers in their segment.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
4. THE PIVOT
We don’t want to spend one more dollar, let alone $1M doing something we don’t have
confidence in.
FEB 24
We’ve been iterating on product. Now we are pivoting to a business model.
We’ve been doing too much. We will stop doing a lot of things, to focus on one thing.
The Pivot
Convinced that iterating away in the gay space isn’t going to get us to a $100M
opportunity. Meanwhile, we we can see a $100M opportunity in front of us elsewhere.
3 criteria: (1) Passionate about it, (2) Can be the best in the world at it (3) Can be
$100M+ business,
The Pivot: From gay places+deals to doing one thing we can be the best at: DESIGN.
5.
6. Big Vision:
The Global
Brand
Synonymous
with Design
Amazon.com
for Design
8. MAR 19
Begin Viral
Mechanics
Holy Crap!
50,000 people
join in first 30
days
9. April 15
Pre-Sales Social
Features Launch:
The Fab.com
Inspiration Wall.
Social Mood Board.
Give users
Something to do
(and share!) while
waiting for our sales
to launch.
10. Pre-Launch Viral + Social = Rapid Growing Userbase
June 8
165,000
Pre-Launch
Subscribers
500,000+ people
invited by friends
Gained 165,438 opt-in subscribers in 80 days leading up to
june 1, 2011)
50% viral from invite links
30% Inspiration Wall users
Average subscriber has invited 3 friends, 1 of whom joined
330,000 additional emails of friends yet to convert
11. June 9
Launch Day!
Featuring Milton
Glaser
Ashton Kutcher
Invests
15 NY employees
14. Photo: Daniel Goodman / Business Insider
September
16 new sales events
per day, 2000+ new
SKU’s per day
55 Team Members Worldide
15. Oct. 11
Fab goes
mobile:
iPhone, iPad, &
Android
16. Nov. 14
1 Million
Members in just
5 months since
launch.
17. We want people to LOVE Fab.
Dec. 2
Building A
Service lasts forever.
Different Kind
of Company
...we spend most of our time celebrating our challenges...we focus
more on why we suck than on why we’re doing well.
22. 9 Months of Fab
1 Million Products Sold
111,111 Products Sold Per Month
3,703 Products Sold Per Day
154 Products Sold Per Hour
2.6 Products Sold Per Minute
