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Tag Archives: Startups
Wanderful Media Raises Another $9 Million to Fuel Rapid Growth
We’ve been heads-down, busy working, and I am very pleased with the team’s accomplishments so far in 2013. Wanderful Media recently announced raising an additional $9 million from our existing investors, bringing our total funding to $36 million. This additional … Continue reading
Posted in FindnSave, Silicon Valley, Wanderful Media
Tagged Discovery shopping, funding, mobile, newspapers, Online advertising, Online Shopping, Retail, Startups, tablet, technology, Wanderful Media
The Dumb Things We Say in the Startup World
I recently co-authored an article, “The Dumb Things We Say in the Startup World” with Mark Menell, a former partner at Rustic Canyon and the past COO & CFO of ShopRunner. Having worked together on several ventures, Mark and I … Continue reading
Posted in Silicon Valley, Startups
Tagged advice, business, lessons, pandodaily, relationships, Startups, tips
Love the Ones You’re With. Why Startup Success Depends on Relationships | SiliconANGLE
I recently wrote this post with Doug Kilponen, COO at Wanderful Media. Having worked together on two different startups over the course of several years, it has become clear to us that loyalty is the secret ingredient for success. The media … Continue reading
Posted in MerchantCircle, Relationships, Silicon Valley, Startups, Wanderful Media
Tagged Blekko, business, CodeGear, Loyalty, merchantcircle, Odeo, Startups, Team, Topix, Twitter, Wanderful Media
Pinterest – Pinning Down Its Value For Retail | MediaPost
This is a great piece I wrote with Ron Adams, VP of National Sales at Wanderful Media. The Wanderful team is focused on connecting local retailers with consumers, and we see a huge opportunity for retailers to capitalize on areas … Continue reading
Posted in FindnSave, Silicon Valley, Startups, Wanderful Media
Tagged Discovery shopping, Online advertising, Online Shopping, Pinterest, Retail, Retailers, shopping, Startups, Wanderful Media
Retail is not dying… just transforming.
By Seema Sud and Ben T. Smith, IV VHS was going to be the cinema killer in the late ‘70s; and yet, 30 “DVR, Blue ray and big screen TV” years later, cinema is more popular than ever and the … Continue reading
Posted in FindnSave, Silicon Valley, Startups, Wanderful Media
Tagged Discovery shopping, mobile, newspapers, Online advertising, Online Shopping, Retail, Retailers, shopping, Startups, technology, Wanderful Media
Wanderful Media raises $5 million in new funding round
It’s been an incredible year for the retail and e-commerce industries, especially when it comes to discovery shopping. For Wanderful Media, 2012 will be defined as a year of building, and the theme for this year will be delivering. We’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Silicon Valley, Startups, Wanderful Media
Tagged Discovery shopping, funding, mobile, newspapers, Online advertising, Online Shopping, Retail, Startups, tablet, technology, Wanderful Media
2012: A Year of Building
If you think about it, every year takes on a character, or theme, of its own depending upon goals we’ve set, decisions we’ve made and unplanned events that take place along the way. 2011 was driven by a few great … Continue reading
The newsonomics of Amazon vs. Main Street » Nieman Journalism Lab
A great piece on the importance of retail advertsing to the newspaper business and the indirect fight between Amazon and the papers happening now. “Classifieds has decimated by interactive databases. National has migrated strongly digital. Retail, which made up of … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, FindnSave, GSD, Silicon Valley, Wanderful Media
Tagged advertising, Ben T Smith IV, Find n Save, marketing, Newspaper, newspapers, Publishers, Startups, Wanderful Media
The Newspaper Industry and Digital Ads
Newspapers are probably never completely going away. In fact, they are never going away. Newspapers have traditionally supported themselves through advertising. Advertisers pay newspapers to publish their ads, which gives the papers the money they need to publish the paper, … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Deals, Newspapers
Tagged advertising, Ben T Smith IV, investment, newspapers, ShopCo, social-media, Startups
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Building a Shopping Solution
I have been involved in ShopCo Holdings just about two months now as the Chief Executive Officer. I figured it is about time I start sharing a bit about it. ShopCo Holdings is a company backed by 12 large US Media companies … Continue reading
Posted in Deals, FindnSave, GSD, Silicon Valley, Wanderful Media
Tagged A. H. Belo, Ben T Smith IV, business, Find n Save, GSD, investment, Lee Enterprises, local, McClatchy Company, MediaNews Group, Startups, Wanderful Media, web entreprenuer