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Everything But The House (EBTH) is a full-service online personal property and estate sale provider that attempts to solve the issues plagued by traditional methods of downsizing and associated estate sales. “Traditional estate sales can be terribly inefficient and inconvenient,” said EBTH president and CEO Andy Nielsen. “They are typically held on one day at one specific time and buyers have to physically be present to purchase items. The amount of buyers pales in comparison to the exposure of being online....

Despite 2020 being a somewhat tumultuous year for the social media platform, with its very US existence at one point on the brink, it has still managed to beat its competitors to become the social networking app with the most time spent on it. Social media apps have had a pretty good 2020 all round, with the pandemic causing many of us to move our social lives online. While Facebook screen time has also increased, it has done so on a smaller scale, and yet both of these easily dwarf the platforms that follow – Instagram, Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp....

Want to grow a SaaS startup beyond the Valley? Here are 5 reasons you should – and also several warnings of what you’ll be up against. Pictured: Ambition Founders, Brian, Travis, Jared, & Wes (from left) Some quick background specs on Ambition. Our four co-founders spun Ambition out of two previously failed startups in February 2013. After launching with a team of 6 engineers, plus one graphic designer, they slowly, steadily began building an enterprise software that could best be described as “Fantasy Football for Sales,” at its initial stages....

However, 10 years after the software was first released, the kanban-based system is getting a major overhaul. New workflow views and features should make Trello more useful for a wider number of teams and businesses. Here’s everything you need to know about the new-look Trello. Tempted by Trello? See our full Trello Pricing guide for more Trello Views The new views Trello offers are probably the most important part of the redesign....

Those out of the company include CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal. With a volatile tech industry feeling the heat from a steady stream of layoffs, and rumors of an incoming 75% staff layoff, is this just the start of Musk’s trimming of the company payroll? The news is bound to shake up the social media landscape, with talk already of big changes incoming, and a potential return to the platform for some notorious public figures....

Founded by Mark Feinberg, Uruut prides itself on being the only crowdfunding platform built with nonprofits in mind. Their engine supports funding from multiple audiences, and their feature set is designed specifically to optimize the benefit for nonprofits. The Uruut team gets in touch with their roots in the community by thinking and working, from morning to night, about how to make the life of a nonprofit easier. From donor management to future tax reporting, Uruut strives to be the full featured crowdfunding solution for nonprofit use....

From outright bans to executive orders, Huawei has been on the receiving end of most of the negativity between these two great world powers. Admittedly, their devices present a unique problem for the US, as the lines between the Chinese government and Huawei management are quite blurry. Still, the dramatic sanctions put in place could have had some serious repercussions for the millions of users worldwide. Fortunately, they’ve got a little breathing room… for now....

You have to be real and upfront: Cheating on the credibility of the content or message of the video is perhaps the fastest way to spoil the efforts of your video marketing campaign. If consumers are able to sense that there’s something off in the message of your ad, they will soon lose the trust that they had on you. With fleeting trust your small chance of attracting and converting potential viewers disappears....

But the tech world might be jumping on the trend too soon. VR Is Still a Disconnect The VR headset is immersive for one sense only: sight. Now, while we all know that everyone has the five senses of sight, touch, taste, smell, and hearing, that’s a little reductive. There’s another sense: balance. It’s how you can tell that you’re starting to tip sideways when you balance on one foot with your eyes closed....

While music videos are accessible on YouTube, the Top 40 tend to be promoted over all else. Rockify’s clean, vertical engine operates similarly to Pandora and directs user traffic to musicians not among the Bieber – Minaj – Perry circles. Aside from helping users discover new music video content, Rockify offers independent bands and labels an opportunity for publicity. The current channels that bands and labels use limit their options....

Security issues abound when it comes to the Google. Compared to the more secure Apple App Store, the Play Store, for example, is riddled with problematic apps that could wipe your computer or steal your information. The Chrome Web Store is no different, occasionally housing nefarious extensions that can steal your personal information. In most cases, Google can sniff out these malicious apps and extensions before it’s too late, but sometimes they slip through the cracks, resulting in millions of downloads....

With 85 percent of parents allowing children to use technology in the home and kids under 9 years old averaging two hours of screen use per day, understanding the effects of technology on kids is more important than ever. While keeping an eye on a child at the playground is easy, monitoring online behavior and media intake is no simple feat, particularly when your child is more prone to understanding the intricacies of tech than you are....

While this created a much needed legitimacy, needs have changed and the folks who run coworking spaces have done an amazing job of rising to the challenge of meeting the new customer needs. If you haven’t looked into the coworking spaces that are local to you, please do so. You will be amazed at the communities being formed and the good that is being done. For startups in particular, these things are really exciting....

In fact, a little over one-in-four lower-income adults in the US are smartphone-only internet users. The future has been mobile for years, but now we have a closer look at the people for whom the future is nothing but mobile. Here’s what that ramped up mobile internet traffic means for the future of broadband internet, ads, content, and your website. The Studies First up was Bond Capital founder Mary Meeker, who debuted her annual and much anticipated state-of-the-Internet slide deck on Tuesday....

Snapchat’s Ad Incorporation Recently, news of the app’s latest ad announcement were released, with the biggest being that ads will now be incorporated between stories. Ads can also be expanded upon, with each ad being reviewed for quality and to protect users from viewing anything less than high-quality ads. But with a new emphasis on sponsored-created content, how will this affect the rest of the industry? Actually, the question is the other way around – this act is a deliberate means to adapt to the shifts in social media as a whole....

Royalty Free Image – No Link Required Icecream Apps PDF Converter Icecream Apps PDF converter, which you can download here, makes converting between PDF and other files easy and seamless. This free software allows you to convert other file formats, such as BMP, DOC, EPS, EPUB, and JPG. There are no page or file parameter limits and password protection is a supported feature. Additionally, if you just need to read a file in a format not supported by a program on your computer, PDF converter allows you to view it without converting it to another format....

According to this definition, a “startup” must be constantly growing – in some respect. But, when it comes to scaling your company, how do you know when exactly is the best time? Should you scale only for profitability? Or, can you scale whenever and just make sure that you’re keeping your current momentum? Is fast growth necessarily the best tactic for every startup, or is it sometimes better for a startup to chill down for a bit before taking making any major moves?...

Join us on this entrepreneurial CELEBRATION taking place at Startup Week Chase Basecamp, where you will meet industry leaders and hear from Tampa’s Hottest Showcasing Startups. But BEFORE the Tampa Mixer & Startup Showcase, we want you to vote for your ONE favorite startup! That’s right, we want to know which startup you think should represent the great city of Tampa Bay during Tech Cocktail’s Celebrate Conference in Downtown Las Vegas in October of 2015....

Funding and the Female Entrepreneur In a report by the Female Founders Fund, the exact numbers of female-led companies that are funded by VCs are published – and they aren’t good. Examining women-led startups in the Bay Area and New York City, the Female Founders Fund report looked at the trends of funding that these companies underwent. The report looked at more than 200 Bay Area startups that received Series A funding (those receiving between $3 million and $15 million led by a VC) last year....

The new offering comes through partnerships both with Hewlett-Packard, which produces the hardware tablet, and with Stripe, whose Terminal card reader is powered by Wix Payments. It’s a big move from Wix into a new field — and another sign of the increasingly porous line between online and offline shopping. Wix POS Wix Retail POS includes two components, a hardware kit preloaded with Wix’s POS software and the Stripe card reader....