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Re: Top 10 tips for pharmacy bookkeeping

EricEdelstein — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 09:34:30 -0000

What about tools to automate?

Re: Docady: zrób porządek z dokumentami

EricEdelstein — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 05:50:48 -0000

Why an April Fools Joke?

Re: The Angel VC: What does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2016?

EricEdelstein — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 05:49:34 -0000

Great slide. Has this changed at all going into 2017?

Re: What Is Viral Coefficient And Why You Need It To Make Your App Go Viral

EricEdelstein — Fri, 12 May 2017 03:28:32 -0000

Do you think all apps and software can have a co-efficiency greater than 1 if the strategy is thought through enough? We've got an app, Dokka, that lets you use AI to take all your gmail documents and paperbased documents and have them instantly sorted into a "smart dropbox". Would virality work on a system like this?

Re: Docady: zrób porządek z dokumentami

EricEdelstein — Mon, 08 May 2017 06:55:43 -0000

For everyone upset that Docady shut down, Dokka (http://www.dokka.me) has now launched. Currently only on Google Play, you can register with your gmail account, and get your gmail documents sorted in minutes. One of our users had 18,000 documents in their gmail, and had no idea how to sort them. Now he uses Dokka a few times a day when he wants to find specific documents.

Re: Go to Market Tactics

EricEdelstein — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 03:40:59 -0000

This is one of the best sales & marketing video's I've ever seen! Thank you

Re: Why Lean Canvas vs Business Model Canvas?

EricEdelstein — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 05:27:04 -0000

I'm interested to hear Ash's (and others) views on this?

So If i'm understanding the thinking in "Venture_Accel's" comment above, the Lean Canvas is best suited within the validation stage, (and used as an ongoing canvas) and the business model canvas is best suited when pitching to investors?

Re: Daddy’s Deals site boasts 400k subscribers, offers website space to advertisers

EricEdelstein — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 01:00:32 -0000

hello everyone, i'm with DaddysDeals - we're excited about these new offerings so if anyone has questions, comments etc I'm looking forward to discussing...

Re: African tech start-ups dream of Silicon Savannah

EricEdelstein — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:14:10 -0000

Fantastic that Tech startup's in SA are really starting to gain momentum. We're looking to actively support the ecosystem by supporting the entrepreneurs and getting them the funding they need. One of our initiatives is to hold free monthly "intimate" breakfasts for 15 founders / CEO's of tech startup's to network with one another, and get motivated / inspired / words of wisdom from an experienced tech entrepreneur - these #mysteryGuest speakers only get revealed at the breakfasts. The next one is taking place in Cape Town on the 4th July - apply for a chance to be included at www.EntrepreneurTraction.com

Re: PublicBeta Raises $100k

EricEdelstein — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:06:43 -0000

Awesome blog post dude. Best of success & FUN with the new venture. Let me know if I can help in anyway! Best E

Re: Blogger Debate on Tuesday 17 July

EricEdelstein — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:03:49 -0000

What was the takeaway points from the debate?

Re: 30 brilliant African tech startups

EricEdelstein — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:47:05 -0000

from one EE to another EE - CONGRATS!!!!!!

Re: 30 brilliant African tech startups

EricEdelstein — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:45:33 -0000

keen to hear your thoughts on our startup - www.evly.com - we believe what we're doing is cutting edge

Re: With All Else Failing, Starbucks Tries Social Media

EricEdelstein — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:40:25 -0000

We loved what Starbucks was doing so much, we decided to let others do it as well – we created an app for Facebook fan page owners to be able to get “ideas” from their fans.

Very similar to the way the Starbucks site works – people suggest ideas, they vote, and the organisation shows which ideas they implemented and which ideas inspired the change.

We’ve created a free version as well, with a wizard – http://www.evly.com/product... (and click on “next steps” and you can install on any Facebook fan page you have admin rights to).

I’m very keen to hear what any of you think of it? (just leave a msg on the evly Facebook fan page, and i’ll get back to you)

Best
Eric

Re: The Top 10 Best Social Media Marketing Campaigns Of All Time

EricEdelstein — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:24:32 -0000

We loved what Starbucks was doing so much, we decided to let others do it as well – we created an app for Facebook fan page owners to be able to get “ideas” from their fans.

Very similar to the way the Starbucks site works – people suggest ideas, they vote, and the organisation shows which ideas they implemented and which ideas inspired the change.

We’ve created a free version as well, with a wizard – http://www.evly.com/product... (and click on “next steps” and you can install on any Facebook fan page you have admin rights to).

I’m very keen to hear what any of you think of it?

Best
Eric

Re: Starbucks, Social Media and Success

EricEdelstein — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:14:11 -0000

We loved what Starbucks was doing so much, we decided to let others do it as well – we created an app for Facebook fan page owners to be able to get “ideas” from their fans.

Very similar to the way the Starbucks site works – people suggest ideas, they vote, and the organisation shows which ideas they implemented and which ideas inspired the change.

We’ve created a free version as well, with a wizard – http://www.evly.com/product... (and click on “next steps” and you can install on any Facebook fan page you have admin rights to).

I’m very keen to hear what any of you think of it? (just leave a msg on the evly Facebook fan page, and i’ll get back to you)

Best
Eric

Re: Where Customers Submit, Discuss, and Vote, Ideas: “My Starbucks Ideas”

EricEdelstein — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:16:19 -0000

We loved what Starbucks was doing so much, we decided to let others do it as well - we created an app for Facebook fan page owners to be able to get "ideas" from their fans.

Very similar to the way the Starbucks site works - people suggest ideas, they vote, and the organisation shows which ideas they implemented and which ideas inspired the change.

We've created a free version as well, with a wizard - http://www.evly.com/product... - We're very keen to get feedback on what you like and don't like on our app, so if you decide to try it out, please post some feedback on the evly fanpage on Facebook.

Re: Crowd Funding: Getting Money from the Masses

EricEdelstein — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 19:23:49 -0000

evly.com is a South African internet startup, that combines crowdsourcing & crowdfunding - we have already held our first crowdfunding challenge after we were approached with an interesting cause. Our crowdfunding templates will be released later this year. If you have an interesting crowdfunding challenge, please get in touch with us, and we'll consider featuring you as a "case study" before we allow others to start using our crowdfunding module.

Re: How I Screwed Yasser Arafat out of $2mm

EricEdelstein — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 04:01:24 -0000

I've owned a coffee shop before, and it's just as tough as a bookstore. I suggest we both stick to tech ventures! :)

Re: Social media governments: Iceland, Nigeria, Rwanda & South Africa

EricEdelstein — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:55:28 -0000

What a fantastic article. This is the reason we have spent the last year of our lives building the evly platform. To allow a place where real problem solving can take place. I think that it can be done on facebook and twitter, & other Q&A sites, but we've built a platform (which is in private beta testing - without a code you can only use our Q&A builder at the moment), which allows full crowdsourcing / market research, and contests to be setup and managed very quickly and easily.

Our vision is to be the 4th cornerstone of social media. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, evly.

Why is that possible? Because the world is moving towards encouraging
problem solvers to find and interact with the right solution seekers
(see 99designs, Springleap, Threadless, Innocentive, Facebook &
twitter contests, etc.)

But, there is no central location for all of that problem solving
activity. And it makes sense to have one because all people will likely
engage with multiple companies.

If anyone is keen to hear more, or work with us as a case study, please get in touch with me (send me a facebook message).

Re: The Samwer Brothers make a killing after selling their Facebook stake from 2008

EricEdelstein — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:28:12 -0000

@Charl guessing you're on the "fan" side ;)

Re: Yola Inks Distribution Deals with HP and AOL for its Easy-to-Build Sites

EricEdelstein — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:43:40 -0000

ahhhh. the Halifax cruise!! that brings back memories! think we need another one Vinster!

Re: Q: Why Did Twitter Acqhire Fluther? A: “Search Is Mature,” Social Q&A Is Still “Wide Open”

EricEdelstein — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:50:25 -0000

we've just launched our beta at evly.com (http://www.evly.com) which includes Social Q&A. It's different from quora in a number of ways. Please take a look through and give me feedback. Perhaps it's arrogant to say this, but perhaps "Social Q&A" isn't still as "wide open" as you've written...

Re: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/217744

EricEdelstein — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 03:27:29 -0000

Great article on crowdsourcing and fantastic to see it's starting to get mainstream attention from websites such as entrepreneur.

We've launched our beta version of evly (http://www.evly.com) to really take crowdsourcing mainstream. The objective is to let anyone launch a crowdsourcing website, using a wizard and site builder - quickly and easily. It's early days still for evly, but the sites that have already been built, are giving us amazing feedback.

2011 is going to be the year of Crowdsourcing

Re: Ning Everywhere Debuts With Third-Party Extensions, Mobile Apps And More

EricEdelstein — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:27:04 -0000

1. website builders like yola

then along came...

2. website builder ning to allow a social network to be built

now...

3. a crowdsourcing social network platform including a wizard and website builder - evly.com - to allow a crowdsourcing social network to be built

if you've got questions about what we're up to, please get in touch.