| Date | Title | Description |
| 23.10.2015 | After selling BigDoor, resilient startup leader Keith Smith is back at it with NYC company | Payability CEO Keith Smith in the company’s New York City office. (GeekWire Photo, Jacob Demmitt)
NEW YORK — Serial entrepreneur Keith Smith knows all too well that building a superior product isn’t the same as building a lasting business.
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| 09.01.2015 | Seattle Roundup: Cray, Blue Box, BigDoor, Late ’14 Deals, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Happy 2015! There’s lots to catch up on in Northwest tech news after a long holiday break, including the prospect of better U.S. weather forecasts powered by Cray supercompute... |
| 08.01.2015 | Seattle startup BigDoor sold to investment firm, CEO Keith Smith departing | Keith Smith
BigDoor, a Seattle startup that was an early leader in technologies to help large brands implement loyalty programs, has been sold to an undisclosed investment firm.
The deal closed last month, but it was just disclosed this wee... |
| 08.05.2014 | Revealed: The winners of the 2014 GeekWire Awards | Rory Rawlings, co-founder and chief tax automation officer of Avalara, celebrates on stage after winning the award for Next Tech Titan.
The best and brightest of Seattle’s startup scene filled the EMP Thursday evening, as we welcomed more t... |
| 08.01.2014 | 10 Online Marketing Predictions to Inform Your Strategy in 2014 | January 8, 2014 6 min read
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Business marketing last year was like a roller coaster ride. We saw new platforms, new channels, new roles and new tools pop up all over the place. It... |
| 21.11.2013 | BigDoor opens new chapter, moves beyond gamification to focus on loyalty programs | BigDoor, the Seattle startup led by entrepreneur Keith Smith, is moving beyond its gamification technologies with a deeper focus on brand loyalty programs.
Smith announced the changes in a blog post today, pointing out the natural evolution... |
| 21.02.2013 | Why entrepreneurs need to share moments of weakness with their startup peers | Panelists at last night’s discussion on managing family life and startups.
“Oh excuse me, it’s Amy,” said Brad Feld as he answered his wife’s phone call, while sitting on stage doing a live panel to a packed out room at the Hard Rock Cafe i... |
| 14.09.2012 | Foundry Group adds $225M to its venture capital pool | The Foundry Group partners performing “I’m a VC”
Foundry Group, the Colorado venture capital firm that’s backed Seattle area upstarts such as Big Door, SEOMoz and Cheezburger as well as Portland-based Cloudability, announced today the closi... |
| 24.08.2012 | Seattle startup BigDoor powering NFL.com rewards | With the NFL regular season fast approaching, the football league this week announced its first-ever NFL Fan Rewards. The program gives regular users of NFL.com virtual coins in exchange for reading articles, commenting and taking part in o... |
| 30.05.2012 | BigDoor rival Badgeville scores $25M for ‘gamification’ platform | Fast-growing Badgeville has reeled in $25 million in fresh funding, money that the 20-month-old Menlo Park, California startup will use to expand its gamification platform. Badgeville, which competes against Seattle’s BigDoor, said that its... |
| 09.05.2012 | Amazon Takes Over: How a Flood of People Could Remake Seattle | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In Seattle, the future is pretty easy to find. Just head to Amazon.com’s neighborhood.
Just a few years ago, this corner of the city was dominated by warehouses and cheap rent... |
| 08.05.2012 | The Founders’ Promise: Put your money where your angst is | Will you take the Founders' Promise? Photo via Bigstock
“There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized al... |
| 03.04.2012 | BigDoor raises $5M for gamification platform | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
BigDoor, a white label gamification platform maker, has raised $5 million in new funding from the Foundry Group. The platform allows no... |
| 03.04.2012 | Gamification Platform BigDoor Raises $5 Million From Foundry Group | White label gamification platform BigDoor has raised $5 million in new funding led by existing investor Foundry Group, bringing BigDoor’s total funding to $13 million.
BigDoor’s gamification platform essentially allows online publishers to ... |
| 03.04.2012 | BigDoor closes $5M, touts new ‘gamified rewards program’ | BigDoor execs Keith Smith, Matt Shobe and Jeff Malek at the company's offices in the South Lake Union neighborhood
There’s so much content clutter on the Web these days that it can be tough for online publishers to keep their readers or vie... |
| 16.03.2012 | Concur’s Steve Singh, DocuSign, Founder’s Co-op Among WTIA Winners | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Even South by Southwest hangovers and the start of March Madness couldn’t keep people away from the Washington Technology Industry Association‘s annual Industry Achievement Aw... |
| 12.02.2012 | No Longer An Awkward Teenager? Gamification Grows Up | Editor’s note: Guest contributor Joseph Puopolo is an entrepreneur and startup enthusiast, who blogs on a variety of topics including green initiatives, technology and marketing.
Over the last year, you may have noticed that a once-niche tr... |
| 09.10.2011 | What are your golden metrics? | Finding key metrics is like panning for gold (DeltaMike photo)
Like most Internet-centric companies, we find ourselves engaged in an ongoing (never ending?) search for the core metrics that will truly matter for our business. In today’s dig... |
| 08.09.2011 | Seattle gamification startup BigDoor buys OneTrueFan | BigDoor's Keith Smith, Matt Shobe and Jeff Malek at the company's new offices in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood
BigDoor believes it has the keys to success to increase engagement on Web sites. And today the fast-growing Seattle sta... |
| 07.09.2011 | BigDoor acquires OneTrueFan for gamification expansion (exclusive) | The gamification business, which helps web sites get more traction by making them more game-like, has sprouted startups like weeds in the past couple of years. Now it is seeing its first acquisition deal.
BigDoor is announcing today that it... |
| 07.09.2011 | BigDoor acquires OneTrueFan for gamification expansion (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The gamification business, which helps web sites get more traction by making them more game-like, has sprouted startups like weeds in t... |
| 08.08.2011 | Gamification Startup BigDoor Media Levels Up to Bigger Digs, Keeps on Hiring | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Can a company that hands out digital coins make real money? That’s the idea at Seattle’s BigDoor Media, a growing startup playing in the burgeoning field of gamification. In c... |
| 19.05.2011 | Rewind: Keith Smith, BigDoor CEO, on the economics and future of gamification | Keith Smith in the KIRO studios (Erynn Rose photo)
Our guest this past week on the GeekWire Podcast was Keith Smith, CEO of BigDoor, a Seattle company bringing the principles of video games to the world of online publishing, with badges, le... |
| 10.05.2011 | BigDoor ‘gamifies’ America’s pastime, strikes deal with MLB | Red Sox player badges
Baseball already has pennants. Now, it is getting badges too — at least of the digital variety. Seattle startup BigDoor and MLB Advanced Media — the interactive arm of Major League Baseball — today announced that visit... |
| 10.05.2011 | BigDoor Media Adds Power-Hitter Client: Seattle Startup Brings Gamification to Major League Baseball’s Website | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The trend of gamification—adding virtual rewards and other game mechanics to all kinds of customer relationships—is barely a year old. But Seattle startup BigDoor Media is sho... |
| 25.04.2011 | Stop Blaming the Customers – the Fault is on Amazon Web Services | Almost as galling as the Amazon Web Services outage itself is a the litany of blog posts, such as this one and this one, that place the blame not on AWS for having a long failure and not communicating with its customers about it, but on AWS... |
| 22.04.2011 | Amazon Web Services Starting to Come Back Online but Problems Persist & Questions Arise | Amazon Web Services disruption issues are now into their second day as engineers work to get the last of the availability zones restored. Meanwhile, the customers affected spent the day talking with their customers while others such as Twil... |
| 21.04.2011 | Amazon.com’s real problem isn’t the outage, it’s the communication | Keith Smith
Guest Commentary: Like many companies running on Amazon’s Web Services, BigDoor has been affected by the AWS outage today. And like most startups, we are braced for bad stuff to happen, and we do our best to learn from the painf... |
| 11.04.2011 | CPMs or CPCs? Nope, BigDoor has its eye on the CPQ: Cost Per Quest | You may have heard of CPMs or CPCs. But Seattle startup BigDoor wants to start a movement around another online advertising acronym. It’s called the CPQ or Cost Per Quest. Say what? Keith Smith, who founded BigDoor in 2009, unveiled the pro... |
| 11.04.2011 | BigDoor: New Game Platform for Ads | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle startup BigDoor is unveiling a new website advertising platform centered around game behavior, hoping to tie a better profit engine to one of the tech world’s current ... |
| 15.03.2011 | Feedburner co-founder joins BigDoor | Feedburner co-founder Matt Shobe has joined BigDoor, a Seattle startup that helps online publishers engage with readers and viewers by establishing leaderboards, badges and other game-oriented services. Shobe, who most recently worked as a ... |
| 22.11.2010 | Badgeville raises $2.5M to spread game mechanics across the web | Badgeville, a white-label platform for publishers looking to integrate social rewards into their websites, announced today that it has raised a $2.5 million round.
The startup offers widgets and APIs to publishers looking to add game mechan... |
| 14.10.2010 | Add Game Mechanics To Your Site In Five Minutes With BigDoor | White label game mechanics startup BigDoor Media today announces the launch of new its new “MiniBar” features, which consist of Facebook compatible widgets that allow website owners to incorporate game mechanics and loyalty programs easily ... |
| 31.08.2010 | BigDoor Rolls Out Badge-O-Matic Tool | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based web “gamification” company BigDoor Media rolled out a new tool today called Badge-O-Matic to help online publishers integrate game-like mechanics into websites. ... |
| 25.08.2010 | Website builder DevHub gets users hooked by “gamifying” its service | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Gamification is a hot buzz word these days. It means taking the mechanics of games and what makes them fun and then applying them to no... |
| 27.07.2010 | Trusted Opinion "gamifies" its restaurant recommendation community | Social recommendation firm Trusted Opinion is adding a social game platform to get its community of a million restaurant fans to engage in the network and spend more money.
In doing so, the company is taking part in a trend dubbed “gamifica... |
| 27.07.2010 | Trusted Opinion "gamifies" its restaurant recommendation community | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Social recommendation firm Trusted Opinion is add... |
| 14.07.2010 | Gamify This: Seattle Web Experts Give Pointers on Using Game Mechanics for Good and Evil | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
They are the holy triumvirate of the “gamification” movement here in Seattle. OK, I just made that up. But if you want to learn how to use video-game mechanics to enhance your... |
| 11.06.2010 | Funding roundup - week ending 06/11/10 | 2010 Q1 venture funding dips slightly from previous quarter, but there's still money out there
As might have been expected, venture funding in the first quarter of 2010 fell 2% from the quarter just before, according to data from VC databas... |
| 11.06.2010 | Mindbloom, With New Social Game, Finds Niche in Health, Wellness, and “Gamification” of the Web | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
What sits at the intersection of health and wellness websites, virtual currencies, and “gamification” of the Web? Right now, a Seattle startup called Mindbloom.
This is an out... |
| 09.06.2010 | BigDoor Raises $5M in Second Funding Round | BigDoor, a Seattle, WA-based startup that provides a platform to power game-like mechanics for website publishers, has raised $5m in its second round of funding.
The investment was led by venture capital firm Foundry Group.
In conjunction w... |
| 08.06.2010 | BigDoor Raises $5M Led by Foundry Group, Looks to Bring Game Mechanics to All the Web | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Score another one for the “gamification” of websites. Seattle-based BigDoor Media said today it has raised $5 million in Series B funding led by new investor Foundry Group, th... |
| 08.06.2010 | BigDoor's First BigRound: $5 Million From Foundry Group | Seattle startup BigDoor Media has raised $5 million in venture funding as it’s readying the launch of its automated platform that allows website and mobile application publishers to add game-like mechanics and loyalty programs to their site... |
| 14.10.2009 | BigDoor Opens Doors To Public Beta Of Website And iPhone App Monetization Tool | After a short period of near-mandatory private beta, Bellevue, WA-based BigDoor Media is today introducing the public beta of its website and mobile app monetization software solution.
In addition, the upstart is announcing that it has rais... |
| 14.10.2009 | Former Zango Execs Unveil BigDoor Media to Help Web Publishers Make More Money | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s one of the great mysteries of the modern Internet. How can Web publishers make more money from their content? For everything from blogs and journalism to games and entert... |
| 30.09.2009 | Founder’s Co-op Funds Nearlyweds and BigDoor Media, and Is Exploring New Investment Model | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 9/30/09 2:15 pm. See below.] Seattle-based Founder’s Co-op, the seed-stage fund run by Andy Sack and Chris DeVore, has been busy as of late. The peer-to-peer angel gr... |
| - | 50 Resources On Loyalty, Churn, & Customer Retention For Startups | Article Source
Earning customer loyalty is an uphill battle, but it is always worth the effort.
You’ve seen the data: the Harvard Business School report that showcased how, on average, increasing customer retention rates by 5% increases pro... |
