User talk:Dawood34/sandbox

Can you think of any specific changes that you might make to either article to improve them? Jmmcabee (talk) 17:34, 18 April 2017 (UTC)jmmcabee

Comments on Ideas Draft
In addition to suggesting general changes, please evaluate each article (like you did for botany and plant phys articles), then offer a new or modified sentence with cited reference. Jmmcabee (talk) 17:40, 26 April 2017 (UTC)jmmcabee

See the article evaluation assignment for questions you should answer- like about the rating of the article and the quality/ currency of the citations. Also you should identify one reference that you can use for your proposed change. Jmmcabee (talk) 16:15, 1 May 2017 (UTC)jmmcabee

Comments on Article Revision
You need to write something for your article. Wikipedia frowns on the use of quotations. Make sure you know how to cite your sources. You can only use photos that are already public, so watch out for that. Jmmcabee (talk) 19:27, 10 May 2017 (UTC)jmmcabee

Comments on Second Draft
Are you sure the economic impacts even belong in the article about buzz pollination? It seems like this is a physiological process that needs to be adequately described, not general information about the importance of pollination. I'm sure there's another page for pollination that you could refer to.

Jmmcabee (talk) 17:32, 15 May 2017 (UTC)jmmcabee

Peer Review
I really enjoyed the article it had some neat information on buzz population in relation to the worlds economy. I do agree in that talking about economic impacts does feel a bit out of place for a section that focuses on the mechanisms involved in buzz pollination. It feels a bit like you went off track of the topic. Maybe you should talk more about how the economy has effected buzz pollination in relation to the bees and pollen production of plants specifically? I liked how you picked plants that are universally known such as the tomato. It does need some grammar check though to make it flow better. I would change “technology advancements” to technological advancements and at the end of the first paragraph you have, “at steady pace,” which I would change to at a steady pace. Also, I believe that lycopersicon esculentum should be italicized since it is a scientific name. Looks like some of your citations are missing links to them, not sure if this is a problem with Wikipedia being compatible with them or if you just haven’t added them yet. Overall, the article looks like it has made some really good progression and you did a good job at keeping a neutral tone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 645gg (talk • contribs) 23:44, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

OfferUp
OfferUp is a Bellevue, Washington based startup responsible for the OfferUp mobile application on the iOS and Android platforms.

History
Launched in 2011 by Nick Huzar, former co-founder and CTO of Konnects, Inc., and Arean van Veelen, OfferUp is a mobile-driven local marketplace that competes with companies such as eBay, Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace. In 2016 the company raised $130 million dollars in funding, bringing the company’s total funding to more than $221 million, and was the only Seattle-area closely held tech company valued at more than $1 billion, making them the areas only unicorn company. Investors include: Andreessen Horowitz, Warburg Pincus, GGV Capital, Altimeter Capital, Jackson Square Ventures, Allen & Company, Tiger Global Management, T. Rowe Price, Quixotic Ventures, Alliance of Angels, Third Kind Venture Capital, Vy Capital, Coatue Management, and Max Levchin; angel investors including Serena Glover, Andrew Wright, and Rudy Gadre. In 2015, OfferUp was named one of the Hottest Startups by Forbes, citing the companies explosive growth between funding rounds throughout the year, and was well-placed to takeover the place Craigslist had once held in the marketplace. Since then, the company has become the largest marketplace for buyers and sellers and was named one of The 7 Most Innovative Startups in Seattle by Inc. OfferUp has broken the Top 50 most downloaded free apps on iTunes and Google Play, above Groupon, eBay and Lyft, is regularly named one of the best places to sell gently used goods and has been lauded for being easier to list products on than sites like eBay, thanks to its clean user interface. According to Mary Meeker, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, during her 2016 “Internet Trends” report, OfferUp sees average daily time spent per user in the United States, growing from 12 minutes per day in November 2014 to 25 minutes in June 2015, on par with Instagram and Snapchat and more than Twitter and Pinterest. She also noted that the company’s gross merchandise volume has grown at a faster clip than eBay at the same stage of the respective companies. As of October 2017, the company is said to have 33 million users and saw an increase in transactions from $2.9 billion in 2015 to more than $14 billion in 2016. Overall, the company grew 166% between 2015 and 2017, according to comScore and generated more peer-to-peer transactions in the first five years than eBay North America in its first ten years. The top categories on the marketplace include: toys, furniture and cars. OfferUp’s employee numbers have also experienced explosive growth, starting at 11 employees in 2015, growing to 67 in 2015, and 218 employees in January 2018. OfferUp is based out of Bellevue, Washington and is currently used in every major city across the United States, with plans to expand internationally. The company moved into a new office space in 2017 which was furnished only with items found on the platform.

Product
The OfferUp platform, offered for iOS, Android and web, facilitates buying and selling used goods. The marketplace, which has been optimized for smartphones, features large photos of products for sale via a visually appealing infinite scroll interface. For buyers, products are featured based on the geo-location closest to the buyer to help encourage face-to-face user interactions and encourage community-centric relationships, but can also be filtered by category, price and distance. On the seller side, products are listed immediately by uploading a photo from a user’s smartphone or computer; the platform makes it easy to sort inbound inquiries by the highest bid before contacting prospective buyers to agree upon price and meeting place. In addition to the community positive aspects, OfferUp helps reduce the carbon impact of new products by reducing demand as well as the number of items that end up in landfills. OfferUp currently offers a “bump” feature, which allows users to move their item to the top of the queue for increased visibility at a nominal fee. Transactions are completed using cash or through OfferUp’s in-app payment platform. The company’s product team continues to focus on removing “friction” and making transactions as seamless as possible for both buyers and sellers. OfferUp conducted surveys about marketplace opportunities and saw that women, in particular, were hesitant because of safety concerns ; to address that the company encourages user transparency and safety through customized profiles and optional third-party identification verification through TruYou, to help empower users with reliable information on each other. Customized profile features include: verification badges, positive review attributes, average response time, trusted connections and personalized background images. In addition, OfferUp profiles can be linked with Facebook to add another layer of security as well as allow users to see local their connections and what they have listed. The app also includes messaging features for buyers and sellers to connect directly, without giving up personal information like email address or phone number. These features, along with a dedicated support staff, are unavailable from traditional marketplace sellers of the past.



OfferUp also has ongoing partnerships with local police stations and select California Ralph’s locations to establish well-trafficked and well-monitored Community MeetUp Spots for transactions to take place at. The company works with more than 800 police departments across the country and there are currently more than 450 active Community MeetUp spots, marked by donated placards indicating the designated, monitored spot. Donated placards and information are available to any police department, in any quantity, that requests them through the OfferUp website. Buyers and sellers can find more information on their local spots by clicking on the small green icon on the bottom right of their chat screen, which will reveal a map of nearby designated spots. In addition to in-person protections, OfferUp has built out its anti-fraud technology to help guard users from within the algorithm by detecting signs of possible scams based on keyword usage. OfferUp has also been utilized by donation-based shops, such as Seattle Children’s Hospital’s Bargain Boutiques, to drive donations, new inventory awareness and support overall awareness for the cause at no cost. The company’s user base also features small businesses and makers looking to grow their sales channels, with some users reporting a 60% increase in sales.

Board of Directors
As of May 2017, the board of directors was as follows :
 * Nick Huzar, CEO of OfferUp
 * Jeff Jordan of Andreessen Horowitz
 * Darrell Cavens, co-founder and CEO of Zulily
 * Justin Sadrian of Warburg Pincus
 * Angel investor Serena Glover
 * Josh Breinlinger of Jackson Square Ventures

Awards
As of January 2017, OfferUp has won the following awards:
 * 425 Business CEO of the Year in 2017
 * Seattle Business Tech Impact Gold Award (Consumer) in 2017
 * Geekwire App of the Year Award in 2016.
 * Seattle Business Tech Impact Silver Award (Consumer/Retail) in 2016
 * Seattle Business Top 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2016
 * Geekwire Start of the Year Award Finalist in 2015

Amperity
Amperity is a cloud-based customer data management platform based in Seattle, WA, belonging to a rising category of |customer data platform (CDP) software providers.

HISTORY

Amperity was founded in 2016 by Kabir Shahani and Derek Slager, who previously started a healthcare marketing software startup, Appature, which was acquired by |IMS Health in 2013. Amperity launched out of stealth mode in September 2017 with Shahani as CEO and Slager as CTO, with Starbucks and LVMH as customers.

On October 26, 2017, Amperity raised $28 million in a funding round led by Tiger Global Management. On July 15, 2019, the company raised an additional $50 million in a Series C funding round also led by |Tiger Global Management with contributions from Goldman Sachs, Declaration Partners, Madera Technology Partners, Madrona Venture Group and Investor |Lee Fixel.

As of July 2019, Amperity is used by consumer brands including Alaska Airlines, Starbucks, Gap Inc., Moet Hennessy USA, MGM Resorts, Kendra Scott, Lucky Brand, Sounders, Stanley, TGI Fridays , Servco, Planet Fitness, Wynn Resorts, Seattle Sounders FC, Topgolf[5], Brooks Running

In July 2019, Amperity was named one of the “100 Best Companies to Work for 2019: Midsize Companies” by Seattle Business Magazine.

PRODUCT

Amperity is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that uses artificial intelligence to provide a unified customer database that is accessible to internal marketing, customer experience and analytics teams.[1] Amperity ingests raw client data from ecommerce, email, loyalty, point-of-sale, clickstream, and other systems spanning organizations, which it standardizes to create a complete and current customer view.[2]

It resolves identities across existing systems (even those without unique identifiers) using machine learning, to continually update and improve the accuracy of group and individual profiles as new information comes in.[2] Amperity’s platform augments the information it collates with custom attributes like lifetime value, and its dashboards enable managers and team leaders to explore data and create segments visually or with SQL.[2]

Amperity launched two products in June 2019, Stitch, which surfaces connections among customer records, and Customer 360 Database, which unifies disparate client identities and attributes to deliver insights.[2][10] It also forged a strategic partnership with Snowflake, adding to similar cloud collaborations with Microsoft, Slalom, and AWS.[2]

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

As of July 2019, the Board of Directors was as follows:

Kabir Shahani, CEO and co-founder, Amperity Kelly Breslin Wright, former executive vice president of sales at Tableau Software Matt McIlwain, managing director at Madrona Group Rajeev Singh, co-founder at SAP Concur (formerly known as Concur) and CEO at Accolade

REFERENCES Dawood34 (talk) 23:07, 26 July 2019 (UTC) DM