Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2019

For example, the IPhone from Apple, although an integration of complex computer services with telephony and photography, is so easy to use that preschoolers catch on immediately, and most of us can’t imagine surviving without a mobile link to friends. In fact, customer experience can be a greater competitive advantage than your product.

Startup 91

Startup Customer Custom Examples 91

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

40% of all of YouTube is viewed on mobile devices and of high-quality content I believe it is between 60-70% based on my insider data. Summary : YouTube as a customer acquisition tool to building great online businesses is unrivaled today. I believe that the high revenue share YouTube takes encourages platform competition.

SEM 150

SEM Content Platform Acquisition 150

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

No summary of what we did, no easy way for me to recommend my trainer to my friends, and no way for me to easily book the next appointment. After the session, Andy posts a summary to Jenna’s profile with the details of their workout and a few words of advice. Any competition in LA? Why did you venture into fitness?

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Display ads on mobile devices, including video and audio, also offer a new opportunity to reach target customers. Display advertising. Email marketing.

Social Media 55

Social Media SEM Startup Advertising 55

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2014

Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he recommends today: Search-engine marketing. Display ads on mobile devices, including video and audio, also offer a new opportunity to reach target customers. Display advertising. Email marketing.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media SEM Advertising 99

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Far from it.

Funding 362

Funding Technical Review Ideas Startup 362

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2016

Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Display ads on mobile devices, including video and audio, also offer a new opportunity to reach target customers. Display advertising. Email marketing.

Customer 60

Customer Custom Marketing Social Media 60

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

If a company wanted to distribute software on a mobile device it need to sell via a “portal” (US term) or a “deck” (UK term) of a mobile carrier. In summary, many advisors, board members or executives will steer you away from exclusivity agreements.

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Startup Customer Custom 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

It’s insanely competitive to get into our industry so most have degrees from institutions like Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and University of Chicago (blatant plug ;-). Think of web vs. mobile. Summary: Team Leadership skills, operating knowhow and industry knowledge are all tremendously important. Most VCs are book smart.

Venture Capital 364

Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. I talked about this in the TWiVC video but I didn’t do a good enough job of writing it up in the summary notes in the post. And when you finish the demo you can bring in the other important components such as competition, team, customer acquisition strategy, etc. Mobile app?

Venture Capital 299

Venture Capital Slides Technical Advisors Startup 299

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

You can expect some strong competition, but it’s unlikely that there will be 5 great scooter companies. Between our on-board CPUs and your mobile phone companions we have an enormous amount of data on transportation routes, where riders want to pick up scooters in the morning and where they leave them in the evening.

Santa Monica 256

Santa Monica Funding Startup Course 256

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Summary Version. They help find talented film makers globally, enter them into competitions and advance the best of them toward winners that get to produce full-length films. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. 200 million views. Suck it traditional TV. means specifically one thing. Is this real?

Startup 380

Startup Media Content Platform 380

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2023

I recall a good summary of how to motivate and train a team to accomplish this in the classic book, “ The Business of Creativity: How to Build the Right Team for Success ,” by Keith Granet. Mobilize the total power of your team to not only build the product, but also build the market. Give credit. Marty Zwilling

Startup 95

Startup Coach Mentor Social Media 95

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

I recall a good summary of how to motivate and train a team to accomplish this in the classic book, “ The Business of Creativity: How to Build the Right Team for Success ,” by Keith Granet. Mobilize the total power of your team to not only build the product, but also build the market. Give credit. Marty Zwilling.

Marketing 130

Marketing Develop Development Startup 130

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Part I, Team) Tact was founded by Chuck Ganapathi , who was formerly the SVP of Products at Salesforce.com having led initiatives like their chat product, CRM and mobile. Here’s how they did it … Mobile First —  It is now well understood that “mobile first” dominated the consumer Internet and we take this for granted.

Software 105

Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Executive Summary. If you want to watch the video version summary of my advice on fund raising it’s here. For example, if you’re looking to approach Kleiner Perkins it’s worth knowing that my friend Matt Murphy runs their iFund and therefore is the in-house expert on all things mobile. It takes a lot of work.

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2016

I just saw a good summary of how to motivate and train your team to accomplish this in a new book, “ The Business of Creativity: How to Build the Right Team for Success ,” by Keith Granet. Mobilize the total power of your team to not only build the product, but also build the market. Give credit.

Marketing 89

Marketing Coach Mentor Social Media 89

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

We estimate that this messaging volume is more than 30x larger than Skype’s mobile messaging. We’re a mobile first company. Expect big competition in the group messaging market. Again, focus. Skype is an amazing web company. BBM will have another major push and we expect an inevitable Google rebuttal to iMessage.

Google 325

Google Press Marketing Content 325

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

Given a choice of your marketing person or talking to you (the founder) there’s no competition. You can say something like, “I was thinking that you might cover a story like, ‘why today’s mobile ad networks don’t benefit most application companies’ and then work me into that story line.

Tips 307

Tips Startup Press Blogging 307

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

It’s true that I have a functional focus on three areas: Performance-based marketing, digital television and mobile computing. If you’re a startup and you haven’t read my summary of Clay Christensen’s seminal work please do. I’m often asked by people what investment areas interest me. That’s what I mean by deflationary economics.

Startup 386

Startup Pricing Marketing Product 386

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

The 30-minute interview of Jonah Peretti is here but my summary in the notes below. And I have been so fascinated by the emotions that BuzzFeed arouses that I asked Jonah if I could do the interview myself. I asked Jonah about his started position in photos, lists, GIFs and text and where he thought video fit in.

Buzzfeed 210

Buzzfeed Media Content News 210