Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2023

Just ask MySpace, eToys, and Pets.com. In a healthy economy, capital markets and discriminating customers fuel growth and new ventures by handsomely rewarding well-executed ideas, and ruthlessly starving out even long-running ventures that refuse to adapt and innovate. Startups can go down many times faster than they go up.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Why did MySpace lose to Facebook & what can Twitter learn from this? MySpace grew faster because Friendster’s servers couldn’t scale. MySpace didn’t handle images or video well. So users put all their photos on Photobucket & their videos on YouTube and shared them with their friends through MySpace.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Jones is also the former CEO of MySpace. These exits have really validated our team's vision and that the talent and ideas that we invest and believe in. (www.science-inc.com), the startup studio which has been behind such companies as Dollar Shave Club, Famebit, HelloSociety, and many others. Michael Jones: Simplification.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

According to a post on Lalawag, Sean and Laurie decided to sell to Valley Girl because they wanted someone who could "renew it with new content and new ideas" and because they linked Valley Girl's focus on videos. Sean Percival is VP of Online Marketing at MySpace.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

(www.science-inc.com), headed by Mike Jones , the former CEO of Myspace. Mike Jones: Coming out of Myspace, I looked at both operational roles and joining a venture fund. One, is we'll come up wit our own ideas, and work with really early stage entrepreneurs in-house. You just left MySpace--when did you decide to start Science?

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MAY 4, 2011

Norgard is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded NewRoo (acquired by Fox Interactive Media/MySpace) and co-founding Twitter advertising startup Ad.ly. Where did the idea come from and how did you start working on this? We started experimenting with lots of ideas, and Namesake is the evolution of a thousand small tweaks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

Friendster was a fad, Second Life was a fad, MySpace was a fad, and Facebook suddenly seems old school. Engagement occurs when customers and stakeholders become participants by sharing ideas with you, or talking to their friends about you, rather than merely viewing what you publish. New can turn old very quickly.

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

www.science-inc.com), the startup �studio� led by former MySpace CEO and technology veteran Mike Jones , just saw its third acquisition out of its portfolio this year�the acquisition of FameBit by Google/Youtube. Los Angeles-based Science Inc. If there is any one piece of advice you'd pass on to entrepreneurs, what would it be?

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

We spoke with Josh Brooks , the founder and CEO of the company, about what the firm is doing, his background at MySpace, and what's next for the company. I created Postcard On The Run because I was excited by the the idea of sharing and creating a keepsake from a mobile device, and making it more than just posting it online.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Notes: Traditionally has incubated its own companies (from ideas from Bill Gross), but recently, through its New Ventures group, has been funding new startups which were developed externally. Notes: Digital studio/incubator of Mike Jones, former CEO of MySpace. ideas, as well as funds external companies. Science, Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2020

Just ask MySpace, eToys, and Pets.com. In a healthy economy, capital markets and discriminating customers fuel growth and new ventures by handsomely rewarding well-executed ideas, and ruthlessly starving out even long-running ventures that refuse to adapt and innovate. Startups can go down many times faster than they go up.

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MAY 18, 2011

I connected those two about three years ago--back when MySpace was actually MySpace, and Facebook was Facebook. The idea was born in Vegas. I was looking at a crowd at a club, and I noticed how the clubs were using MySpace's personal profiles as venue profiles.

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JUNE 23, 2010

What's the idea behind Worlize? Brian McKelvey: We're building a virtual world, which attaches to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and all the social networks. The firm's CEO is Brian McKelvey , who we caught up with recently to learn more about his background, the firm, and the market it hopes to serve. Thanks for the interview.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Carter was a co-founder/partner at Amplify.LA, and also was founder of Vertical Technologies, Thoughtstar, and S5 Wireless'' Hurff was formerly the EVP of Engineering at MySpace, and also was an EIR at Science Inc. The idea is we''ll do three products and companies in the next 18 months, and we''re hiring as we speak.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

One of Urbandig's co-founders, Mike Macadaan -- the former VP of User Experience at MySpace, and creator of the technology conference Twiistup--sat down to talk to us about the company. What's the idea behind Urbandig? When I had this idea in 2004, there was no iPhone, and smart phones didn't play well.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

According to Central Desktop, it has released new abilities for its customers to share their stories and best practices, through online discussion forums, social networking communities, and links to social sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Delicious, and Flickr.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

I think you will find that most investors will relate to the following strategy for keeping the right perspective and getting the profit versus growth balance right: Pick an idea that has the potential to make money. MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I’ve been engaged with social networking for some time now, starting with Myspace and Facebook and just recently (within the last 30 days), Twitter. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time! I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I’ve been engaged with social networking for some time now, starting with Myspace and Facebook and just recently (within the last 30 days), Twitter. We will collaborate on ideas and projects. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time!

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APRIL 15, 2010

Because GoTo.com was his idea. But bill is a BIG idea guy. So my guess is that Tweetup needs to go “multi-stream&# (as in Facebook, MySpace, etc.). That said, Photobucket was a “crack filler&# that exited for $250 million to MySpace. Overture sold for $1.6 billion to Yahoo! So t hey bought it for a cool $1.65

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Students are great source of ideas because they’re willing to challenge the existing norms – the basis for all disruption. But beyond the idea that startups come from colleges, they are obviously a very important feeder system into local startups with cheap, young, hard-working talent. I thought it was an amazing idea.

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MAY 6, 2013

I became friends with Tom Anderson and I jumped onto MySpace when it first launched. After MySpace was acquired by Fox, I learned that there was a huge market for ad inventory. I left MySpace in 2008 to help MySpace to monetize its inventory better. To progress and be LA tech-focused, we started incubating ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Friendster was a fad, Second Life was a fad, MySpace was a fad, and Facebook suddenly seems old school. Engagement occurs when customers and stakeholders become participants by sharing ideas with you, or talking to their friends about you, rather than merely viewing what you publish. New can turn old very quickly.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

I'm very curious to hear any reactions to this idea of a hot list. This is based on occurrences during this time period as compared to other time periods. The social signals seem obvious in some cases, but not always clear to me in other cases.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

I think you will find that most investors will relate to the following formula for keeping the right perspective and getting the profit versus growth balance right: Pick an idea that has the potential to make money. Myspace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model.

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JULY 7, 2011

In a bid to simplify that world, and going beyond the current idea of unified communications, VoxOx (www.voxox.com) is looking to create a "universal communicator" which supports the full range of those services through a single interface. It's pretty comprehensive. We recall you started from the phone side of the world?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

I think you will find that most investors will relate to the following strategy for keeping the right perspective and getting the profit versus growth balance right: Pick an idea that has the potential to make money. MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

For those who may be unfamiliar with the Biz2Beach conference, its a networking conference of thought leaders, innovators, and trendsetters for a day of exchanging ideas. and most recently Myspace, where he ran an online marketing team focused on SEO, social media, and paid traffic acquisition.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

The idea came about after founder, Jonathan Eppers, found himself constantly fending off questions from friends about his adventures. ” Jonathan’s passion for building great consumer products at MySpace and most recently for eHarmony can be seen in the Little Black Book. or upgraded.

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APRIL 12, 2013

Capital raise ability is one of the ideas behind the whole trend towards accelerator--to help. is the incubator program started by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones, and which includes such notable entrepreneurs as Mike Macadaan, Peter Pham, and Tom Dare. For our first list, we tallied the venture capital raised by portfolio companies of.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

In November, Michael Jones, the former CEO of MySpace, announced his plans for Science Inc. The idea, is how do we facilitate marketplaces which take under-monetized inventory and fragmented markets, and consolidate them? www.science-inc.com), a new technology studio aimed at building new businesses in Los Angeles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2011

Presenting your startup vision as a founder to a potential investor, or presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. If you fail, it’s your loss, not theirs, no matter what the reason.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2015

Just ask MySpace, eToys, and Pets.com. In a healthy economy, capital markets and discriminating customers fuel growth and new ventures by handsomely rewarding well-executed ideas, and ruthlessly starving out even long-running ventures that refuse to adapt and innovate. Startups can go down many times faster than they go up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2015

Some of you may remember MySpace , which came early to social media, but lost the lead to Facebook by evolving too slowly, many analysts say. A sense of urgency won’t save a bad idea or the wrong team, but the good news is that it will fail faster, allowing people to move on quickly to more productive opportunities.

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JUNE 2, 2010

What is the idea behind Invested.in? Where did the idea come from originally? Alon Goren; I worked for a couple of years at MySpace, doing customer support and QA, and stuff like that, doing my time and working my way up. launched earlier this year at DEMO. But, every single option was very stale and inflexible.

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MAY 25, 2010

They don’t want to ever wake up and hear their users saying their moving on another platform where they can make more money as Lady Gaga’s manager does here about MySpace. By embracing high-quality in-stream ads Twitter will help foster its own ecosystem of publishers and advertisers.

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