Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

I mention this because Greg led our investment in a company that I have personally become addicted to called Draft. If you want to read more about our investment you can follow its launch today on ProductHunt , which has become my favorite place now to launch new applications and companies. But it still takes time.

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APRIL 21, 2017

Georg Richter: OceanX is a technology platform, and a company, solely focused on physical subscriptions. Georg Richter: For the five years before I started the company in January of 2016, I was at Guthy Renker, which is one of the largest and biggest direct marketing companies in the world. How did you get into this?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In fact, the focus on social networking platforms, starting with Facebook, has destroyed the meaning of the word friend and even changed it from a noun to a verb. Of course, we all need friend relationships in our private lives, and some of these may evolve from or lead to business relationships.

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MAY 13, 2016

SMASHD’s first Cohort brought four early-stage + one mature company into the fold: Sidestep : Mobile platform for live events that allows fans to order merchandise before, during and after an event for VIP pickup and delivery, who has relationships in place with Ticketmaster, and is a merch partner on Beyonce’s latest tour.

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MARCH 25, 2016

What would it take in investments to acquire and retain traffic to support these businesses? If you look at the structure of the travel industry above – of course we know that the hotel industry is fragmented while the airline industry is reasonable consolidated. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

From the day after we sold the company until today I felt it was important that I not comment too much publicly about online video even though I continued to work actively in the sector and made five more investments. We had a studio and invested in content creation. YouTube AND other platforms. We sold brand integration.

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MARCH 30, 2016

If you want to see what was on my mind – I started foreshadowing change publicly in October 2015 with a forecast of what I expected in 2016 VC funding markets at a presentation I gave at the annual Cendana VC/LP conference hosted by Michael Kim. But of course public markets had begun gyrating. 2015 turned to 2016.

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JUNE 5, 2016

The second major trend was the rise of the angel that was a function of the boom in Silicon Valley wealth (Google, Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, Salesforce.com, etc) plus the rise of crowd-funding platforms (AngelList) plus the rise of Y Combinator / 500Startups / TechStars. Boom in Number of Startups. Explosion in Seed Funds.

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OCTOBER 18, 2015

Fast forward 3 years and looking out into the 2016 horizon, what do I see? The market has yielded what investment guru Michael Moritz recently termed “ subprime Unicorns.” Final venture outlook 2016 from Mark Suster. ” ring hollow. ” How elegantly stated. The definition of a bubble from Investopedia.

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JANUARY 13, 2016

The company that I invested in – Maker Studios – became the largest and covered video games, music, comedy, women’s life style, mom’s, animation and the like. And of course the 800 pound gorilla – YouTube – is also horizontal in nature. And of course these numbers are only increase.

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