Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Almost every early-stage startup who has approached investors for funding has heard the innocuous sounding rejection “I love your idea, but come back when you have more traction.” If your product is free, with advertising revenue from click-throughs, you need a sign-up rate and page-view rate that approaches one million page views per month.

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Startup Metrics Customer Custom 121

socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based Maple Media (maplemedia.io) recently announced a big, $30M funding from Shamrock Capital, to assemble a collection of mobile applications in the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. What's the idea behind Maple Media? What was appealing to you about the mobile app area?

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Media Mobile Startup Acquisition 153

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. We get it! I Be specific. Tesla is not. m pleased.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Almost every early-stage startup who has approached investors for funding has heard the innocuous sounding rejection “I love your idea, but come back when you have more traction.” If your product is free, with advertising revenue from click-throughs, you need a sign-up rate and page-view rate that approaches one million page views per month.

Startup 106

Startup Metrics Customer Custom 106

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

So while it started more about finding solutions to get him driving cars more or logging airline miles he also focuses on big, industry-changing ideas. And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Includes content mobile guides, ie. Scott has this obsession. Foursquare.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

For us, digital media means consumer Internet, online advertising, mobile, gaming, and most importantly--this is Rick and my background--next generation infrastructure to support consumption of this media. It's all that stuff that allows publishers and advertisers to better understand their user base and how to effectively monetize it.

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Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2017

This is the year, according to all the data, where mobile messaging will surpass social. Even without knowing the exact number, we know social is big, but that this year, mobile messaging will pass it in terms of user engagement, sessions per day, and minutes per day.

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Startup Social Network Southern California Mobile 100