Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2008 I started VC blogging. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. In 2016 I finally cracked SnapChat with the launch of Discovery. It’s hard to be discovered on SnapChat right now so I occasionally tweet my SnapChat add handle: https://www.snapchat.com/add/msuster. By now I’m used to the haters.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

There’s Snapchat that uses photos and then instantly disappears after 10 seconds, and then there’s the up-comer, Emojli , that uses tiny cartoonish icons for engagement. Snap Away with Snapchat. Snapchat, founded by Bobby Murphy and Evan Spiegel, boasts of its massive following among kids and teenagers.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 21, 2017

Facebook Instagram Snapchat Twitter Pinterest YoutTube Musically Blogging Reddit Stumbleupon Traffic Generation Email Marketing Easy Tools So much more. Social Media Mastermind Meetup Group If you haven’t attended one of our group sessions prepare to have your mind blown. See [link] (more)

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2015

Everybody now knows that LA produced SnapChat, Tinder and Maker Studios. To mark the occasion of launching this inaugural report I am also proud to announce that we’ve also launched the Upfront Insights blog. It will also serve as home to our partner blogs and to our company announcements.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Unless you’re SnapChat, Instagram or similar this is probably 3-5 years into your existence. In the Growth Years. Where life gets really interesting and where way too few of companies make necessary changes is when you get to the growth phase of your company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant banner ads on Facebook, buying search engine results, and sponsoring blog entries, but these don’t suffice anymore. They are going to Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, and Snapchat. In a classic book on social media by Jim Tobin, “ Earn It. When the glass is only.04%

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Fun Fact: One of the most prominent figures from their firm, Mark Suster t, runs a blog startups follow religiously. Social Media: Snapchat. Developed by four Stanford University students, Snapchat , now located in Venice, is a new way to share moments with friends and family. Make sure to check out Both Sides of the Table !

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

While many tech startups do this intuitively (say, SnapChat thinking it would be much better if our photos out partying disappeared) it still happens. When I first started blogging Digg was still at its peak. Mea culpa and get right back into line. ” Here are some examples: 1. But I wanted to understand it better.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant banner ads on Facebook, buying search engine results, and sponsoring blog entries, but these don’t suffice anymore. They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Snapchat. In a classic book on social media by Jim Tobin, “ Earn It. When the glass is only.04%

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I don’t need to tell you what else is LA … SnapChat, Whisper, Tinder. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1. Maker Studios, the largest producer of online short-form videos (content) recently sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion. All great communication companies. KickStarter?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

By the way, I don’t spell check my blog posts either. that’s where I go to chill out and look at photos of friends. Your kids are getting huge!). I’m on all of them and they’re all used in some form for business communications. I’m not an elitist a **e. I know it may feel this way since I’m writing this tongue in cheek.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2015

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant banner ads on Facebook, buying search engine results, and sponsoring blog entries, but these don’t suffice anymore. They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Snapchat. In a recent book on social media by Jim Tobin, “ Earn It. When the glass is only.04%

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

According to JJ Aguhob in a blog post , “As a startup, we knew we needed to evolve. Epic is a short, sharable video concept that allows users to take slow-motion videos which can then be shared to YouTube, Twitter or via Viddy, while Clique is like the ephemeral image messaging popularized by Snapchat.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Cody Simms: Locally in LA the Snapchat IPO will have a huge impact on our local startup ecosystem. What do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The news blogs will cover the what, how and how much but I want to focus on the “why” and try to be instructive of what I think makes for a great A-round startup. We led a $4 million investment along with Thrive Capital, GLG and Sound Ventures. So Why Imbellus?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2017

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant banner ads on Facebook, buying search engine results, and sponsoring blog entries, but these don’t suffice anymore. They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Snapchat. in 2017, as young people ages 12 to 17 migrate to Snapchat and Instagram.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

Yahoo is on the block�I just wrote a piece on my blog with data points that reflect that�and you can see all of the activity happening, as I anticpated, in media and technology consolidation. Snapchat started as a communications company, but it too is transforming itself into a media company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant buying banner ads on Facebook, or buying a position on search engine results, or sponsoring some blog entries, but these doesn’t work anymore. They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat, Kik, and other applications. I just finished a new book by Jim Tobin, “ Earn It.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. We always look like it’s only fun in our Instagram photos, don’t we?

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Snapchat is a disappearing moment, Instagram is a moment in time, Twitter is a moment with a status or link. Blogging doesn't work, because if you're blogging, you already have to pick a language which half the world doesn't understand, and it's very difficult for people who are illiterate. Those are all instant networks.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Snapchat is a disappearing moment, Instagram is a moment in time, Twitter is a moment with a status or link. Blogging doesn't work, because if you're blogging, you already have to pick a language which half the world doesn't understand, and it's very difficult for people who are illiterate. Those are all instant networks.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

However, as of today, Instant Articles become available to anybody with a Facebook page and a blog. This is a key opportunity for small blogs and publications to get ahead of the game and really understand how best to use the new product. pic.twitter.com/TB1GTGt9ss. Nick Denton (@nicknotned) March 1, 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

When I started blogging it was because I was inspired by Brad Feld. I always wanted to work with Brad for this reason so I started blogging because I figured if transparency worked for Brad I would try the same approach. When I was an entrepreneur there was no public information about how term sheets worked or how investors thought.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

billion invested in Venice, CA-based Snapchat. Included is the $3.5 billion that a non-traditional investor (the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund) invested in San Francisco-based Uber, and the nearly $1.3 The MoneyTree top 10 deals list is below.). A rival survey released Thursday by Dow Jones VentureSource shows that U.S.-based

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

A new social pipeline, the quick blogging style, the similarity to texting: all these things were great for Twitter. The idea of a “retweet” as an endorsement and as a way to “share” someone else’s content within your feed and with your followers, was relatively new (outside of blogging). montanatriplett nice, which Pinot Grigio.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

A series of events this year—from the Equifax data breach to the foreign use of social media to influence the U.S. presidential election—has prompted some to question the utopian promise of innovation, especially when it comes to Web companies and cybersecurity.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 29, 2019

Equidate, one of the trading platforms that help employees sell their shares in pre-IPO unicorn companies, rolled out a new name today and announced a $35 million expansion of its $50 million funding round publicized in July.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Uncertainty surrounding this year’s presidential election has kept U.S. IPO activity at a sluggish pace—so sluggish, in fact, that this year could end with the fewest IPOs and the lowest level of capital raised since 2009, according to PitchBook data for the first nine months of 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. For example, using cryptography and the blockchain I could transmit a blog post or a picture to a third-party who could know authoritatively that this was written word-for-word by me and not doctored in any way.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Thus begins Snapchat and why you don’t get it. Snapchat will be used for both like the Internet (and TV) are. I just need to break you of the idea that Snapchat is for one thing – it is not. But since Snapchat uses the frequency above your hearing range it’s nearly impossible to “get” without help.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

And while producers also have their own direct websites and distributors have their own originals: The world is specializing into mostly content producers and content distributors plus social platforms that also distribute video like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine and Snapchat. So we expect 2016 to be a bumper year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2017

Starting back in 2015 and throughout much of 2016 people started commenting that my blog had become a lot more political. My blog has always been a mixture of what was on my mind and a blend of venture, startup life, tech views and current society events that related to my interests: Venture, startup & tech.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

yes, I get those) … There is an unfollow button on Twitter and Facebook and Snapchat and this blog on Medium. This isn’t my work blog or my company blog or a venture capital blog. This is MY blog. Keep your mouth shut.” (yes, There is even a block button. Feel free to exercise your right.

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