Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

Mark Zuckerberg announced native Instant Articles as a feature update about a year ago and Facebook has been slowly rolling out and improving the product ever since. Facebook started with the biggest publishers in the game: BuzzFeed , Huffington Post , New York Times , Washington Post.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

And as Jon Steinberg of Buzzfeed points out, the CTRs for social media banner ads are just 0.08%. Ask anybody if they like product placements in movies or TV and they’ll resoundingly tell you “no&# but marketers know better, which is why the celebrity endorsement industry is a $50 billion industry. Holy Shiitake !

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Advertising Media Social Media Screening 352

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MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Interesting that Booyah is led by a former game producer, Keith Lee, who formerly launched very large products for Blizzard Entertainment. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2018

Fridays can be the most productive work day, as you look to shore up everything before the weekend starts. Or, maybe instead, it’s a day filled with long lunches and listless Internet surfing, as you seek out all the interesting articles you missed during the week.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Organization Product 80

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

No matter where I worked, I never found any sort of product that managed the workflow between editors and writers and it is the number one problem in the publishing world. I built the product I wanted, as a writer, editor, and as a publisher. Get your product to them as soon as possible.

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Journal Startup Writing Media 90

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JUNE 8, 2014

Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did. While the costs of starting a tech company have plummeted it still does take money to hire a team, launch products and market oneself. And then the world changed. I’ve outlined some of the changes in the following posts: 1.

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MARCH 11, 2016

Let me just put this more clearly for you up front – the vast majority of the Internet is used for porn so every product has this use but you probably just don’t know about it: YouTube, Tumblr, Facebook, FaceTime, Skype and of course be very careful on Google Search without “safe mode” on.

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Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate. Or perhaps you think Donald Trumps assessment that BuzzFeed is a “ Failing pile of garbage is correct?” For example, one product alone — Tasty — is consumed by 500 million people per month.

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