Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

No business or startup wants to be the next Myspace, or even the next RIM (BlackBerry), where changes in the marketplace were subtle. For example, if it’s getting harder to charge a price premium for the product you’re marketing, or others are offering your subscription service for free, it may be time to start thinking in a new box.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. MySpace wasn’t ready for this, and it soon faded.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2015

No business or startup wants to be the next Myspace, or even the next RIM (BlackBerry), where changes in the marketplace were subtle. For example, if it’s getting harder to charge a price premium for the product you’re marketing, or others are offering your subscription service for free, it may be time to start thinking in a new box.

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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. Friendster was a fad, Second Life was a fad, MySpace was a fad, and Facebook suddenly seems old school. That won’t build any competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2017

No business or startup wants to be the next Myspace, or even the next RIM (BlackBerry), where changes in the marketplace were subtle. For example, if it’s getting harder to charge a price premium for the product you’re marketing, or others are offering your subscription service for free, it may be time to start thinking in a new box.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2013

No business or startup wants to be the next Myspace, or even the next RIM (BlackBerry), where changes in the marketplace were subtle. For example, if it’s getting harder to charge a price premium for the product you’re marketing, or others are offering your subscription service for free, it may be time to start thinking in a new box.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Myspace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. Myspace wasn’t ready for this, and it soon crashed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. MySpace wasn’t ready for this, and it soon faded.

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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. Other examples often mentioned include Hashable and MapQuest. If your startup culture doesn’t include a sense of urgency, your probabilities of long-term success are miniscule.

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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. Friendster was a fad, Second Life was a fad, MySpace was a fad, and Facebook suddenly seems old school. That won’t build any competitive advantage.

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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. Friendster was a fad, Second Life was a fad, MySpace was a fad, and Facebook suddenly seems old school. That won’t build any competitive advantage.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

A good example of what we do is, you can open a WAP browser on your phone and go to m.myspace.com, which is perfectly fiîe. But, with Intercasting and our ANTHEM version of MySpace, it's a client integrated into the device. Not only can you send photos to MySpace, you can bring content down to your handset.

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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. Friendster was a fad, Second Life was a fad, MySpace was a fad, and Facebook suddenly seems old school. There is no free lunch.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

For example, if your issue is healthcare--which is hot right now--you can target certain members of a subcommittee, or your memberships' individual Senators or Congressmen--or even the President or Vice President, if you want. What really differentiates us from our competition is the data set we have. Kurt and I are pretty Web 2.0

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Let me use LA as an example. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. It’s true that MySpace didn’t become Facebook, but it did spawn 7 or 8 great LA companies run by founders with experience. Sure, but it will be different than the Bay Area ones.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition. They can contribute content, contribute their edits, remix video, work together as groups, and then send that content across the web to Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, or their own website. They wanted to use the platform we had developed in a class called Mashup Culture.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

as an example of why I shouldn’t be investing in the Twitter ecosystem any longer. Here’s some examples you can infer from the social data: @SnoopDogg has more Twitter fans in Texas than he has in New York. It is an awesome example of the power of implicit data. So with DataSift I’m doubling down. million followers).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

Ultimately to become defensible the client application would want to diversify its “stream&# so would start supporting Facebook, MySpace and perhaps even IM products. Often these were things that would make Salesforce more competitive vis-a-vis Oracle and Microsoft.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

And thats not even counting MySpace, which Rupert Murdoch famously paid $580 million for in 2005. We have all the people who came out of eHarmony; who came from MySpace and Overture and PriceGrabber and Lastminute.com and Shopzilla and CitySearch and all these places. What is happening in L.A. today that drives the startup community?

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

Further, your core group of really good engineers will set the tone and example for everyone else and will likely always represent 80% of the value delivered by your development team. Bringing in Steady engineers too early could result in a less competitive product, bringing them in too late could result in instability.

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