Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Snapchat. Snapchat is currently the fastest growing social network, while Instagram is close behind with a bigger share globally of new sign-ups. by 15 million users since 2017, as young people ages 12 to 17 migrate to Snapchat and Instagram. When the glass is only.04%

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2017

They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Snapchat. Snapchat is currently the fastest growing social network, while Instagram is close behind with a bigger share globally of new sign-ups. in 2017, as young people ages 12 to 17 migrate to Snapchat and Instagram. That won’t build any competitive advantage.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x. But many people benefitted. But it works.

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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. Design a product or service that you can sell. But some of you will surely say “What about Facebook and Snapchat, who focused on growth first and are clearly successful?” So let’s take a look.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? Right now, when people are communicating using Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and others, those businesses are principally using display advertising and sponsored listings to monetize those users. We're taking a different approach.

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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. Design a product or service that you can sell. But some of you will surely say “What about Facebook and Snapchat, who focused on growth first and are clearly successful?” So let’s take a look.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2015

They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Snapchat. In 2014 Tumblr overtook Instagram as fastest-growing social platform, and Snapchat is the fastest-growing mobile app, driven largely by Millennials and teens. This happens today when you talk to people through social media and responsive customer service.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2013

No, not Snapchat--it''s Tinder --a mobile app and service which lets users rate people nearby them, and if the feeling is mutual, connect them. Your service seems to have become very popular, very quickly--why is that? There are a lot of mobile dating apps out there, and lots of competition. That''s what Tinder really is.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Most of the guidance you see for entrepreneurs is aimed at those who are selling a product (Apple, Tesla, Xiaomi), or selling a service (Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat). The challenges for making money and survival in these professional services worlds are different, maybe even tougher. Be targeted in marketing and lead generation.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 21, 2014

The event kicked off with the Opening Ceremony, which featured a talk from Quixey , the main sponsor of the event, and a special keynote speech from SnapChat founder and CEO Evan Spiegel. Projects ranged from motion controlled robot arms to multiplayer chess matches to matching services. The conversion rate there was insane.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

By making it easier to capture value for goods & services that ordinary people provide and by creating a means of storing value today that can be used in the future — currencies have literally changed society and the world. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

So far I have written about the psychology of food and separately about the food services I use and today I am going to talk about how I gamified my sports routines to increase consistent performance every month. It’s like the kids with their obsession with Snapchat streaks. On May 31st the competition ended.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

I remember just a decade ago in 2003 when we all laughed at how dumb people in the 90′s were talking about the race to “capture as many eyeballs as possible” before your competition. ” Case in point: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, SnapChat. You would figure out how to monetize later. I have said so for years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat, Kik, and other applications. This happens today when you talk to people through social media and responsive customer service. That won’t build any competitive advantage. That’s 99.96% of people not clicking on those ads. When the glass is only.04% User to user (engaged community).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Although the carriers made a lot of money initially by selling dial-up Internet services, customers never took their software because, well, it sucked. And often these contracts don’t prohibit you from marketing to competitors so you can often start to build your future pipeline while not immediately selling to the competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Assume competition and assume within the buying organization you have enemies. If you want that kind of service focus I think we’d be a better fit than your internal IT department.” When we went to raise funds we faced lots of competition as there are of course many other VC funds in the country.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

So riffing off the famous Andy Grove statement that “only the paranoid survive” and believing that “only the most exceptionally talented startup teams survive” — most get washed out by the constant cycle of change and competition. Think about Snapchat. Why Invest?

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