Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

It’s not just Snapchat, although there’s that. See in the end, in LA VC firms are far more collaborative than competitive. Back then only 15% of our dollars were invested locally whereas today 50% of our dollars are invested in LA. Don’t we know it. We love LA!

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2015

But what if we could make those photos disappear like SnapChat? That tested well, but it seems the press liked SnapChat better. And while physical storage is a $24 billion market in the US with no brand with more than 10% market share, emotional baggage is unlimited and has no competition.

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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. There are a lot of mobile dating apps out there, and lots of competition. What''s one of the hottest, fastest growing mobile apps out there out of a Southern California startup?

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Mobile Southern California News Snapchat 245

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

They are going to Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, and Snapchat. by 15 million users since 2017, as young people ages 12 to 17 migrate to Snapchat and Instagram. That won’t build any competitive advantage. When the glass is only.04% 04% full, you should start looking for a new container. Where are the young social media users going?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

It’s insanely competitive to get into our industry so most have degrees from institutions like Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and University of Chicago (blatant plug ;-). VCs, how to select a VC, etc.) and I realized that without years of experience it is tough to answer this question. Most VCs are book smart. FourSquare. Everywhere.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

seed and they are writing $1.25m of it you can expect them to require a board seat) The competitive landscape (If you have several sources of capital you can likely politely decline the board request or can grant them a seat but ask for it to be “common appointed” and those revokable if you need in the future).

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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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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. Both encouraged students to build great things, solve big problems, and change the world. I’ve never seen such a unified group of hackers.

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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. That won’t build any competitive advantage. When the glass is only.04% There is no free lunch.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

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. At the same time, there's not that intensity of competition for engineers as in Silicon Valley. We're taking a different approach.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The short video app builder was facing competition from the likes of Twitter’s Vine and Facebook’s Instagram video and MixBit. Social video sharing platform Viddy has not been doing well as of late, even though it had struck a chord with loyal consumers and had a raised a significant amount of capital to see it grow.

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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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Social Media Media Snapchat Platform 64

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The new device appears to be directly competitive to Venice-based Snap's own camera sunglasses. According to PogoTec, the PogoCam attaches magnetically to most glasses, so consumers can record things from a different point of view.

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LATechDigest

JUNE 20, 2016

EA Announces Weekly eSports Competitions ( link ). SNAPCHAT AdWeek’s Cover Story ( link ). SNAPCHAT to Insert Ads Between Stories ( link ). SNAPCHAT Spotted at LAX. Sneaky ghost face chillah at LAX cc: @Snapchat #LongLA pic.twitter.com/t8iXs6bE3d. ASTRONAUTS WANTED Launches Transmedia Residency ( link ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat, Kik, and other applications. That won’t build any competitive advantage. That’s 99.96% of people not clicking on those ads. When the glass is only.04% 04% full, you should start looking for a new container. Where are the young social media users going? There is no free lunch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

They only see and remember the recent new entrants in the billion dollar valuation club, including Uber, Airbnb, and Snapchat. Never under-estimate or ignore the competition. If you really believe that you have no competition, then you haven’t looked, or there is no market for your solution. Position your barriers to entry.

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LATechDigest

JUNE 13, 2016

SNAPCHAT Showing Phenomenal Growth ( link ). Snapchat’s #1 Channel ARSENIC TV Featured by Bloomberg ( link ). Daqri, Snapchat, SpaceX Make CNBC ‘s Disruptor 50 ( link ). RECESS Finals Competition Wrapped at CTRL. THE VIRTUAL REALITY CO Raises $23M Series A ( link ). FREQUENCY Raises $11M Series B ( link ).

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LATechDigest

MAY 23, 2016

SNAPCHAT Preparing Its Own Algo ( link ). SNAPCHAT to Redesign Discover Channel in June ( link ). NFTE Hosted Their Annual Entrepreneur Competition. DISNEY Puts All Its VR in a Single App ( link ). LITTLSTAR Tracks Your Eyeballs within VR Viewers ( link ). VNTANA Partners with Microsoft for Its Hollagram ( link ).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

If you’re negotiating with Samsung you can imagine they have Apple on their minds and if you’re negotiating with Twitter you can imagine they have eyes on Facebook, Google and even Snapchat.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There are so many events to attend that one could become a full time conference attendee and you could easily feel like you’re missing out with each event that happens without you and of course there is Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat to remind you just how fun it was for everybody else. You don’t need to be hot.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Assume competition and assume within the buying organization you have enemies. When we went to raise funds we faced lots of competition as there are of course many other VC funds in the country. Take nothing for granted. Make sure you stand out. It requires that you be unique and stand for something. This is true for startups, too.

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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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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). If your business card and website come across as just another advisor, consultant, or accountant, then don’t be surprised if price is the only focus.

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Social Media Pricing Technical Review Demand 56

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. ” And if you’re an A-round investor who usually paid $15-20 million pre but through competition started paying $40 million pre, the problems trickle down to you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat. The new entrepreneurial age is here, but you can’t be competitive if you don’t speak the language. See how many of these you have personally encountered or feel confident that you can confidently discuss with investors -- or even explain to friends and family.

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Startup Software Review Equity Invest 57

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

Turning the Urgency Addiction into a Competitive Asset. It’s honestly liberating to know that I CAN’T check my email, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, NYTimes, etc. When I work on tasks or presentations or analyses I often get into the weeds but I often rely on a partner to make sure we cross every T and dot every I.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc). Lower costs to start a business (95% reduction), many more companies created & funded by angels / seed.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. But some of you will surely say “What about Facebook and Snapchat, who focused on growth first and are clearly successful?” Even the popular Snapchat is still struggling to generate revenue and profit.

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Platform Snapchat Startup Course 118

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

This market structure in which the few, large players use their market position to eliminate competition is inevitable. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. It’s Hobbesian economics 101. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others.

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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. But some of you will surely say “What about Facebook and Snapchat, who focused on growth first and are clearly successful?” Even Snapchat is now trying hard to generate revenue. So let’s take a look.

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Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 74

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. But some of you will surely say “What about Facebook and Snapchat, who focused on growth first and are clearly successful?” Even Snapchat is now trying hard to generate revenue. So let’s take a look.

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Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 55

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2021

It’s like the kids with their obsession with Snapchat streaks. It pushed me harder, it became my own little competition with imaginary people I was riding against and with myself. On May 31st the competition ended. I knew that I was giving over to a game, to numbers, to silly mind games of streaks but I decided to embrace it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Jonah said that didn’t map to his views on the history of the media business or to his own experiences at BuzzFeed where he contents that he is being paid to produce content by companies like Facebook and Snapchat. I asked Jonah about his started position in photos, lists, GIFs and text and where he thought video fit in.

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