Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. The start of marketing is figuring out a market need and a way to solve that need better than anybody else.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

04% full, you should start looking for a new container. 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. Time to start connecting them with each other.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

Image via Max Pixel A question that I still hear debated often is whether a new startup growth strategy should focus on user count or profits. Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2017

04% full, you should start looking for a new container. 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. Time to start connecting them with each other.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

I work with a lot of startups. I start to notice when bad behavior creeps into the system as a whole. 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. I have said so for years.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2015

This has been a great start we wanted to push harder. We started by beta testing ephemeral photos. But what if we could make those photos disappear like SnapChat? That tested well, but it seems the press liked SnapChat better. That tested well, but it seems the press liked SnapChat better. Startup Lessons'

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LATechDigest

MAY 23, 2016

EXPERT DOJO Investor Festival Brings Together Startups, VCs ( link ). SNAPCHAT Preparing Its Own Algo ( link ). SNAPCHAT Preparing Its Own Algo ( link ). SNAPCHAT to Redesign Discover Channel in June ( link ). NFTE Hosted Their Annual Entrepreneur Competition. PATIENTPOP Adds $10M to Its Series A ( link ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Whether you are talking to peers, competitors or investors, you as an active entrepreneur will be judged on your familiarity with today’s startup and funding jargon. This term is currently applied to recent startups who profess a current valuation which exceeds $1 billion. Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

A question that I still hear debated often is whether a new startup growth strategy should focus on user count or profits. Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” So let’s take a look.

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LATechDigest

JUNE 20, 2016

Startups in the Sky. 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. LA Fintech Mix Mingle.

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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. So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!, Excite, MSN and eventually Google.

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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. All of my friends who have risen up to amazing coders who started off knowing nothing, they learned what they know by building things and creating things.”.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2013

What''s one of the hottest, fastest growing mobile apps out there out of a Southern California startup? 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.

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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. Therefore the LA based startup has announced a line of new products and rebranded under a new name. According to JJ Aguhob in a blog post , “As a startup, we knew we needed to evolve.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. How was it you ended up in San Diego? Wildlink is backed by Mucker Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I rarely talk to any startup entrepreneur or VC who doesn’t feel it and somehow long for simpler times despite the benefits we all enjoy from increased enthusiasm for our sector. And even this can’t stop their employees from fleeing after two years of vesting to move on to the next hot startup. Easier said than done.

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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 ;-). In the end it will be up to you to figure out what to do. Nothing blows up great opportunities faster than founders who are constantly fighting. FourSquare.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Of course this can be done and of course I am a big proponent of the rise of startup centers across the country as the Internet has moved from the “infrastructure phase” to the “application phase” dominated by the three C’s: content, communications and commerce. Locally we call it “the Snapchat effect.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2015

04% full, you should start looking for a new container. 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. Time to start connecting them with each other.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

04% full, you should start looking for a new container. They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat, Kik, and other applications. Time to start connecting them with each other. That won’t build any competitive advantage. engagement entrepreneur Jim Tobin marketing social media startup' When the glass is only.04%

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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). Raise the conversion rate with effective follow-up. Internally, you also need to do things differently to rise above your peers. Don’t forget seminars and events.

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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. Most are sitting on large portfolios of private companies that are raising money now or will need to do so in the future and they know that they’re up against some headwinds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Most budding entrepreneurs don’t realize that nine out of ten startups fail within 24 months. They only see and remember the recent new entrants in the billion dollar valuation club, including Uber, Airbnb, and Snapchat. A lot fewer have experience with the challenges and complexities of launching a startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

Why ADD Might Actually Benefit Startup Entrepreneurs. From the stresses of being a startup founder I began to have pain in my chest that I became worried was heart trouble. My brain ends up on the roof, bouncing around and my concentration goes from 100 to 0. I’ve written about Attention Deficit Disorder a couple of times.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Many people are too cautious in sales processes and as a result when they present their solutions they end up sounding milquetoast and undifferentiated from anybody else in the market. Assume competition and assume within the buying organization you have enemies. I recently wrote about the three rules of sales. Why Buy Anything ?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The most common theme of being a startup in today’s world is that the computing environment and platforms change so rapidly that only the best equipped teams survive the transitions (think Facebook’s shift to mobile or Snapchat’s embrace of augmented reality). Think about Snapchat. Why Invest?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2021

I will publish a lot more about the gear I used and what works and what doesn’t but today is about how I started to supercharge my workouts. I track my weight every morning first thing when I wake up on a Withings Body+ scale. I even found myself standing up in meetings so that I could “close all three circles.” Not this time.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. I asked Jonah about his started position in photos, lists, GIFs and text and where he thought video fit in. Others are skeptical, “Ha!

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