Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started. Even Snapchat is now trying hard to generate revenue. So let’s take a look.

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JUNE 17, 2017

Or you know the other one — the one where Snapchat lost $2 billion in just one quarter. They hired a biz dev team to work on deals where their product could be embedded in other people’s products as a way to increase customer demand. If there was strong market demand for their product then this investment might pay off handsomely.

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LATechDigest

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Cornerstone on Demand brought together the area’s best & brightest for its fourth annual LA Tech Summit , once again hosted at the Fairmont. Lasky praised Snapchat’s rollout of Stories, admired Spiegel as a constant inventor, and hinted at a future product flow that is very unique. LA Tech has arrived.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

We have a couple of thousand retailers and a product catalog of 80 million products, and every day, people are posting their photos and videos to Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter. The second part of our app is Know It, which is a video on demand platform. Retailers will pay them for those recommendations.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Yes, we all know that stories of Facebook, Snapchat and Uber where the founders had either board control or super voting rights by class structure but this is actually the exception and you shouldn’t blow up a good financing option over this issue. But it’s quite rare. With that said, no venture capital firm really wants to replace a CEO.

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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). Announcing that you are a consultant, and hoping demand will set your focus, is not a good strategy. Shape your business by design, not by default.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve been involved with SaaS companies with VCs who don’t understand demand generation, lead qualification, sales coverage ratios, sales forecasting or frankly when deals should be inside sales vs. outside sales. Fred Wilson wrote perfectly about sticking with struggling investments. FourSquare. Everywhere.

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JANUARY 12, 2014

While many tech startups do this intuitively (say, SnapChat thinking it would be much better if our photos out partying disappeared) it still happens. The fees generated from speaking engagements and consulting can be worth several times the investment of getting your book on a best seller list. So, yes, you can buy a best seller.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2016

We write about $40 million of first-checks into new deals / year and about $40 million of follow-on investments. Smart phones finally took off leading to enormous wealth creation for Apple employees and investors but also helped propel Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp and others. But let me be even more clear.

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JANUARY 13, 2016

Founded in Los Angeles by Latinos to address the growing demand for short-form online video for Millennials it is probably single-handedly improving the diversity of the tech industry as the employee base is overwhelmingly Latino and proud. They battled it out with FullScreen who was also very successful. I looked at a bunch of models.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. An obvious vector for me would be software for the media industry.

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