Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Even with instant two-way communication via the Internet and mobile phones, your greatest new solution or service won’t found or properly recognized without marketing. For young consumers today, it may be Instagram or Snapchat, while B2B offerings should take a hard look at LinkedIn and other business forums. every month.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As I sit here writing this, I can’t help but think how excited I am about our future. Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. What made Twitter unique was the infrastructure and psychology that coincided with the rise of mobile text messaging.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

We helped talent with O&O (owned & operated websites) and with ad sales. YouTube AND other platforms. And of course SnapChat is relevant for younger video consumers. But ignoring SnapChat for video is a mistake. The platforms are expanding and fragmenting. We built creators tools and website builders.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Part I, Team) Tact was founded by Chuck Ganapathi , who was formerly the SVP of Products at Salesforce.com having led initiatives like their chat product, CRM and mobile. Here’s how they did it … Mobile First —  It is now well understood that “mobile first” dominated the consumer Internet and we take this for granted.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Thus begins Snapchat and why you don’t get it. Snapchat will be used for both like the Internet (and TV) are. I just need to break you of the idea that Snapchat is for one thing – it is not. But since Snapchat uses the frequency above your hearing range it’s nearly impossible to “get” without help.

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JANUARY 13, 2016

And while producers also have their own direct websites and distributors have their own originals: The world is specializing into mostly content producers and content distributors plus social platforms that also distribute video like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine and Snapchat. But the one I was most attracted to was Latino.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. Currencies only began in earnest about 2,500 years ago and ever since have been a great enabler of democracy and social mobility, not the other way around. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

I would see this many times of the next decade where I learned that nearly every part of the web that involved monetization was immediately gamed and arms races emerged between platforms to combat abuse and people looking for a quick buck. In fact, the platforms weren’t always so quick to crack down as many of them benefitted financially.

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