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Thursday, August 13, 2009 -- Industry Trends, Social Media and Web2.0 The workshop is divided into two major subjects that are of significant interest to todays marketers: DIY Social Media and Social Media ROI. See [link] (more).
I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. The market had tanked.
He researched his market, he thought hard about how he thought it might ultimately monetize, he built a prototype and he created a very compelling vision for where he thought his market would head. The Deal – I instantly loved the idea for the application, the market and Dustin’s vision. “And importantly Web2.0
massive engagement on Twitter , Facebook and other forms of Web2.0 Make It Work (MEDIA) is not just a radio show! It’s a media bomb…which includes: a 2-hour terrestrial radio show complete with iTunes podcasts.
In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising. This is one book-end of the cycle.
Engel said that the service is aimed at SaaS and Web2.0 Engel has some prior success in the Internet area, having been VP of Marketing at Picasa when it was acquired by Google, as well as being involved in GoToMyPC and Idealab. companies, to eliminate their need for maintaining their own e-commerce infrastructure.
Rosenblatt had suggested earlier this year at the Web2.0 Rosenblatt explained that the firm's decision to go for an IPO depends on the firm's board of directors and the market, but said that having raised $355M in funding, the firm is thinking about some kind of exit at some time.
What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web2.0 But let’s be honest – they’re mostly the same old shit as Web 1.0, So what changed that ushered in the new era that was officially dubbed Web2.0? Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets?
Another thing that Dave has done well is to look at the value of different marketing channels: There’s a lot of value in this presentation. Dave’s model provides a much richer understanding of what’s happening, but in a way that’s understandable and measurable. Be sure to check out the entire presentation.
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But I believe that if you go down this road you will struggle to simultaneously serve the SMB market. The needs are too different as are the sales channels and marketing messages. Avoid the low end of the market – too elusive and hard to shake enough money out of them. And know that VC will be hard to come by.
I like to invest where I have a personally strong connection with the entrepreneur and/or a strong intuition on the market from prior experience. They have very a very good sense for what is going on a market but not a well-honed knowledge of an industry and what will define success or failure. Who ultimately invested in FourSquare?
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I’ve had a long-standing rule of thumb in product design, which I call “design for the novice, configure for the pro.&# I started saying this back in 2001/02, long before the era of Web2.0, Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis. lean startups or even the advent of AJAX.
6 or 7 years ago when TechCrunch was at its peak market share (they are still strong but many more tech blogs have also popped up) there was a term for getting covered there called “the TechCrunch bounce.” ” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web2.0)
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But when you think about the movement we once called “Web2.0″ And the fan producers all help market your show because they too want the attention. I repeat – free marketing. He’s one step ahead of the rest of the market. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices.
I sometimes feel that the Silicon Valley culture and we as technologists more broadly can breed monoculture in our approach to entrepreneurship, problem solving, market analysis and technology solutions. It was an “enterprise 2.0” panel at the dawn of what people began calling “web2.0.”. But then the world changes.
so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. is Sean Rad.
That’s a tall order, especially when your business culture has to fit into the myriad of international and local cultures that are part of every market these days. This is where the culture of the startup has to adapt to the cultures of the markets served. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web2.0
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My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. Our advice is what helped them target the right market, hire the right team, build the right products.&# And there are some delusional people who really believe it. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web2.0, I was baffled.
Eric Sikola is CEO of ExpenseBay (www.expensebay.com), a Los Angeles-based, online, software-as-a-service startup which has created an online application which uses Web2.0 The firm has taken the ease-of-use, interconnectivity, and other features we take granted from modern Web2.0 How big is the firm now?
The company, which operates a network of online markets for outsourcing biomedical research services and supplies, has raised $24 million in a new round of venture funding. Founding CEO Kevin Lustig said Scientist.com will use the additional cash to expand its operations.
Some of the Entrepreneurs in the Bay I’ve learned the most from are: Greg Tseng – smartest person I’ve ever met about user viral marketing and A/B testing. Mark Zuckerberg & Reid Hoffman – hands down built the two best consumer internet applications on the web. Peter Pham – best networker / connector in web2.0.
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I’ve been doing some research to assess how much of it is reality, since I have to admit that I seem to have missed the clues to the transition to Web2.0, After some work, I’m still convinced that much of the Web 3.0 buzz is hype, but things are changing on the Internet, and bits and pieces of Web 3.0 are appearing.
The last piece, was we figured that we could disintermediate a broken, retail channel, by creating a customized, sophisticated, Web2.0 Shaan Sethi: I think the medical market is quite different from traditional apparel. solutions, providing healthcare professionals with a more enjoyable and fluid shopping experience.
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This time frame – 2005/2006 – web2.0 We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. “Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital.
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That’s a tall order, especially when your business culture has to fit into the myriad of international and local cultures that are part of every market these days. This is where the culture of the startup has to adapt to the cultures of the markets served. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web2.0
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