L.A. Business Journal

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Snap Announces Deal with A&E to Develop First Original Snapchat Show, Honest Co. Looking for Consumer Package Goods CEO to Replace Brian Lee, and Activision Hits Record $2B in Sales in Q4.

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L.A. Business Journal

APRIL 24, 2017

Upfront Ventures Joins Jeff Skoll, Paul Allen Investing Arms in $119M Sale of TrueCar Shares, Disney says more than 160 stations signed up for its clearinghouse, and The New York Times launches content and crossword puzzle on Snapchat.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2019

Loop Now Technologies , a startup founded by former LinkedIn and Snapchat employees--which has offices in Los Angeles--says it has launched a brand new, short-form video and social media app called Firework. The company's Chief Revenue Officer is Cory Grenier, who previously was Director of Sales & Marketing at Snapchat.

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Tech.Co

JULY 31, 2017

Shift to Snapchat-Styled Videos. Despite those pitiful stats a lot of B2B businesses still pour hundred thousands of dollars into direct sales and keep complaining about low ROI. Michael Litt recently shared how her B2B company decided to use Snapchat-style videos to engage with both her team and their customers.

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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. I recently wrote about the three rules of sales. In sales we often call these USPs (I wrote about them here: Unique Selling Propositions ).

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap is set to see a punishing day on Wall Street, after reporting poorer than expected third quarter results last night, including poor user growth and sales. SNAP CEO Evan Spiegel said on Tuesday the company is planning a big redesign of its Snapchat app, to broaden appeal of its app to new users.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2019

Snapchat is expectedf to generate $1.36 According to a report from CNBC , a new Chief Business Officer--Jeremi Gorman--has completely changed Snap's advertising business. Gorman previously was an executive at Amazon, and was appointed to the position in October. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 30, 2022

Genies charges a 5% fee on each sale, allowing creators to keep the majority of the revenue they earn on each transaction, Nigam said, contrasting that with the 50%+ fee Meta charges for NFTs within its Horizon Worlds metaverse. An image of the Genies platform showcasing a fashion collection designed by creator Ian Charms.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

We have some really great advisors as well, all previously at Snap, including Imran Khan, who was the Chief Strategy Officer, Omar Hasan, who was formerly General Counsel, and Jeff Lucas, formerly Head of Sales. Snapchat was able to recruit a huge talent base. I think Snap really personified that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. But some of you will surely say “What about Facebook and Snapchat, who focused on growth first and are clearly successful?” So let’s take a look.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

While VR startups raised plenty of cash in 2016 and 2017, slow headset sales have caused startups to focus on building for a virtual future that might take a couple more years to reach. Early Bird tickets are still on sale for one more week. Matt Miesnieks [ 6D.ai ] and Bruce Wooden [ 6D.ai ] .

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices. Unless you’re SnapChat, Instagram or similar this is probably 3-5 years into your existence.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Or you know the other one — the one where Snapchat lost $2 billion in just one quarter. The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 senior sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business 6 months.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 22, 2016

Less than a month ago, Snapchat opened custom on-demand geofilters to everyone. Industry news was excited, but for how amazing of a product they are, custom Snapchat geofilters have remained stunningly under the radar. Well, Snapchat has made it so that anyone can create and upload a custom filter to any area they want.

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LATechDigest

MAY 9, 2016

SNAPCHAT Aims for $40CPM for Video Ads ( link ). Recode Profiles SNAPCHAT CEO Evan Spiegel ( link ). Winter is Coming — SF PING PONG TABLE Sales Fall to 2-Year Low. Falling ping pong table sales give a peek into the economics of Silicon Valley https://t.co/xccnL8lY9Y LA CITY.ORG Gets a Redesign ( link ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. 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.

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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. And of course SnapChat is relevant for younger video consumers. But ignoring SnapChat for video is a mistake. We built great assets for tracking analytics and royalty management. We built creators tools and website builders. We did a hell of a lot.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. To be clear – I’m not saying huge successes make a VC less likely to be helpful to you – I’m just saying it’s not a guaranteed predictor. Connections? FourSquare.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2018

According to the company, it has named Jeremi Gorman, former Head of Global Advertising Sales for Amazon as its new Chief Business Officer, and also named Jared Grusd, previously CEO of The Huffington Post, as Chief Strategy Officer of the company. Grusd had also served at Spotify, Google, and Oath.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. 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.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Spiegel reported the sales numbers in an interview with Vanity Fair at its Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit yesterday. Evan Spiegel, the CEO of Venice-based Snap , says that so far, it has sold more than 150,000 of its camera-equipped sunglasses--much more than expected by the company.

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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. Yet, the ways that enterprises and businesses are monetizing that user interaction is sort of archaic, compared to the evolution of the technology.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2018

Anyone who has ever bought or sold a home is most likely familiar with the Multiple Listings Service (MLS), the big database of homes for sale used by traditional real estate agents. We've also developed technology to target them, once we've found them, across Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, or Waze, whatever they are using most frequently.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

They want to advertise on Facebook and Instagram, and they want to see what they can do with Waze, Snapchat, and Yelp. The second area, is that while we've grown pretty rapidly, we've grown the headcount in sales and marketing very slowly. We can expand that for our clients, and in doing so enable them to be more successful.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2018

They've really made us the cool kid on the block, which has enabled us to recruit a great team, including a great director of marketing, an amazing product and engineering team, and talent from industry, sales, and operations. The trucking industry, as you mention, isn't great about technology. Lidia Yan: You're right. We're hiring.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I don’t feel like canceling LinkedIn just because occasionally a well-meaning but slightly not-clued-in person from a faraway place wants me to be their personal mentor, answer 3-questions for their high-school entrepreneurship project or take a sales pitch for their recruiting services. Your kids are getting huge!).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2016

Evan Spiegel was thought an idiot for not selling Snapchat for $3 billion. They are great at their respective fields whether they be marketing, sales, programming, PR, whatever. It was not a popular decision at all when Steve Jobs chose to open retail stores. People laughed at Google buying YouTube for $1.65

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The company announced they have secured an exciting national partnership with Amazon to drive sales and disrupt their digital gifting experience. Snapchat Stories are an easy way to send your friend a birthday wish. I chose Venice, California as a great breeding ground for this tool to help all the local businesses,” said Hagger.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Some of the most well-known include Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat, Xiaomi, and Pinterest. The smartest ventures are always courting a multi-billion dollar sale or merger with giants in the industry, including Google (YouTube), Microsoft (Skype), and Facebook (WhatsApp). These are popularly called “unicorns.”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

He spent nearly five years at each of Salesforce.com and Oracle and was an Area VP at Salesforce leading sales efforts at some of the largest clients that Salesforce.com has. Think about Snapchat. The heads of sales operations were emphatic in ways I have seldom experienced. I am not over-selling.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

However, the higher you get within an organization in the sale (and the larger the deal) executives are often looking to “win in the market,” which means growing revenue faster, offering products or services at a lower cost or offering features that their competitors can’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

” Case in point: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, SnapChat. And if your ultimate strategy is a small sale of the business that recovers investment and puts some cash in your pocket – having more time to make this work makes a lot of sense. This is certainly one Path you can take if you have the right background.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2015

Understanding your vulnerability and understanding the power of those with whom you must do business is a very important part of figuring out as a startup how to fit into the broader ecosystem and the art of statecraft is tremendously important in knowing when and how to project power in sales, recruiting, negotiations, fund raising, etc.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

I have three sales guys, who are on commission only. Don’t build your product, test, and try to validate unless what you are validating is a revenue model because Snapchats of the world are one in a billion. Take us for example, we have done tens of thousands of dollars in sales and now we are going to raise money.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Whether you’re starting out on the floor like I did selling a physical product or the CEO of an agency selling the talented employees, you need to know how to make a sale. And he saw it with Snapchat too, but that deal didn’t pan out. The ability to sell something is absolutely necessary to knowing how to run a business at any stage.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

You get to learn everything from marketing to sales to accounting to business development to being able to make pretty websites and graphics. I am not surprised that Snapchat is LA based. Second, the opportunities you get as an entrepreneur are magnitudes greater than any other occupation I can think of.

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