Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Should you be buying key words from search engines, building fabulous web content, blasting out e-mail campaigns, or putting all your efforts into viral videos or social media? For young consumers today, it may be Instagram or Snapchat, while B2B offerings should take a hard look at LinkedIn and other business forums.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Social Media: Snapchat. Developed by four Stanford University students, Snapchat , now located in Venice, is a new way to share moments with friends and family. Representing Southern California industries ranging from movies, TV, web, music, social media, video games, and more, Digital LA’s reach includes more than 40,000 people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

But some of you will surely say “What about Facebook and Snapchat, who focused on growth first and are clearly successful?” Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with well over two billion user accounts, all free. Even Snapchat is now trying hard to generate revenue. So let’s take a look.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

But some of you will surely say “What about Facebook and Snapchat, who focused on growth first and are clearly successful?” Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with more than two billion user accounts, all free. Even Snapchat is now trying hard to generate revenue. So let’s take a look.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2018

Even though my family was reasonably more advanced, they were using a system which was still running on DOS, in black and blue, and was not even web-based. So far we've been very successful in recruiting, with people from Blizzard, Apple, Snapchat, and other great companies. That's when we came up with NEXT Trucking. We're hiring.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

presidential election—has prompted some to question the utopian promise of innovation, especially when it comes to Web companies and cybersecurity. A series of events this year—from the Equifax data breach to the foreign use of social media to influence the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

Final le web london (june 2013) from Mark Suster. And it was convenient for me because we also held our annual London board meeting of DataSift , who helps companies processes and analyze large volumes of social plus enterprise data in realtime. You can of course view the presentation in SlideShare above or download it directly for free here.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

If you think about our behavior on AOL in the early to mid 90’s, people never really left AOL to go on the world-wide-web. Having an all-native interface that’s overlaid on top of the world-wide-web is the ultimate ambition for an internet company. By that I mean: Let me explain.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Think of web vs. mobile. You could look for a VC who has huge wins under his or her belt and therefore has a formula for success. The problem with this is that past successes aren’t always relevant to future ones as the methods and environment of the past may no longer apply. Traditional software vs. SaaS. FourSquare. Everywhere.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

billion invested in Venice, CA-based Snapchat. Included is the $3.5 billion that a non-traditional investor (the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund) invested in San Francisco-based Uber, and the nearly $1.3 The MoneyTree top 10 deals list is below.). A rival survey released Thursday by Dow Jones VentureSource shows that U.S.-based

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2015

On the one hand it denied Facebook from enormous amounts of web traffic that Google controlled at the time but in the longer-run due to network effects of social networks it made Facebook significantly more powerful. What are the chances that SnapChat or WhatsApp would emerge without getting crushed like a bug?

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2014

Those channels still exist today, and get around 200 million views a month--we ended up becoming one of the largest movie networks for video on the web. We published those out of our dot com, and we were also able to convince studios to allow us to publish them on channels on YouTube. Plus, they''ve invested in Los Angeles.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

We launched with a web app, so we are only web-based. Being a serviceable app, do you see more services being provided through the web? 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. Hopefully they do well.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. I don’t need to tell you what else is LA … SnapChat, Whisper, Tinder. All great communication companies.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Uncertainty surrounding this year’s presidential election has kept U.S. IPO activity at a sluggish pace—so sluggish, in fact, that this year could end with the fewest IPOs and the lowest level of capital raised since 2009, according to PitchBook data for the first nine months of 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Facebook was largely a web-based company and none of its revenues were generated on mobile, where many analysts were predicting it would be too hard to replicate the revenue potential of the larger real estate on desktop computers. Think about Snapchat. Tact stated with a user-centric approach from Day 1.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I share a bit on Snapchat. Yes, I can check the mobile web versions (that are actually quite good) if I truly feel the need. My great secret that few over 35 understand is that the best place to truly discover breaking news is Snapchat. I share a bit on Twitter. I share a bit on Instagram. But no more notification messages.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses.

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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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