Want to make your TV show more social? Start with the script
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
Want to make your TV show more social? Start with the script
We usually think of social TV when a show hits the air and viewers start tweeting about it and sharing moments on Facebook. But to leverage social media for TV promotion, networks need to think about how the campaign will fit in to the content itself.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
How You Can Start Using Spotify RIGHT NOW
Spotify's U.S. release is starting as an invite-only for those who want a free account.
But if you're impatient and want to try Spotify right now, you can sign up for one of the two paid premium accounts. Click here to sign up.
All together, Spotify has three plans to choose from. Here's a breakdown of what each plan gets you:
Free: Free accounts are invite-only right now. Free accounts give you access to Spotify's desktop app which lets you stream music (with ads) from a library of about 15 million songs. You also use the desktop app to play songs already stored on your computer. Click here to request and invite.
Unlimited: The Unlimited plan costs $4.99. You get everything in the Free version plus you can stream an unlimited number of songs to your computer without ads. Click here to sign up for an Unlimited account.
Premium: The Premium plan costs $9.99 per month. You get everything in the Unlimited plan plus you can access Spotify on your phone by downloading the iPhone or Android app. You can also download songs to your phone and listen to them online. Click here to sign up for a Premium account.
Want to know more? Click here for our complete tour of Spotify for desktop and mobile
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How You Can Start Using Spotify RIGHT NOW
Monday, July 4, 2011
Art of the Start in Waterloo
Guy Kawasaki is giving an Art of the Start speech for Communitech Friday, October 6th at 11:00 am in Fed Hall on the University of Waterloo campus. Anyone in or near Waterloo (that’s in Canada eh!) might want to go see Guy… he’s a great motivator! See details
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
How to start your own web hosting business in $15
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Hey @Jack, Here's An Easy Product Fix For You To Start With
Jack Dorsey, the inventor of Twitter, is back at the company focusing on product, and has ambitious goals like making the service easier to understand and use for normal people, which is great.
But Dorsey is nothing if not a detail-oriented product visionary, so here's a small product detail that he should pay attention to and fix. It's not much, but it's really annoying and a poor user experience -- exactly the kind of thing we imagine Dorsey won't tolerate.
It's a bit tricky to explain, but bear with us.
Twitter's official iPhone app lets you email tweets. I use that feature very often, because I often email myself links that look interesting. So far so good.
The problem, however, comes from the way Twitter now shortens URL. On Twitter's apps, its official URL shortener t.co doesn't display URLs as http://t.co/XYZ but as the original URL, shortened. So a link to http://www.businessinsider.com/clusterstock might look like this: businessinsider.com/clust... Again, good: instead of an undecipherable bit.ly link, you can have at least an idea of where you're being pointed to.
Here's where it goes wrong: when you email a Twitter-shortened link, the link in the email points to the shortened version and not the actual URL.
For example, this morning we emailed ourselves a tweet to a blog post by Twitter investor Bijan Sabet, and here's what it looks like in our inbox:
The URL to Sabet's post is http://bijansabet.com/post/4220407806/sensitive-vcs-or-something-else. If you click on the link from inside Twitter's app, the shortened link takes you there. But the link in the email takes you to http://bijansabet.com/post/422040780 which is a page that doesn't exist.
See? It's not a huge deal, but it's annoying when it happens and it would be pretty easy to fix. The reason why this happens is because the "email tweet" feature in the iPhone app was implemented before Twitter's new URL shortener, and (I assume) because Twitter employees don't email tweets.
It's the kind of small mistake that tends to slip by when you have an unfocused product organization without strong direction, which seems to have been the case with Twitter for a while. And while things like this aren't a big deal, if there's enough they can add up to an overall user experience that turns off people, especially the non tech savvy normal people Twitter so covets.
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Hey @Jack, Here's An Easy Product Fix For You To Start With
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Should I start on Android or iOS for a mobile app?
Answer added in topic Mobile Location Applications.
If the expense can be absorbed in the startup costs, why not work on development of your app for both platforms simultaneously. If your app launches in the Android Marketplace and the App Store at the same time, you are positioned well for a high adoption rate. You can tailor marketing and promotions to be relevant the OS and drive sales in each category.
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Should I start on Android or iOS for a mobile app?
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Sunday, January 30, 2011
Start Fund: No Big Deal, Business As Usual
Though scarcely 24 hours old, the Yuri Milner/Y Combinator/SV Angel announcement has already been dissected, sliced, diced, and beaten beyond comprehension.
But there are a few salient common sense points missing from the analysis, the most basic of which is: there is a free market in angel investing, and one party has done something bold and surprising in a narrow segment of the market.
Though the tech press would have you believe otherwise, there are worthwhile companies in which to invest at the seed stage outside of Y Combinator and, shockingly, outside of Silicon Valley. Messrs Milner, Graham, and Conway have made a trade (buying Y Combinator startup equity) and hopefully secured a call option (having a seat at the table for subsequent Y Combinator start-up financings) in exchange for lavishing $150k on each Y Combinator company on a blind, no strings attached basis. It’s not really that complicated. What is complicated are people’s perceptions of what impact this might have on the angel investing marketplace.
I’m in the “ho hum” camp. Y Combinator is great, the Valley is great, consumer Web startups are great, etc., etc., etc., but they DO NOT represent anything remotely resembling the investable universe.
I’ve had a pretty good time finding good companies in which to invest both as an angel and as a seed stage venture capitalist without ever touching a Y Combinator company. Really. So the fact that Start Fund is proving cheap capital 43 companies, while interesting, is hardly going to distort the market for angel financings.
I’m not competing with Paul Graham, Ron Conway, or Yuri Milner on a routine basis for deals, and most of the people I hang with in these little places called New York City and Boston aren’t, either. Until Yuri and friends open their checkbooks and start providing this offer to every startup in the US, I’m really not sweating it.
Further, while the gang of three are terrific, I’m not so sure they’re the best investors for every company in every domain. I know quite a few really good investors who can materially help shape the outcome for a start-up by virtue of their particular domain expertise and operating experience, something which people investing blindly across companies on a portfolio basis can’t purport to do. This isn’t to say they’re not awesome; they are. But they are most definitely not the right answer for every company.
Start Fund is simply using Y Combinator as a vehicle for curation and implying that a seat at the table at any price - or at least an unknown price made by a third-party with no price differential for taking first money-in risk - makes it worthwhile. For these guys, I can understand the motivation and as an entrepreneur, I can’t see a logical reason for not taking it as supplement to the money received from Y Combinator program (assuming additional financing is needed at all. If not, no need to incur any incremental dilution). That said, we’re talking about a very small segment of the market representing a tiny amount of the angel and seed stage venture capital deployed in companies across the US.
If startups begin approaching me and asking for uncapped convertibles with no discounts as standard terms, I will view this is a phase in space and time akin to junk bonds trading at 200 bps over Treasuries. My response as an investor to such market conditions? Just say no.
Rationality will inevitably re-enter the market because over time risk and reward must be priced properly, and receiving debt returns for taking equity risk is not sustainable. So let’s not view this development as anything more than it is: an interesting move by a rich (and smart) maverick in a small segment of the startup market. Period. Business as usual. Move on.
This post originally appeared at Information Arbitrage.
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Start Fund: No Big Deal, Business As Usual
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Here's What You Missed Last Night At Start In Paris
Laurent Kretz and Jonathan Benoudiz, the founders of Submate, organize the event, which is already a huge success. Already startups that presented at SIP have gone on to raise venture funding. This month too, the venue was packed to standing room only. Attendees ask questions via Balloon, a twitter and text questions service.
It's a great community event that gives a good look at the early stage web scene in Paris which, as we've noted, is growing very impressively.
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