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Why Video Discovery Startups All Fail   —  Sad to see Cory Booker's startup Waywire pivoting to “Pinterest for video” after starting with much bigger ambitions.  Prediction: they'll struggle because video discovery just isn't a venture scale business.  —  My previous role leading product …
Apr 18, 2013, 8:05 PMIn context
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Other Reasons Nick Bilton Seeing FB Decline   —  NYTimes columnist Nick Bilton wrote today that he's seeing massive declines in organic Facebook engagement on his posts.  He cites last year receiving hundreds of likes per post but now having 1/10th that despite growing subscribers 20x.
Mar 3, 2013, 2:00 PMIn context
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Are Medium & Quora Just the Rebirth of Content Farms?   —  Three years ago a terrible collection of beasts rose from the sea and threatened the Internet we love so dear.  These “content farms” churned out low quality prose in SEO-friendly formats to try and garner traffic from Google and other search engines.
Jan 28, 2013, 12:00 AMIn context
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Trying to be the one true social graph is like trying to hold water in your fist   —  Facebook needed to buy Instagram because it was creating a mobile-first photo-centric social network.  Snapchat is interesting to Facebook because it's creating a mobile-first ephemeral content social network.
Dec 31, 2012, 12:05 AMIn context
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Uber NYC & the Surge: Right, Wrong, Lessons Learned   —  While my hometown of NYC recovers from the aftermath of #Sandy, there's been a different verbal maelstrom out West - the question of whether Uber NYC's surge pricing is gouging or simply an effort to balance supply and demand.
Nov 3, 2012, 3:50 PMIn context
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The Death of Social Proof   —  Social proof is dying as a startup differentiation heuristic during fundraising.  Why?  —  A) Blame Angellist for an Advisor Bubble  —  Every company I see has some roster of advisors and/or soft-circled seed investors already committed.
Jun 6, 2012, 1:55 AMIn context
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“Instagram for Video”   —  Ok, I usually don't write about video other than commenting on YouTube because (a) I'm inherently biased and (b) I don't want my opinions to be taken as representing the view of my company.  But.... since there's so much heat around the question of “Instagram for video” …
Apr 27, 2012, 10:50 PMIn context
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Last saturday i woke up mad - a #BlackoutSOPA origin story   —  Last saturday i read that news networks were undercovering the SOPA/PIPA debate - in fact there was evidence that the networks owned by SOPA/PIPA supporters were less eager to cover the topic than their independent colleagues.
Jan 15, 2012, 6:05 AMIn context
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Sorry Mike, Facebook could reboot and we'd mess it up again   —  Michael Arrington wrote a compelling piece suggesting Facebook's continued success is dependent upon allowing users to wipe their friend slate clean and rebuild their graph.  This second time around he suggests …
Jan 7, 2012, 12:10 PMIn context
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You don't get to decide if you're a platform   —  Seeing lots of startups pitch themselves as a platform play right out of the gate.  The reality is, you don't get to tell people you're a platform, they tell you.  The platforms we think about today (e.g. Twitter, FB, Android/iOS) …
Jan 5, 2012, 4:05 AMIn context

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