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recent bookmarks from asterisk2aUK state should pay for housing, food, transport and internet, says report | Business | The Guardian2018-02-16T05:33:08+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/oct/11/uk-universal-basic-services-jonathan-portes
asterisk2aUBI Universal Basic Infrastructure Income commuter urban development urbanisation commuting Socialism Labour Policy SPD air pollution chronic stress economic history UK USA Council housing discretionary spending disposable growth wage Mark Blyth secular stagnation Precariat working poor poverty trap GFC recovery skill acquisition social mobility education ganularer Lebenslauf University College MOOC meritocracy Zufallhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:0c89078fe1f2/AI Is Transforming Google Search. The Rest of the Web Is Next | WIRED2016-02-06T03:15:24+00:00
http://www.wired.com/2016/02/ai-is-changing-the-technology-behind-google-searches/
asterisk2aGoogle Inc. Search augmented intelligence AI artificial prediction anticipation e-commerce Big Data Facebook user behaviour experience acquisition churn Metahttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:92a403fb0cdc/On Instagram and Other Social Media, Redefining ‘User Engagement’ - The New York Times2015-09-23T00:35:46+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/business/media/retailers-use-of-their-fans-photos-draws-scrutiny.html
asterisk2aSocial Media user engagement generated content experience acquisition churn customer empowerment retention UI UX network effect shared interesthttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:e6f053605ff7/Lovoo Flirt-App: Hinweise auf gefälschte Profile - SPIEGEL ONLINE2015-09-22T15:53:22+00:00
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/apps/lovoo-flirt-app-im-verdacht-fake-profile-zu-nutzen-a-1053496.html
asterisk2aLovoo OkCupid Match.com Online Dating Tinder Social Network effect user engagement customer retention acquisition churn generated content MAU Gamificationhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:a00a68ab5c03/Worker confronts M&S chief over 'poverty wages' | Society | The Guardian2015-09-21T02:51:47+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/19/marks-and-spencer-marc-bolland-london-living-wage
asterisk2aCEO pay living wage minimum Service Sector Jobs Niedriglohnsektor Zero Hour Contract Contractor Workers Union Trade John Lewis Gewinnbeteiligung Soziale Marktwirtschaft HR human resources recruiting recruitment people management team neoliberalism neoliberal Wall Street shareholder value profit maximisation customer experience empowerment retention Retail brick and mortar business e-commerce Amazon Branding brand awareness acquisition Blue Ocean differentiate differentiation PR spin doctor reframing framing marketing Positioning Proposition Core Product ecommerce pure playhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:b286c6f57ea5/Inside Bayern Munich: Business of Sport Special - YouTube2015-09-18T06:17:47+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I4Gj78yjCA
asterisk2abusiness of sport soccer World Cup FIFA UEFA Premier League DFB elite sports athlete IOC doping capitalism brand awareness marketing advertisement advertising TV pageviews eyeballs user engagement customer empowerment experience acquisition churn Gary Vaynerchukhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:766109121c5e/What is Angela Ahrendts doing at Apple? - Fortune2015-09-14T01:09:27+00:00
http://fortune.com/2015/09/10/angela-ahrendts-apple/
asterisk2aAngela Ahrendts Retail brick and mortar business Apple aspirational product marketing user experience pure play e-commerce Tim Cook engagement customer UI UX CEO Leadership people management team service acquisition churn communication Positioning Value Proposition added creation emotion advertisement advertising status anxiety community R&D STEM Research IP intellectual property differentiate differentiationhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:406cf3353b40/The Math Behind SaaS Startup Valuation | TechCrunch2015-08-30T01:15:34+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/28/the-math-behind-saas-startup-valuation/
asterisk2aSAAS CAC LTCV business model subscription customer acquisition user churn retention metrics KPI Start-Up lesson advice accounting freemium education MBA accelerated learninghttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:f510854312cf/Pando: Do SpoonRocket and GoodEggs signal the beginning of the on demand food contraction?2015-08-27T14:30:29+00:00
https://pando.com/2015/08/26/do-spoonrocket-and-goodeggs-signal-beginning-demand-food-contraction/
asterisk2aconvenience Uber on-demand Postmates Marketplace FoodPanda Delivery Hero Rocket Internet burn rate growth round customer acquisition CAC retention LTCV user churn 1099 Economy Gig self-employmenthttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:62f2c7c7d958/Why Billion-Dollar Valuations Don’t Matter | TechCrunch2015-08-25T22:21:17+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/25/why-billion-dollar-valuations-dont-matter/#.qy0vrq:ySLt
asterisk2aUnicorn SAAS Slack DropBox Box Venture Capital Silicon Valley growth round 2015 KPI metrics accounting user churn customer retention upselling acquisition CAC Decacorn on-demand convenience Marketplace business model Product/Market Fit Share Economy middleman scale economies of FOMO hunt for yield Start-Up advice lesson burn rate runway Homejoy Net Promoter Score consumer product B2C B2Bhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:af381e77a133/How To Get 1 Million Subscribers - YouTube2015-08-25T13:46:30+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fknGY6Y-rps
asterisk2a> Product developers & investors should think about the cognitive cost of their products. The cognitive cost very often can be much higher than the financial cost. Products with a low cognitive cost are those where the technology fades away and dont require a consumers ongoing attention. bit.ly/1Nz0veO // "Don't make me think." << book, UI UX mantra. // Photo-filter-app vs photo-editing-app vs video-editing-ai-augmented-intelligence-app that have popped up. podcasting. EDM // what has lots of overhead & sometimes really disappointing user experience? Skype, Windows, FriendFeed, Twitter?(niche compared 2 FB). Q&A youtu.be/6xVdM0QJq6Y]]>Casey Neistat freedom of expression creative destruction Beme Vlogging vlog YouTube Vine Instagram Periscope Twitch justin.tv Qik writing Video mainstream filter bubble editor Reddit 4chan storytelling Music Industry Indie Hollywood content discovery distribution model TV Reality scripted-reality television painting digital economy marginal cost economics abundance critics Artist graphic artists cognitive friction frictionless Product/Market Fit MVP Start-Up lesson advice consumer product UI UX user engagement generated experience churn hook customer empowerment retention acquisition Podcast podcasting Platform creator The Wars Snapchat SMS WhatsApphttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:037b3e46d57e/Growth vs Retention – AVC2015-08-22T21:21:08+00:00
http://avc.com/2015/07/growth-vs-retention/
asterisk2auser churn customer acquisition Product/Market Fit MVP business strategy product Start-Up lesson advice burn rate runway Homejoy distribution model discovery content Net Promoter Score word of mouth Tribe 1000 True Fans UI UX experience engagement retention service SAAS marketing growth round cost center short-term view thinking feedbackhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:1989b43486ca/Online Lenders Facing Marketing War — The Information2015-08-19T18:37:34+00:00
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/online-lenders-facing-marketing-war
asterisk2aFinTech customer acquisition NPL wonga burn rate traction word of mouth Net Promoter Score banking runway LTCV marketing advertisinghttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:7f8ae9ac3718/India's Snapdeal raises $500m from international investors - BBC News2015-08-19T15:25:00+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33984134
asterisk2ae-commerce Flipkart Snapchat India China Amazon commodity business commoditization BRIC Developing World emerging middle class Frontier Markets growth round Venture Capital customer acquisition LTCV retention user churn burn rate runwayhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:3e3177bd2343/Pando: Lessons from the startup graveyard2015-08-18T15:22:13+00:00
https://pando.com/2015/08/17/lessons-startup-graveyard/
asterisk2aStart-Up lesson advice burn rate runway MVP Product/Market Fit Minimal Viable Product traction user churn acquisition customer retention Net Promoter Score word of mouth Social Media KPI OKRhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:4ea056498136/Maker Studios May Not Hit Disney Earn-Out Goals | Re/code2015-08-15T07:23:40+00:00
http://recode.net/2015/08/14/disney-and-maker-studios-big-deal-may-be-smaller-than-they-thought/
asterisk2aDisney Maker Studios M&A Mark Suster Start-Up lesson advice acquisition YouTube Facebook Video Newsfeed content discovery distribution business model pageviews CPM The Warshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:a74ad9235089/Pando: “Video is an unfair advantage you either join or lose” [SPONSORED]2015-08-12T05:52:20+00:00
https://pando.com/2015/08/11/video-unfair-advantage-you-either-join-or-lose-sponsored/
asterisk2aNewsfeed Facebook Video Meerkat Periscope YouTube Vine Instagram storytelling user behaviour consumption consumer consumerist consumerism snacking Entertainment Escapeism native content advertising branded The Wars attention span generated experience churn mobile first homescreen phone engagement customer retention acquisition marketing brand awareness advertisementhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:4c3cf5bd675e/Adobe study finds there are 198 million adblocking users, growing 47% YoY and that the advertising industry will lose $21bn in 2015. : technology2015-08-10T19:27:13+00:00
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3gfyf1/adobe_study_finds_there_are_198_million/
asterisk2a> advertisers have no to add value ... One Redditor writes: "Don't loose more money and time to complain about it, you have to adapt your distribution systems, price and mainly your product quality to attract more paying customers."]]>AdBlock advertising business model friction frictionless pageviews CPM content marketing native value creation Core Product Proposition added user experience behaviour attention span engagement churn customer retention acquisition brand awareness communication PR public relations advertisementhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:febbccb12eae/Retention Is the Key | Hacker News2015-08-10T01:34:54+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10015416
asterisk2aSAAS customer retention Start-Up lesson advice acquisition user churn lifetime valuehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:3e78e41e8019/Why Homejoy Failed … And The Future Of The On-Demand Economy | TechCrunch2015-08-02T21:48:25+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/31/why-homejoy-failed-and-the-future-of-the-on-demand-economy/
asterisk2aHomejoy on-demand convenience Share Economy 1099 Service Sector Jobs marketplace commodity business commoditization Niedriglohnsektor burn rate runway customer acquisition user churn middleman repeathttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:97a329dfe4db/The Traction Book: 5 Steps To Traction & Business Growth2015-07-24T21:17:16+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYbNVL6Y2LM
asterisk2abook Start-Up lesson advice traction growth hacking hacker viral coefficient Net Promoter Score Product/Market Fit MVP Core Product Value Proposition Minimal Viable marketing advertisement affiliate content Lean A/B Testing channel distribution strategy conversion user acquisition PR public relations brand awareness engagement generated churn customer retentionhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:4da9360b8828/Fear Trumps Greed in Silicon Valley as Some Venture Firms Hedge - Bloomberg Business2015-07-20T23:07:30+00:00
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-20/fear-trumps-greed-in-silicon-valley-as-some-venture-firms-hedge
asterisk2aSilicon Valley burn rate runway cash flow cash-is-king hunt for yield distortion ZIRP NIRP QE growth round SPV war talent Private Market Equity Hedge Fund Mutual bubble USA Fed Taper asset allocation Angel Investor Seed business model advertising VC Venture Capital Greed FOMO speculative bubbles speculation SoftBank IPO NASDAQ A Unicorn Decacorn termsheet liquidation preferences exit strategy M&A acquisition acquihire acqui-hire cycle plan investment confidence consumer leverage debtoverhang irrational exuberancehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:174e7699ef23/Homejoy Is Shutting Down At The End Of The Month | TechCrunch2015-07-18T14:30:10+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/17/homejoy-is-shutting-down-at-the-end-of-the-month/
asterisk2a> THUS [Freemium] the Free On Phone Version 4 closetphile (wont cost u much except dev) & the Customer paying 4 Cloud Convenience,Security, more features (ie analytics). &! bit.ly/1CSygUA]]>Start-Up lesson advice on-demand convenience scale economies of Venture Capital burn rate runway business model closetphile wardrobemalfunction freemium Homejoy added value creation Perception Silicon Valley Unicorn speculative bubbles speculation Appification mobile homescreen first phone irrational exuberance Rocket Internet Uber Lyft customer acquisition cost retention lifetime SAAS Postmates Service Sector Jobs 1099 Economy uncertainty self-employment Niedriglohnsektor Niedriglohn marketplace efficiencies commodity commoditization price sensitive insensitive sensitivity behavioral economics finance status symbol anxiety socioeconomic social craigslist sustainable sustainability metrics KPI Circa Share marketshare unithttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:b6a92bfce184/Helpling: Putzportal-Chef Franke über Preise und Festanstellungen - SPIEGEL ONLINE2015-07-08T20:18:47+00:00
http://www.spiegel.de/karriere/berufsleben/helpling-putzportal-chef-franke-ueber-preise-und-festanstellungen-a-1041366.html
asterisk2aRocket Internet Helpling on-demand convenience Share Economy self-employment precarious work Precariat working poor Niedriglohn Niedriglohnsektor Service Sector Jobs 1099 marketplace efficiencies Uber Contractor Zero Hour Contract labour market economics underemployed employability employabilitie uncertainty Sozialer Abstieg Aufstocker minimum wage living commodity business commoditization Universal Basic Income tax credit child code free Homejoy Venture Capital user acquisition LTV model status symbol anxiety socioeconomic social squeezed middle class Soziale Marktwirtschaft warfare job creation Minijob Zeitarbeit Leiharbeit vocational education policy added valuehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:9311c4d54585/Taylor Swift pulls 1989 album from Apple Music - BBC News2015-06-21T21:12:40+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33216778
asterisk2aTaylor Swift Spotify freemium business model Music Industry 360-music-contract Apple subscription The Content Wars user acquisitionhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:cec1ee12face/Are we too nice when a company fails? Out of money and fresh ideas, Homejoy and CustomMade find cushy landings | PandoDaily2015-05-28T19:40:25+00:00
http://pando.com/2015/05/27/are-we-trying-to-be-too-nice-when-a-company-fails/
asterisk2aacquisition acquihire acqui-hire burn rate runway Silicon Valley HomeJoy Handy Helpling operations on-demand conveniencehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:5098e7e64143/[WMD 2015] Zenefits, Matt Epstein "From $0 to $21M ARR: Our 5 Biggest Marketing F***Ups" - YouTube2015-05-15T18:17:07+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDnddmAxUNA
asterisk2aMarketing SAAS B2B Zenefits Start-Up lesson advice HR human resources customer acquisition customer-outreachhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:6d25c4ef6362/Cloud HR Startup Zenefits Is Looking To Raise A Giant New Round Of Funding | TechCrunch2015-04-22T17:44:57+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/21/zenefits-400-million/#.qy0vrq:TJeG
asterisk2a COO/Accounting/HR // youtu.be/7KmjzfK3f38 min 11 Start-up struggle, figuring it out along the way but having a sense // (2015) youtu.be/8DwlS_6jLAo "Hyperscaling Inside Sales" &! YC W2013 application video - youtu.be/-S83fysRwn4]]>valuation Silicon Valley Zenefits HR Unicorn growth round enterprise 2.0 SAAS SPV business model customer acquisition user churn marketing Box DropBox Salesforce ZenDesk experience Software Is Eating The World operations freemium scaling LTV scale human resources hiring Core Product Value Proposition saleshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:770d5b737b5f/The Illusion of Product/Market Fit for SaaS Companies - Feld Thoughts2015-04-16T01:47:03+00:00
http://www.feld.com/archives/2015/01/illusion-product-market-fit-saas-companies.html
asterisk2a $1m. You disrupted someone a few years ago which is what caused you to discover product/market fit. Don’t be confused about the world – someone else is gunning for you now that you are the big player in whatever segment you are in. Every time you work on something new, whether it’s a new feature, a new product, or a new product line, recognize that you are searching for incremental product/market fit. The search is a continuous and never ending quest. Don’t confuse illusion with reality.]]>Product/Market Fit user churn acquisition Start-Up lesson advice entrepreneurship entrepreneur entrepreneurial incrementalism incremental piecemeal approach feedback loop word of mouth Net Promoter Scorehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:94d4d99b751c/A Year Later, $19 Billion For WhatsApp Doesn’t Sound So Crazy | TechCrunch2015-02-20T03:48:06+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/19/crazy-like-a-facebook-fox/?ncid=rss&cps=gravity_1730_5462687593192973030
asterisk2aWhatsApp Snapchat Instagram Pinterest Facebook Twitter Mark Zuckerberg Yahoo! Google Microsoft SMS Wireless Carrier MMS Newsfeed trend trends M&A acquisitions acquisition scale Tumblr mobile first homescreen phone user experience behaviour Phablet AOLhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:5cd4bce330b4/Post Seed Conference 2014 - How to Think About the M&A Landscape - YouTube2015-02-15T22:42:13+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS06062YrCQ
asterisk2aStart-Up lesson advice M&A synergy acqui-hire acquisitions acquihire acquisitionhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:24a1adf38383/The just maybe unsinkable Dick Costolo | PandoDaily2015-02-14T20:02:08+00:00
http://pando.com/2015/02/12/the-just-maybe-unsinkable-dick-costolo/
asterisk2aTwitter Dick Costolo Product/Market Fit user experience Product Design MVP Minimal Viable behaviour acquisition churn Visionhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:4bbd28bd797b/Introducing Place Tips in News Feed | Facebook Newsroom2015-01-30T03:11:21+00:00
http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/01/introducing-place-tips-in-news-feed/
asterisk2a> "In late 2013, Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley and his leadership team decided it was time to rethink things. If the company was founded today, what would the app look like? What would the experience feel like?" // &! http://taylordavidson.com/2014/apps &! http://features.en.softonic.com/why-single-use-apps-like-yo-could-take-over-your-smartphone]]>Facebook geolocation location foursquare Yelp Start-Up lesson advice differentiation differentiate features feature Big Data Appification Single-Use App unbundeling user experience behaviour acquisition UI UX business strategy focus focused simplification simplicity product management Product/Market Fit Design Minimal Viable multi-product company Officer discovery curationhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:c9d47a4dc447/Amazon: Warum Jeff Bezos Milliarden-Verluste kalt lassen - SPIEGEL ONLINE2014-12-06T22:18:23+00:00
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/amazon-warum-jeff-bezos-milliarden-verluste-kalt-lassen-a-1006451.html
asterisk2aAmazon Jeff Bezos ROI cash flow Start-Up lesson advice growth round hacker hacking investment business Marktanteile customer acquisition retention user churn short-term thinking view long-term Wall Street oligopoly oligopol profit maximisation AWS Wall-Mart Google Microsoft Alibaba Rakutenhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:14de0a6b8a0f/Uber Continues To Bleed Cash In India To Pick Up Market Share | TechCrunch2014-11-26T12:57:56+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/26/uber-is-literally-sucking-the-money-out-of-its-rivals-in-india/?ncid=rss&cps=gravity
asterisk2a> "Our Sales and Marketing costs are killing us. [...] Hortonworks [...] $33.4 million in total revenue in the first three quarters of 2014, but its S&M costs were $44.6 million in the same period. New Relic, [...] revenues of $63 million in the year before March 31, with $58 million in sales. [...] Box, $124 million in revenue in the year ending January 31, but $171 million in S&M costs. [...] [ Same with FireEye & SalesForce ] [ Other case; Slack w high Net Promoter Score (Product) & mix of B2B and B2C case. &! bit.ly/SXRliN from a16z]]>Uber burn rate freemium business model subscription user acquisition churn Box.com Square profit margin Start-Up lesson advice Venture Capital growth round Net Promoter Score gross margins SaaS B2B hacker hacking lifetime value cost of aquisitionhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:8459690b11e5/(12) What are the early symptoms that a startup is going to fail? - Quora2014-10-26T22:15:10+00:00
http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-early-symptoms-that-a-startup-is-going-to-fail?share=1
asterisk2aStart-Up lesson advice Lean traction Net Promoter Score user experience churn acquisition viral coefficient Minimal Viable Product Product/Market Fithttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:981eab19f07a/Sascha Lobo über die Macht der Mädchen im Internet - SPIEGEL ONLINE2014-10-15T20:07:46+00:00
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/sascha-lobo-ueber-die-macht-der-maedchen-im-internet-a-997240.html
asterisk2aSocial Media WhatsApp Tinder Snapchat Instagram Pinterest Silicon Valley Emoticon Millennials generationy Venmo user experience Platform utility adoption churn acquisition babyboomershttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:642cf29b49a7/Twitter Might Have to Buy Its Way to Growth. Here’s a List of Possible Targets. | Re/code2014-10-04T12:10:06+00:00
http://recode.net/2014/10/03/twitter-might-have-to-buy-its-way-to-growth-heres-a-list-of-possible-targets/
asterisk2aTwitter M&A Wall Street Platform growth capitalism profit maximisation user acquisition churn Soundcloudhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:7ca9254aadf8/Amazon Pounces On Twitch After Google Balks Due To Antitrust Concerns2014-08-26T16:43:28+00:00
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2014/08/25/amazon-pounces-on-twitch-after-google-balks-due-to-antitrust-concerns/
asterisk2a> http://pando.com/2014/08/25/twitch-ceo-on-jilting-goolge-amazon-shares-our-long-term-values-but-does-it-really/ !! // Google failed @social & human aspect again. Twitch better than YouTube. + tcrn.ch/1tyKLNv + HN - http://bit.ly/1tDvj2T]]>Twitch Google Amazon YouTube Platform antitrust Yahoo! M&A Jeff Bezos acquisition advertising engagement Video streaming attention span advertisement marketing audience user customer corporate culture values personal Start-Up lesson advice community freemium Entertainment eSport gaming competitive network effect branding Brand Social Media beings creativity Google+https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:d773f4d8d1b8/A Look Back At Yahoo’s Flickr Acquisition For Lessons Today | TechCrunch2014-08-24T06:51:23+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/23/flickrs-acquisition-9-years-later/
asterisk2aFlickr Yahoo! M&A Start-Up lesson advice incomplete information complexity unknown unknowns acquisitions acquisition Silicon Valleyhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:18eafa4f77d5/What Facebook’s Messenger debacle says about the company… both the brilliant and the terrible | PandoDaily2014-08-15T03:43:39+00:00
http://pando.com/2014/08/12/has-facebook-already-caved-on-the-stand-alone-messaging-app/
asterisk2a> But right now, they are all on going parallel experiments that are ultimately competing to be the thing we open the most everyday when we are waiting in line, killing time, or want to shout out a video, photo or emoji to a pal.]]>Facebook brand public image markzuckerberg corporate values governance culture Internet Privacy Newsfeed PR communication language relations Snapchat WhatsApp Oculus Rift Instagram strategy acquisition acqui-hire acquihire war for talent HR human resources Twitter user hack mobile first homescreenhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:4a83cf062a22/58,000 Retweets Later: The Story of Dropbox's Most Successful Tweet » The View From Seed | NextView Venture2014-07-18T13:33:16+00:00
http://nextviewventures.com/blog/5800-retweets-dropbox-most-successful-tweet/
asterisk2agrowth hacker Lean Start-Up lesson advice marketing Social Media ROI Dropbox playbook PayPal customer acquisition userhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:039ed7a1f8da/Drowning in venture capital, mobile startups are waging unsustainable price wars | PandoDaily2014-07-03T00:58:11+00:00
http://pando.com/2014/07/02/drowning-in-venture-capital-mobile-startups-are-waging-unsustainable-price-wars/
asterisk2aStart-Up lesson advice Lean VC Venture Capital hunt for yield growth round Uber Lyft Fab.com sustainable sustainability customer acquisition retention 2014 asset bubble Silicon Valley Palo Alto San Francisco business model plan user experience expectations Amazon Zappos free freemium SAAS on-demand mobile services Industry first X Groupon Berlin Scene Europe London me too price war commoditization commodity differentiation differentiate brand brands branding indefensible values defensible management economics frictionless friction rackspace training your crutch hacker traction Value Proposition long-term thinking viewhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:3502ab5bb171/Founder School with McKinsey - YouTube2014-06-28T18:11:55+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QSmdIPTOIo
asterisk2aStart-Up lesson advice business math management shareholder value stakeholder valuation scale scaling growth hacker economics model revenues revenue Silicon Valley long-term thinking short-term customer acquisition retention monetization monetize monetisation plan stifling execution Vision product Product/Market Fit Design multi-product company patent trolls innovation stealth trollhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:8c2599454873/DLD NYC 14 - Winners/Losers in a Digital Age (Scott Galloway) - YouTube2014-05-23T01:30:48+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMU8YvOjRXc
asterisk2a> “They want Jimmy and they want Dre,” said the source. “He’s got fashion and culture completely locked up.” ( http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/22/apples-beats-deal-is-happening-and-its-a-dre-acquihire/ ) + !!! v=NP0P2BT0vTc !!!]]>Apple Pivot IBM Microsoft Transition Information Society Industrial policy Makers skill-biased technological change capital skills skill Career Politicians folly error public Product/Market Fit Product Design management differentiation differentiate brands branding Brand Gary Vaynerchuk acqui-hire acquisitions acquisition acquihire status symbol social Wall Street Strategy execution Focus focused Silicon Valley Fetish distraction Steve Jobs margin commodity business commoditization technology history Moore's Law competitive advantage competitiveness Competition comparative comparative-advantage Google Nexus HTC Lenovo Samsung Nokia digitalnatives digital economy Age natives stevejobs Vision Imagination creativity value creation Mobile Creative Creatives destruction disposable income Start-Up lesson advice entrepreneurial entrepreneurship innovation innovator Venturehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:a919a2e96fa4/Dropbox Buys Bubbli, Will Integrate The 3D Photo Tech Into Its Photo Service | TechCrunch2014-05-21T15:31:15+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/20/dropbox-buys-bubbli-will-integrate-its-3d-photo-tech-into-dropboxs-photo-service/
asterisk2a> Dropbox acquires Bubbli (iOS), a startup that built tech for people to capture 360° views w/ their phones; will integrate tech w/ @dropbox; raised $2M from August Capital - Link]]>friction Platform Open Dropbox Cloudstorage googledocs googledrive Google Drive Microsoft Flickr Picasa Facebook Instagram Twitter Vine YouTube Soundcloud acquisitions acquisition acquihire acqui-hire customer freemium business model publishing 2.0 Wordpresshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:32e5452667b2/Pfizer and AstraZeneca: Deal or no deal | The Economist2014-05-15T17:44:06+00:00
http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21601868-future-britains-drugs-industry-depends-more-merger-deal-or-no-deal
asterisk2a> once you are a public company, your options to facilitate growth are hugely curtailed do to the short-term thinking of money, crony capitalism >> Wall Street. /// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AstraZeneca#Pfizer_takeover_bid + http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27391124 + http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27309851 | BRITISH INTEREST IS & SHOULD BE MARKET PLURALITY. From May 7th. http://bit.ly/QNgGtz - 7 days later http://bit.ly/1k5sGCg | this case; fiduciary responsibility = short-term thinking]]>market plurality Pfizer AstraZeneca UK big pharma pharmaceutical industry oligopol oligopoly crony capitalism corporate governance WallStreet growth though acquisition M&A mergers merger through Career Politicians business management short-term thinking long-term public policy antitrust Competition collusion research medical health trust trustagent confidence Science R&D European Commission Europe regulators regulation transparency accountability davidcameron general election 2015 GeorgeOsborne Lobbying lobbyist lobby interest groups national job productivity skill-biased technological change skill skills capital knowledge worker White-collar Blue-collar Mobile Creative Creatives fiduciary responsibility greed stakeholder shareholder unknown unknowns unintended consequences complexity human progress humanity post-antibiotic era external threats externalaties externalityhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:19ee3fe76d5e/Marketing Can No Longer Rely on the Funnel - Mark Bonchek , and Cara France - Harvard Business Review2014-05-09T10:51:47+00:00
http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/05/marketing-can-no-longer-rely-on-the-funnel/
asterisk2aadvertisement advertising marketing Sales Funnel Social Media e-commerce Salesforce affiliate future of business intent consideration targeting re-targeting Twitter Facebook Pinterest Consumerism consumerist tastemakers advocates Evangelist Sephora engagement conversion customer experience sharing currency product awareness brand Gary Vaynerchuk content word mouth influencer influence context value creation freemium monetization monetisation model empowerment acquisition retention service outreach amplification marketers ruin everything millennials generationy bullshit detector Google AdSense banner ads noise home screen relationship non-linear world Personal brandinghttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:b461848a46cd/Yahoo’s China Syndrome Now Morphs Into WWMD? (What Will Marissa Do?) | Re/code2014-05-09T06:58:21+00:00
http://recode.net/2014/05/08/yahoos-china-syndrome-now-morphs-into-wwmd-what-will-marissa-do/
asterisk2aYahoo! WallStreet value creation conflict of interest Marissa Mayer organic growth acqui-hire acquisitions customer acquisition acquihire M&A AOLhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:4ae1d61508dc/Bob Iger Explains Why Disney Bought Maker Studios | Re/code2014-05-08T07:42:32+00:00
http://recode.net/2014/05/06/bob-iger-explains-why-disney-bought-maker-studios/
asterisk2a> “We think there’s a huge marketing opportunity for this company,” Iger said.]]>Maker Studios YouTube content distribution advertisement advertising network Sales Funnel PR communication waltdisney Disney acqui-hire acquisition customer acquihire war for talent Top war-for-talent skill-biased technological change skills short-form creator micro audience Big Data attention span marketing Millennials generationy digital natives analyticshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:b720765f028a/In ridesharing, it all comes down to the Benjamins | PandoDaily2014-05-03T17:18:11+00:00
http://pando.com/2014/04/11/in-ridesharing-it-all-comes-down-to-the-benjamins/
asterisk2a> "search pricing" [enabling price elasticity of supply (of caps).] // But in the weeks prior to Lyft announcing its huge Series D, it was able to roll out Happy Hour pricing — something Uber has not yet done. As a cherry on top, it slashed its rates 20 percent in all markets after wrapping up the Series D.]]>Uber Flywheel Lyft dynamic pricing search ryanair economy airlines Supply and Demand consumer product customer retention acquisition cost microeconomies microeconomics economics price elasticity of disrupting markets disruption marketplace public transportation inefficiencies efficiency market fithttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:6920a7958e4a/Sexism sucks less once you’ve raised $56 million | PandoDaily2014-05-03T17:05:40+00:00
http://pando.com/2014/04/14/sexism-sucks-less-once-youve-raised-56-million/
asterisk2aeveryday sexism sexismus VC Venture Capital Silicon Valley Start-Up Start-Ups GitHub Female Founders entrepreneurship entrepreneur e-commerce full-stack customer retention acquisition beauty industry productshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:304a5a8e56b0/Why your dinky little startup is worth billions of dollars - Quartz2014-04-27T23:22:52+00:00
http://qz.com/202181/why-your-dinky-little-startup-is-worth-billions-of-dollars/
asterisk2aFacebook Yahoo! AOL Twitter Microsoft Google acqui-hire acquisitions acquisition Uber Airbnb growth round Venture Capital Technology strategic strategy VC Silicon Valley acquihire seedround seedfunding Instagram Snapchat WhatsApp Google+ Moore's Law B2B C2B marketplace industry Oculus Rift virtual reality 3D printinghttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:b3e924749047/Twitter Acquires Android Lockscreen App Cover, Moves Deeper Into Mobile Services | TechCrunch2014-04-14T18:16:31+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/07/twitter-acquires-android-lockscreen-app-cover-moves-deeper-into-mobile-services/
asterisk2a> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cplq7qotDIk // http://homescreenproject.com/post/49044240848/gary-vaynerchuks-home-screen-so-many-unread-text // glancing on it many times a day just to ... ] “If that changes down the road, we’ll provide another update here,” the founders Todd Jackson, Gordon Luk and Edward Ho note in a blog post announcing the deal. You can read Josh’s review of how Cover works here. Cover is being somewhat cryptic in discussing what it will be working on at Twitter. “Twitter, like Cover, believes in the incredible potential of Android,” they write. “They share our vision that smartphones can be a lot smarter — more useful and more contextual — and together we’re going to make that happen. We’ll be building upon a lot of what makes Cover great, and we’re thrilled to create something even better at Twitter.”]]>homepage homescreen Smartphone mobilephone Apple iOS Android Google Twitter Facebook Gary Vaynerchuk acqui-hire acquisition acquihire war for talent Top war-for-talent Social Media Entertainment Escapeism Utility utilities Microsoft Yahoo! science study society attention spanhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:179814630c25/The Secret Shame of an Unacquired Techie -- Daily Intelligencer2014-04-14T06:01:31+00:00
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/04/secret-shame-of-an-unacquired-techie.html
asterisk2aacqui-hire acquihire start-up Google creativity Design gender gap politics asymmetry Kevin Rose HR PR public relations acquisition engineer developer unintended consequences unknown unknowns inequality income Technology UI UX implosion hubris stereotype entrepreneurship entrepreneur everyday sexism sexismus feminism feminist victim role opfer rolle psychology social science status western society disparity equality discrimination Silicon Valley web development ageism Supply and Demand human resources compensation skill skillshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:1acfea39f20a/After Acquisition, OpenTable Plans To Shut Down Ness On April 21 | TechCrunch2014-03-23T16:26:12+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/21/opentable-ness-shutdown/
asterisk2aacquihire Acqui-Hire acquisition acquisitions technology Start-Up Startup Facebook Twitter Google war for talenthttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:0808343f44d4/Skype: The Numbers Behind Microsoft's Acquisition2011-05-16T00:37:14+00:00
http://www.businessinsider.com/numbers-microsoft-skype-deal-2011-5
asterisk2amicrosoft skype acquisition M&Ahttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:9c26c9095808/Mentor Picks: Google Opens Up Wallet - India Chief Mentor - WSJ2010-05-06T19:11:33+00:00
http://blogs.wsj.com/india-chief-mentor/2010/05/06/mentor-picks-google-opens-up-wallet/
asterisk2agoogle strategy strategic M&A acquisition startups 2010https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:41f3866852d5/Apple Continues To Morph Into The Chocolate Factory. Expect Fewer Gobstopper Leaks.2010-04-28T19:48:22+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/27/apple-intrinsity-a4-chip/
asterisk2aapple acquisition technology Google microsoft competitive advantage strategy stevejobshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:c44fa92e6b33/Dear Foursquare: This Is Not the Right Time to Sell2010-04-18T10:17:30+00:00
http://mashable.com/2010/04/17/dear-foursquare/
asterisk2afoursquare Yahoo Google M&A VC venturecapital growth acquisition integration culture businesshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:f22f9a67e1ed/Early Adopters: 5 Ways To Get Users To Your New Website2009-12-17T17:57:12+00:00
http://www.startbreakingfree.com/1322/early-adopters-5-ways-to-get-users-to-your-new-website/
asterisk2aacquisition customer reach SEO user web marketing startup business ugc networks network curation early-adopter mechanicshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:b5b561407d8f/MySpace Close To Acquiring iMeem2009-11-22T23:22:58+00:00
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/16/myspace-close-to-acquiring-imeem/
asterisk2amyspace streaming acquisition radio music imeemhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:9c412df1e769/