5. What is a startup?
Idea, Team, Finance,
Product, Marketing
• Companies with a limited history.
• A great number of dot-com companies
were founded.
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6. “It helped that we were already in Bootup Labs, a startup
incubator in Vancouver, when we had this idea. Basically we
already had the infrastructure in place needed to start a
company (legal counsel, accounting, etc.), so we mostly
focused on building a great product.”
Mircea Pasoi, co-founder, Summify
@mirceapasoi
Monday, November 28, 2011
7. Media startups
New technologies create
new opportunities & low
barrier to entry
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8. Important resources
http://trendwatching.com/
http://www.entrepreneur.com/
http://www.techcrunch.com/
http://www.alexa.com/
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10. New generation of
social media start-ups
• Content/story telling focused.
• Built on existing social connections.
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11. Facebook Connect
• 1 million developers and entrepreneurs from
more than 180 countries.
• 550,000 active applications.
• 250,000 websites.
• 100 million users engage with Facebook on
external websites every month.
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12. From Creation & Connection
to Curation
A future trend toward
customization and curation
I.E: Pearltrees
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13. “There's a big need for products to filter out the noise
because sharing of content is increasing exponentially. I think
more and more people are starting to realize the cost of
keeping up with content in realtime is just too high, and it's
far better to be productive, do your work.”
Mircea Pasoi, co-founder, Summify
@mirceapasoi
Monday, November 28, 2011
14. The Two C’s
Connect
Create
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17. “Now we’re totally overloaded by this because
everyone can publish. The next step is curation, is
being able to put a layer on top of this to make
sense of it.”
-Burt Herman, Storify
(@BurtHerman)
Monday, November 28, 2011
20. Sean Branagan at
#NewhouseSM6
@Storify
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21. “We are building off of what's out there and what’s
interesting ... there’s a wealth of material people are posting
on Flickr and updates on Facebook that we want people to
connect with.”
-Burt Herman
@BurtHerman
Monday, November 28, 2011
22. Start an online newspaper,
using Twitter, Facebook, Google+ feeds
The Daily Miss a Day, Miss a Lot
@smallrivers
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23. “For most people, a real-time stream of endless tweets was
(and still is) difficult to digest. This is where we saw an
opportunity - provide an easy tool to consume what was being
shared on Twitter.
- Iskander Pols, COO
@ipols
Monday, November 28, 2011
24. Your Social Magazine
Social feeds displayed in
magazine-style layout for iPad
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25. “I looked at magazines, and I
looked at an article in Time
Magazine and it looked so
beautiful, and then you look
at that same article on the
website and it’s just a
shadow of itself.
And I thought, ‘Why is it
that?”
-Mike McCue
(@MMccue)
Monday, November 28, 2011
26. Pulse.me
Pulse takes your favorite websites
and transforms them into a
colorful and interactive mosaic.
@PulsePad
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27. Pulse.me
Analysis
Mobile-based reading, news gallery,
revival of magazine
http://www.pulse.me/about/#/about-us
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28. See stories from Twitter,
Facebook and Google Reader
aggregated and de-duplicated in
one beautiful place.
@Summify
Monday, November 28, 2011
29. “It all started because we had this problem ourselves. We
really enjoy reading articles, but there’s just too much content
out there and it’s really hard to figure out what’s relevant. ...
All this happened at a restaurant during dinner, and the next
day we started working on the product.”
Mircea Pasoi, co-founder, Summify
@mirceapasoi
Monday, November 28, 2011
30. THANK YOU!
Qianxing Lu and Brian Moritz
(@qlu_online and @bpmoritz)
Monday, November 28, 2011