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Friday, November 30, 2012

Design treasures in the Purchase Funnel @Eventbrite @mississa #warmgun

From Evernote:

Design treasures in the Purchase Funnel @Eventbrite @mississa #warmgun

Order confirmation page!

Set goals 
- define experience
- set Measurements

Focus on tools
- closely measure
- invite users

Great examples of confirmation pages:
Fab.com (like us, tell your friend and get reward, shop more (could be improved)) !!!
Sephora.com loyalty program 
Amazon.com (recommendations)

Objectives of eventbrite on confirmation page
- prominent confirmation
- promote "mybtickets"
- promote "create new event"


Fast Design-Decision Making 4 the Everyday Developer GitHub @nrrrdcore

From Evernote:

Fast Design-Decision Making 4 the Everyday Developer GitHub @nrrrdcore


Early & often - fresh shipping daily
>>> Dont use photoshop, work with tools code during you design <<<

Use this simple tools:
- paper
- dont fear blank canvas
- just use a css framework you need right now
- grids can be useless but help designers
- media querries are awesome
- patttern libraries are great - pears is an os
- visual patterns - dribblble
- learn about CSS: book  css for webdesigners
- icon fonts  - blacktocat
- sass/scss - pass ruby logic to css
Work with constraints

Styleguides 
are not just for color, its also for code, css, javascript, ruby
-KSS - to create styleguide

Prototyping
- github.gist
- dabblot - javascript 

Pull requests
- are awesome design tools



7 Deadly Myths of Email Design - MailChimp @BeParticular #warmgun

From Evernote:

7 Deadly Myths of Email Design - MailChimp @BeParticular #warmgun

7 Myths:

1. dont bank on mobile

2. People reading emails on the go
No, they sit but they do it mobile.

3. Its good to end up in your pocket
Create gmail filter with all emails include unsubscribe

4. Mobile emails get saved to read later on desktop
Design for mobile

5. To many mobile apps to design for
77% gmail

6. Designing for android is pain

7. If you dont know the tec, use one coloumn

Good example: Smashing 
Blog.mailchimp.com/mobile-email-research

Designing for experiments & A/B @etsy Dan McKinley #warmgun

From Evernote:

Designing for experiments & A/B @etsy Dan McKinley #warmgun

Do one very minimal change at a time. 
Measure, understand and move on.
Plan to be wrong.
Prefer incremental design changes instead whole redesigns.

Why we experiment and measure?
For surprises like:
- dont open new tabs - people not used to it
- Infinity scroll good or bad? - not good for etsy
- Auto suggest in search increased sales by 4%



Designing Your Design Team - flipboard @didierh #warmgun

From Evernote:

Designing Your Design Team - flipboard @didierh #warmgun

Everyone in the team is a designer, no matter if he codes, writes or designs
Prototype together with developers not only with designers - sit together at the "kitchentable"
His fav way to work is: 1 designer + 1 developer work next to each other.


Design for customer love: Wufoo Kevin Hale @iIlikevests #warmgun

From Evernote:

Design for customer love: Wufoo Kevin Hale @iIlikevests #warmgun

Make everyone in the company responsible for customer support, because:

Create software = new user + existing users
New user = dating
Existing user = marriage

1) Dating
First impression = Home, landing, pricing, login, First email, signup - be nice
Good examples: Login button at wufoo, vimeo login, photojojo, hurl 404 error page, developer contest at wufoo to win an axe, 

2) Marriage
John Kottman prediction: couples and startups always fight for:

How to make your customers love you?
Engineers and designers are often disconnected from customer consequences
Dont seperate customer support from creators, keep responsibility
> SDD Support Driven Development: creators become supporters

What happens when everyone is involved in customer support?
Virality grows, product gets awesome and support goes down
Good examples of SDD: Craigslist, amazon, freshbooks, rackspace, kayak







Behavior design @BJFogg phd stanford #warmgun

From Evernote:

Behavior design @BJFogg phd stanford #warmgun


1 Get clear on behavior 
what are the targets? Specific?
b=mat (motivation ability triger)
What is the sequence you want to achieve?

2 execute the b-model MAT
Motivation: Keep existing motivation - help what people do, what they already do!
Ability: Easy to do or train to do? - People want it easy - simplify
Trigger: No behavior happens without trigger= call to action (click here, now, walk, try, ...)

Always check if user have a motivation, the ability to do it and a clear call to action?
Increase conversion by make it easier and not by increasing motivation.
Great trigger: someone has tagged a photo of you

3 compare to success patterns
Simple social fun

Design Thinking Mike Krieger instagram @mikeyk #warmgun


The design process: by IDEO design thinking = lean 
How to get the design right?
1 understand - interview customers
2 observe - dont guess, watch
3 define/synthesis - user + need + insight
4 ideate - go for quantity in limited time
5 prototype and test - every prototype answers a question
6 iterate - do it again

Test ideas on random people
Ship every friday and iterate on monday
If there is no unanswered question, its time to pivot.







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Saturday, November 17, 2012

#Pitches @blackocean #nyc #daily notes @genesismedia


@streamworks 2/4
Live encoding/transcoding Video streaming platform

@eliteDaily 2/4
18-34 years content portal
Advertising monetization
>Nobody is targeting this Audience? - I doubt
Impressive growth even without a mobile solution yet.

@quoteSQR 2/4
Platform for quotes
To easy share and monetize them
>fast oportunity, but where is the vision?

@wisemarket 2/4
Social affiliate network like customizable shop@
ECommerce via affiliate commissions
>how to get tracktion? Why should people do it?

@tastebuds 2/4
Dating based on music taste 18-25years
Freemium model

@genesismedia 3/4
Online video advertising network
Watch the video ad before seeing the article
CPC monetization 
Raising 5m series B
>Hard to create salesforce, 





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Friday, November 16, 2012

Future of Advertising #nyc #btov #daily notes @playapi @pricingengine


#panel 
Aniq Rahman @moat online ad analytics
Marc Michel @metamorphic ventures
Ari Lewine @triplelift 

Clicks are dead for advertising - share is the new currency
Clicks are inverse effect to conversion
Video ads 5-10 seconds will replace TV ads

#Pitches

@pricingengine 3/4
Dashboard to consolidate adwords, yahoo, bing 
Recommendations to improve ad campaigns

@playAPI 3/4
Platform to develop social apps, games and ads
In 2017 CMOs will spend more money for IT then CTOs


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crowdcourcing panel #btov #nyc #daily notes


Matthew Shampine @hometalk (NYC startup community wework)
Emerson Spartz - spartz media (virality and crowd expert, muggle.net givesmehope)
#a > intro him to ufostart, he likes to take smal equity for his work in startups. Likes secondmarket
Ted Roden - fancyhands (taskrabbit with subscription)
Eliot Durbin - investor indiegogo
Erica Berger moderator

Crowdsource content creation
Crowdvote to find top quality

Pitches

@houdini 3/4
Human labor in the cloud (1.2b market size)
Muhammad At-Tauhidi
Quality control for mturk to get quilified jobs done
General tasks like crowdflower or clickworker
Raising 750k

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CEO | Founder of Globumbus & zanox | Angel Investor

Globumbus
Silicon Valley - Sunnyvale | 440 N Wolfe Rd | CA 94085
Germany - Potsdamer Platz 10 | Haus 2 | 10117 Berlin

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Pitches @GeneralAssembly #nyc #btov #daily notes @customerio @arkad


@voicebunny 3/4
Crowdsourcing solution for voice over
#a integrate in ufostart list

@dwolla 2/4
Payment platform to transfer cheap money

@neverware 1/4
Local cloud server to run windows as a virtual machine on old computers

@themuse 3/4
What shall I do with my life?
YC2012

Custermer activation 
#a ufostart Onboarding Process
Use case: crm sales channel

@arkad 4/4
Share data
KPI dashboard of cloud services
Data management
Crowdintelligence
#a ufostart kpi dashboard


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CEO | Founder of Globumbus & zanox | Angel Investor

Globumbus
Silicon Valley - Sunnyvale | 440 N Wolfe Rd | CA 94085
Germany - Potsdamer Platz 10 | Haus 2 | 10117 Berlin

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#Pitches @wework coworking space #nyc #btov #daily notes @happify


@wiseling 2/4
Fashion market place for smb like ebay or etsy
Ecommerce

@pricingengine 2/4
Dashboard to consolidate adwords, bing, microsoft adcenter..

@peoplehunt 2/4
Crowdscanner
Matching app like highlight
Missing facebook content for matching

@martini 2/4
Group dating

#lunch
@happify 3/4
App to make you happy


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Thomas Hessler
CEO | Founder of Globumbus & zanox | Angel Investor

Globumbus
Silicon Valley - Sunnyvale | 440 N Wolfe Rd | CA 94085
Germany - Potsdamer Platz 10 | Haus 2 | 10117 Berlin

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pitches at projective space #daily notes #btov #nyc

pitches at projective space #daily notes #btov

@marketRealist 2/4
Investment research for private investors
Opposite of Sharewise 
ETF content
Quality content from professionals
Advertising model

@barandclubstats 1/4
ID check app

@I am not a virgin 1/4
Eco friendly Jeans
Made from garbage like plastic bottles

@betterPet 2/4
Dog owner social network

@hoonto 2/4
Dashboard anything
Data driven decision
Competitors: Klipfolio geckoboard 

@flinja 2/4
College marketplace for alumni communities

@smilu 2/4
Mobile multi player Game

@enplug 3/4
Offline Advertising platform with social interaction (LED TV)
>why hardware?

Music streaming for public playing 
Spotify for businesses

@myRight 3/4
Legal advise for most common questions
Crowdsourced answers from legalzoom

@styleClub 2/4
Fashion ecommerce for teenagers
Like tobi

@gonnabe 3/4
Social life concierge app
Discover what to do around you
Raising 1m


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CEO | Founder of Globumbus & zanox | Angel Investor

Globumbus
Silicon Valley - Sunnyvale | 440 N Wolfe Rd | CA 94085
Germany - Potsdamer Platz 10 | Haus 2 | 10117 Berlin

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pitches at projective space #daily notes #btov #nyc

pitches at projective space #daily notes #btov

@marketRealist 2/4
Investment research for private investors
Opposite of Sharewise 
ETF content
Quality content from professionals
Advertising model

@barandclubstats 1/4
ID check app

@I am not a virgin 1/4
Eco friendly Jeans
Made from garbage like plastic bottles

@betterPet 2/4
Dog owner social network

@hoonto 2/4
Dashboard anything
Data driven decision
Competitors: Klipfolio geckoboard 

@flinja 2/4
College marketplace for alumni communities

@smilu 2/4
Mobile multi player Game

@enplug 3/4
Offline Advertising platform with social interaction (LED TV)
>why hardware?

Music streaming for public playing 
Spotify for businesses

@myRight 3/4
Legal advise for most common questions
Crowdsourced answers from legalzoom

@styleClub 2/4
Fashion ecommerce for teenagers
Like tobi

@gonnabe 3/4
Social life concierge app
Discover what to do around you
Raising 1m


--
--
Thomas Hessler
CEO | Founder of Globumbus & zanox | Angel Investor

Globumbus
Silicon Valley - Sunnyvale | 440 N Wolfe Rd | CA 94085
Germany - Potsdamer Platz 10 | Haus 2 | 10117 Berlin

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Summary of Pitches at #FounderShowcase #daily notes

My #notes and votes out of 4 points. > 2 means I am interested to invest with @UFOstart

@seatAssignMate 1/4
Social seating in airplanes based on your social profile
#critical mass
500k raising

@HackerHires 2/4
Find right developer by challenging them
Recruting solution codeacademy
250k raising

@spikes 2/4
Secure browsing
Cloud browser
#browser war is taff, enterprise business

@igenApps 1/4
Mobile app creating wizard
#not an app, just a mobile website

@onContracting  2/4
Discover contract jobs
#like elance for domestic jobs
Raising 250k

Writers / publishing marketplace 
Helps writers to publish books
400k raising
#old world solution, missing online marketing for digital content 

@sortbox 2/4
Job applications for smb to sort and organize like resumator but simple
Saas subscription model
500k raising
#missing the social aspect to filter

@hugefan 2/4
Event ticketing for entertainer and artist
#I like the idea to Sell tickets to your birthday party
Raising 500k

#keynote @yammer founder David Sacks


Todos #a
@zenCash Saas dashboard for invoicing and dunning
@hackerhires 

Monday, October 8, 2012

My slides at the EBSpreneurship forum 2012 #startup #ufostart #globumbus #zanox

How would Silicon Valley reInvent Industries, Startups and your Life? 3 secrets you can learn, to build a succesfull company like the zanox founders Jens Hewald, Heiko Rauch and Thomas Hessler did. And how www.UFOstart.com can help you to build your own startup.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Pnp FallExpo summary and 30 startup pitches #daily notes @claco @scan @pinerly

#keynote
@AlexMehr - CEO zoosk
What is the most frequent way a user interacts with your product?
Focus on the most important use case, even if you product has several values.
Find the loop your user will user over and over again!
Most startups dont find it and die. The few who find it to find
another and fail.
Once you find it, NEVER let go, its a gold mine!
Use primary atomic use case needs to be sticky or it has no chance to survive.
Examples:
Zoosk: next button - to see the next profile picture
Iphone: changed from "making calls" to "using apps"
FB apps are not the primary use case (not on your news feed) thats why
they dont work.
Strategies to win against competitors: better Primary use case or come
up with a different primary use case.

#startup pitches and my votes out of 4 points
>2 I am interested

@pinerly 3/4
Social media adnetwork
750k raising

@kermdinger studios 2/4
social distribution for traditional video games
Raising 500k

@myfit 1/4
Virtual fitting room using kinect
2m raising

@provital 3/4
Medical crowdsourcing platform
Team of 3
Raising 925k

@globaltrek 1/4
Global channel partner

@smartaxi 3/4
Real time Taxi demand forecasting
Mobile app to treck and show a head map

@bonica.co 1/4
Baby registry service

@contentRamen 2/4
social media content creation tool
Raising 250k

@sonda41 2/4
Social media analytics
Raising 750k

@shoppinPal 1/4
Analytics for online shops

@timex 1/4
Timeline categories outside facebook
750k

@secondFunnel 2/4
Retargeting algorythm prediction
Raising 1m

@brightblu 1/4
Home automation IOT
Plug to switch with your smartphone
Raising 1m

@radius
Local digital content discovery app
750k raising


@lemon 2/4
Mobile wallet and receipts
#a intro to itembase to check their api offering access to millions of receipts

@ngdata 1/4
Consumer inteligence

@speaktoit 1/4
Like Siri

@traverie 1/4
Travel planing app

@biglittlebang 2/4
3d virtual kids game

@touristeye 1/4
Travel planer with 200k users
500k raising

@everbill 3/4
Invoicing cloud service
Get rid of invoicing
600 paying customers

@zabzo 2/4
Fun Todo list for students
Stanford team of 3
500k raising

@gremln 1/4
Social media analytics

@poolparty 2/4
Knowledge management system in semantic web

@MI5 1/4
Security infrastructure for assets

@stealth 1/4
Cloud infrastructure

@taztag 2/4
Mobile secure id
Traction and revenues
2m raising

@dmd panorama 2/4
4.5m users mobile app
Panorama video
5m raising

@scan.me 3/4
Digital actions in the real world
#IOT
20m app installs
Raised 1.7m
Raising 5m

@claco 4/4
Education
Lesson planing Crowdsourcing platform
Like students copy and paste wikipedia for homework
100k users aftter 10 weeks





Thomas Hessler
CEO | Founder | Angel Investor

Globumbus
Silicon Valley - Sunnyvale | 440 N Wolfe Rd | CA 94085
Berlin - Checkpoint Charlie | Friedrichstraße 50 | 10117 Berlin

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Inside Apple @startup2startup #daily notes

Should you run your startup like steve jobs?

How apple works:
Learn to Say No
Focus just on one thing at atime
Ceo is involved in this thing
Only talk about your product
All work local in cupertino
DRI direct responsible individual
Business leader dont need to make money, they focus on products
They dont do customer focus groups but they do testing
Apple is no fun play it is a work environment youre proud about
If you work for apple, its not about you anymore, its about apple.
Ceo gives feeback every 2 weeks
Apple people dont multitask, they do one thing at a time.
Competing internal teams on same topic

Take Aways:
Wolfe pack Team
Focus
Simplicity
Product or manager CEO
Not for startups
Pick only one from the list as startup
Excitement
Military similarities to focus
Responsebility





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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Angelpad demoday pitches spring 2012 #daily

2000 applications - 10 pitches

@academize 2/4
#education personalized video lesson creator

@embark anywhere 2/4
#travel mobile booking app

@elasticbox 2/4
#deploy applications in the cloud

@spotivate 2/4
#local event discover app

@mobile captain 2/4
#mobile local ad platform for sme

@piggybackr 3/4
#fundraising for young people
#crowdfunding for good

@spotsetter 2/4
Social Search engine to find out: Where do I go?

Future of enterprise communication
#collaboration

@rolepoint 2/4
Social recruitment platform

@dropt 2/4
Watermark platform for images to connect to ecommerce

#Todos
Hall.com
Rolepoint







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Thomas Hessler
CEO | Founder of Globumbus & zanox | Angel Investor

Globumbus
Silicon Valley - Sunnyvale | 440 N Wolfe Rd | CA 94085
Germany - Potsdamer Platz 10 | Haus 2 | 10117 Berlin

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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Startup conference summary and pitches #startupconf #daily notes



#Keynote Dave McClure  500 startups  
Reinventing venture capital through innovation, incubation, iteration 
Changes in tech startups
- less capital required
- more customers online
- lots of little bets: accelerators, angels, angel list (ycombinator, tech stars, 500 startups, angel pad)
 
Web2.0 + lean startup
1. Startup costs: lower
2. Users, bandwidth: bigger
3. Transaction $$$: better 
 
Building product - cheaper, faster, better
Getting customers - easier, more measurable
Iterative product & marketing decisions based in measured user behavior.  
Successful platforms have: features, users, money.
AARRR model:   
Acquisition
Activation
Retention
Referral 
Revenues 
 
 #Startup Pitches

@leadferret 2/4
Address lists

@busyflow 2/4
Integrating productivity tools like: pivotal, google docs, github, basecamp, dropbox, evernote etc.

@flipgigs 3/4
Marketplace for student labor
Internships

@GZpoints 3/4
Discounts for kids on local stores based on their grades

@daring.is 2/4
What to buy - answering engine

@sonarflow 2/4
Music recommendation app

@vuukle 2/4
Credibility filter for comments


#Keynote @JustinKan Exec
Starting companies -
@Kiko web calender never got users
@Justin.tv got funding from YC
@Twitch.tv asked customer what they want: justin.tv for gaming
@Socialcam mobile streaming
@EXEC. Outsorce tasks via video message for $25
Good time to start a company right now: just because its so easy with Heroku to build web apps
You will never win if you don't try.

#Keynote @TimDraper,
Is looking for:
-Revolutions
-Businesses with zeros on their balance sheets (no costs)
-Heros and riskmasters
Recommends countries to invest in: singapore and korea

#tracktion panel
With @99designs @seatgeek @wepay @inporia
Recommendations: lean startup idea, mvp,

#Investors panel
Pitch: show dont explain, tell stories

#Keynote Jerry Kaplan
How to fix the 5 biggest mistakes founders make?
1 write down your goals and mission
2 dont try to be right, find out the right idea.
3 distribut your equity and dont be greedy (equity is like shit if you keep it in a pot, but it grows if you spred it out)
4 hire people you need and not nessesarly you like.
5 know when to let go.

Best qualities you need
1 belief that you can make a difference
2 passion
3 optimism
4 tolerance for uncertainty
5 genuine concern for others

Skills
1 Leadership - build consensus in the face of uncertainty
2 Communication - everyone should know their job and how it contribute
3 Knowing when to make a decision - amateurs too early, perfectionists too late
4 Teamwork - delegate, trust,msupport (Think of yourself as an employee of your company.)
5 Ability to telescope - attention to detail while seeing the big picture

Companies have the personality of their CEOs

#Todos for UFOstart
Data guy
Customer service guy
Get Dealflow On the platform via landingpage

Legal document generator for startups:  



Tuesday, April 24, 2012

#FounderShowcase #2 startup pitches @itembased @talentina #Daily notes #UFOstart

My votes out of 4 points > 2 I would probably invest

@einztein 2/4
Learning profile to share what u r learning
Raising 600k for product and market

@itembased 4/4
Inventory list of all items you bought
Community around all your items
All manuals of your items
Current value
Sell on ebay interface
#crowdsourcing
#ecommerce innovation for second hand sales
Raising 1.5m

@talentina 3/4
Platform for personal coaching
#crowdsourcing
Raising 500k

@paycento 2/4
Micropayment with your social ID
Raising 2.5m






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Thomas Hessler
CEO | Founder of Globumbus & zanox | Angel Investor

Globumbus
Silicon Valley - Sunnyvale | 440 N Wolfe Rd | CA 94085
Germany - Potsdamer Platz 10 | Haus 2 | 10117 Berlin

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#FounderShowcase startup pitches, summary and my votes #daily notes #UFOstart

My votes out of 4 points, > 2 means I probably would invest

@Blueseed 2/4
Off shore incubator on a cruise ship near to San Francisco
Raising 750k
>Bubble 2.0, high infrastructure costs, will be dead with the startup visa

@LendSocial 3/4
Local social lending
#crowdfunding #p2p lending
Raising 500k
Missed to explain the power of social

@leaves 2/4
Facebook for elderlies

@YumvY 3/4
Recipes for dummies
Cooking advisor app, innovation for recipes
#crowdsourced content
Raising 500k





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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Startupism summary day 2 and pitches #daily notes #startupism

#changing the world

#accelerating innovation @dfjSteve
Think about a company becomes most important in 20 years, has not created yet.
If anyone agrees on your idea its not radical enough to change the world.
Recession is the healthiest time to build a business, due to customer focus.
Every major invention is a combination of two or more previous ideas.
Life long learning is a good idea.
No team greater 7 gets more work done!

#death match contestants pitches

@txtRoo 2/4
Platform to use mobile phones like smart phones
* shrinking market

@letslisten 2/4
Turntable + timeline
* highly competitive

@justShareIt ridelink 3/4
Car sharing with control device
* how does it work?

@pixt 2/4
Photo sharing meets pinterests
*traction?

@justuno 2/4
Coupons for likes, tweets etc
*feature for every ecommerce system
*hard sales

@crowdcall 3/4
App to make Group calls
*how to make money?

@thoughtLeadr 3/4
Social advertising algorythm for UGC


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Monday, April 2, 2012

Startupism 2012 summary #daily notes

#Panel - mobile monetization
@gregoryKennedy inmobi
@marioTapia - getJar appstore
@michaelBayle - espn mobile
@tanTmangraksat - mobclix
@peterFarago - flurry
@edwardMarks - inedible software
Start with mobile web to discover app platform strategy
Nothing beats word of mouth
For every dollar on iOS you will get 24cents on android
Buy new users with the money you earned on selling your app.
Monetize your mobile app with consumers or corporations.


#keynote @PhilMcKinney
Philmckinney.com

The power of questions:
Don't stop with the first answer.
Ask questions you can not answer right now.
Killer questions force you to start discover before answer

Innovation is a skill anybody can learn.
1 Focus
search for opportunities
Challenge your assumptions (what if the opposite is true)
2 Ideation
Killer ideas from killer questions
Who? What? How?
3 Ranking
Will it Change?: -customer experience, -competitive positioning,
-Economics, your contribution? Generates margin?
4 Execution

Ideas without execution are a hobby
Talk to customers first
Innovate with a portfolio: (Focus on your core competency, Innovate via M& A)
Tell stories and put the person you talk to in the middle of the story.

#todo - book "Beyond the obvious"

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

30 pnp expo pitches @arrived @ingidio #daily notes

My notes and votes, > 2 means I would probably invest




NameProduct (what are they doing) Market potentialMoney making strategyVotes 1/4
@arrived 
#ecommerce #crowdsouring
#todo aron
reward system based on auto checkin

smb via affiliate, crowdsourced sales model,
3/4

1M raising
340k raised
3/4
@ividence
email advertising on behavioral targeting, paris, SF, NY
former TD and double click team
online advertising, 3/4
very crowded, spam,
advertising
$5eCPM
6M raising
2/4
@Jetlore
#big data
social context curation via algorithms unclearnot answered2/4
@SpotFodofind and book photographers1/4600k raising1/4
@ComComprivate label market place
1/4
?500k raising1/4
@saexCRM tool ??address selling1/4
@moziotravel search engine with local transportationcrowded spacecommissions, advertising
700k raising
2/4
@nixter
#todo
night live app?raising2/4
@MerryMarrywedding planerover crowded500k raising1/4
@KnowledgeFoxeLearning, micro learning app like cards3/4?2/4
@skypaz
#todo
platform to build apis ???1/4
@facesinsingle checkin ¼ its over?1/4
@wristagwrist tag for events ?commisions1/4
@monstrobig data for music
big 3/4¼ unclear
3m raising
1/4
@mindsumostudent recruting
via #crowdsourcing
1/4
@flashgroup
#todo
connecting people based on content500k raising2/4
voting via snooozy
@virool
#todo
video promotion via viral1/4750k raising1/4
@intentionismobile sensors1/4
@news360news
@inGidio
#ecommerce
#todo aron
shopping inside games, twitter, any websitehuge
3/4
?3/4
@storymix
#crowdsourcing
video editing? 1m raising1/4
@novachieducation platform1/4
@nicereply
#todo
feedback system500k raising2/4
@lifewaredirect sales 1/4
@zadaracloud enterprise storagecrowded10m raising1/4
@mobspiremobile advertising1/4
@educed
@kidzloop
#todo
parents social network2/4
@trustgomobile security1/4
@spyramobile game developer750k raising2/4
@decisionDesk
#todo
virtual interviews,
smal 1/42/4

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CEO | Founder of Globumbus & zanox | Angel Investor

Globumbus
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Germany - Potsdamer Platz 10 | Haus 2 | 10117 Berlin

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