If at first you don't succeed, cast your failure as part of an industry trend. That's the exit strategy of Russell Beattie, who launched mobile startup Mowser after being fired from Yahoo in 2006. Fired, mind you, when Yahoo was firing very few people. Beattie's tale of woe explains Mowser's failure thus: Designing Web pages for cell phones was always a short-term game, and his bet came out wrong. TechCrunch's Michael Arrington plays right into Beattie's hand, arguing about the future of the mobile Web instead of asking why ... lire la suite
If at first you don't succeed, cast your failure as part of an industry trend. That's the exit strategy of Russell Beattie, who launched mobile startup Mowser after being fired from Yahoo in 2006. Fired, mind you, when Yahoo was firing very few people. Beattie's tale of woe explains Mowser's failure thus: Designing Web pages for cell phones was always a short-term game, and his bet came out wrong. TechCrunch's Michael Arrington plays right into Beattie's hand, arguing about the future of the mobile Web instead of asking why Mowser failed. He encourages Beattie to launch a new startup building applications instead of a mobile Web browser. But that debate doesn't tell us why Mowser failed. A former Yahoo insider says Beattie's Mowser drew on several elements of Yahoo's Sushi platform for cell-phones, now known as Yahoo OneSearch and OneConnect, among other names. Beattie, better known inside Yahoo for his prolific blogging and conference attendance than for his product-management skills, just couldn't duplicate the design. (Other ex-Yahoos did manage to recreate parts of Sushi, allegedly so successfully that they got sued by Yahoo.) His former colleagues, from what we hear, aren't shedding too many tears over his tale of woe, which includes getting his car repossessed twice and subsisting on buttered macaroni. Then again, given that his alternative was somehow hanging onto a job at Yahoo, I'm not sure Beattie was worse off in the end.
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It didn't take long for Katie Holmes to prove she cannot compare to Nicole Kidman when it comes to Broadway appeal. Months before she even sets foot on stage, Tom Cruise's replacement wife is striking out at the box office, managing to sell only $1 million worth of advance tickets to her September theatrical effort in All My Sons. That may sound like a decent take in the world of steadily declining Broadway sales, but it doesn't even come close to Kidman's number, which was $4 million. So why the distant gap in interest between seeing Holmes hack through Arthur Miller and Kidman feign sex live? It's not just a matter of full-frontal cartwheels... As Us notes, Kidman opened in both London and New York productions of The Blue Room at the same time as Eyes Wide Shut was gearing up to open in movie theaters. The only Stanley Kubrick film to open in the number-one spot, the ritzy S&M flick had more than freaky costumes going for it — Kubrick passed away before its premiere, the film itself wasn't too shabby and, most importantly, Tom Cruise and Kidman were enjoying their final year as Hollywood's golden couple. People went to see his movies and couldn't wait for the chance to see both in the same one. He used to be an actor! One the Academy considered worthy of an Oscars nom! So Holmes' failure isn't really hers — well, in so much as her miserable confinement as a prisoner of Scientology isn't really her fault, either.
A lot of folks have been asking for yesterday’s email newsletter. Now, this is a one time thing... if you want to get these in the future you have to signup for Jason’s email list. part because of those concerns, there has been a sudden rash of Milton Pedraza, chief executive of the Luxury Institute, a research a “paralysing effect” on the US luxury market [the world's biggest This is a good sign in some ways. It means that everyone is trying to “Sundance for the technology industry.” The conference featured 52 the 52 companies. These rehearsals were 20-45 minutes on average. As a result, I’m in the unique position of seeing where our industry is headed. Being pitched by this many people in this short a period of Beyond the technology trends, we all witnessed some trends for startup startups in a recession-to-depression environment. odd, except for the fact that I knew they a) owned a jet and b) were There was a wonderfully bizarre moment of discomfort as we exchanged when you own a plane?!?!” I didn’t have to ask. The women leaned over build a product that appeals to the cheapskate in all of us? The major cost of a startup company today is very different today than associated with a startup were servers, marketing, software, infrastructure (i.e. office space, phones, etc) and, of course, hardware (i.e. $1,500 servers) at co-location locations (i.e. they buy a rack for $2-5k a month). Previously, companies would fork over That era of a $20-30k a year server is ending as folks realize they and associated infrastructure. This means the marginal cost of a Five folks can co-locate/co-work at a Starbucks or their homes, build a full application on a cloud computing platform and market their no longer two folks in a garage hoping to build a prototype in order to land a huge VC round, then getting millions of dollars to build out on to a core user base, all for around $5-10,000 in costs. Weblogs, Inc., was a great example of this. We had a couple of full-time team members working from home, a couple of servers and a lot of freelancers. We monetized with a virtual sales force for most of our life. The result was a large business being built in 18 months, over a year with very little pressure to “break out.” This leads to a lot of people taking a lot more risk, stating a lot more crazy ideas. If the marginal cost of a business is people’s time, a lot more ideas are going to be tested. There are a lot of technical people out there Yammer. Yammer is, truth be told, a much more monetizable version of you, it’s a MASSIVE game changer. Is it the most innovative of the off.” In this environment, your job as a startup founder is to monitor off, then how will the market select a winner? The main factors in the success of companies riffing on a common goal will be longevity and If launching a microstartup is a sprint, building a business around a brand is a marathon. You’re going to see most of the “riff offs” get off to a big, splashy start-typically with a Robert Scoble and TechCrunch post-then fizzle Bottom line: Longevity will be, perhaps, the biggest innovation a printouts and the obligatory iPhone application. All of this from a not only been done, it’s available as a service or with free code. You open source products or software as a service. part of TechCrunch50. Devunity.com is building a system for folks to Microstartups and the “riff off” culture have created a new category of startup based not on a brand or a revenue stream, but rather a into product over the next year, and at some point a brand. Until you have 10,000 folks a day coming directly to your domain name, you’re not a brand. are created with one million chart views a day, they are not a brand-they’re a feature. StockMood.com has an amazing set of features to track the sentiment around a stock, but until they have 10,000 return visitors a day, they’re just a feature waiting to be added to wish them all the best, and I know they all have a great chance of is the ability to build a brand. Brands can’t be commoditized, and There is a long-standing debate in the internet industry about where If you’ve got a lot of runway (i.e. funds) and lots of competition, right-it’s two different approaches. Broadcast.com become a huge Roelof is on point about making a product that delights folks-he platforms being only a couple of years-or months-old at this point. It’s only a matter of time before someone builds a Twitter or It’s been proven over and over again that Wikipedia is run by a small, faced with two options-a professionally produced version of a product obvious which one users will select. Wikipedia has operated without a competitor for a very long time, and there is no guarantee that they Bottom line: Data portability is going to move from a conversation on the Gillmor Gang in 2005 to a consumer reality in 2010. I suggest you In a down market, people want to socialize. Sites like Meetup.com are Prediction: Twitter will launch a $20 a year professional version this year and have 50,000 sign-ups in under a year. businesses. If you’ve built a web 2.0 company that has some user In a down market, people with free time get creative. The blogging boom was not born out of a technological innovation-far from it. In boomed because in the 2003-2005 period, a lot of underemployed folks Bottom line: In a down market, folks get fidgety and look for software? Maybe a screenplay-writing community? Maybe fotonauts.com As I mentioned above, folks are going to have a LOT of free time. In a build out a website for their clan. Some of them might even want to when folks don’t think they can get rich starting a company, they look for other things to fill their time-like a significant other. me what products and services you think will take off in a down Even with the down market, a looming recession and global instability, there’s never been a better time to be an entrepreneur. Fortunes are · How exactly do you define a startup « nPost Startup Blog
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