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Daniel I need to work on my angellist profile and I would like to utilize your wonderful article. However when I try and bring up the text in red or follow what should be links, nothing works. I can not get the text to enlarge so I can read it. I am using Firefox so I do not believe it is the browser. Can you give me any help. Email Art@aringthing.com Thanks for the post and your time. John E.
Hi, Daniel. I happened on your blog post of the U.Va. students' visit with you and it made me smile. It was fun to see the images of your earliest endeavors and I would very much like to share what you are doing now with our listeners in Charlottesville. Care for a live chat about entrepreneurship and the life experience you mention outside of the classroom? Cordially, Wendy @wendytime
I have a new start-up service business that just launched but I am unsure how to start gaining traction? The concept is fairly unique and might take a few bold people to actually try it out before it catches on.
In previous businesses I've found going to the basics is the best. Ex. Passing out fliers to businesses or on the street.
Any tips on where to begin?
Hi Daniel, I'm currently writing my senior thesis on the development of startup communities, specifically focusing on the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Charlottesville, VA, home of your alma mater, the University of Virginia. As an entrepreneurial person who has spent time in Charlottesville as well as Silicon Valley, I'm interested in your thoughts on what comprises the essence of a startup community. Where do startup hubs come from? As a UVA alum, I'm particularly interested in your perspective on how the University and Charlottesville could have better supported you as an aspiring entrepreneur during your college days. Attached are several questions to generate some conversation
- How would you characterize the entrepreneurial ecosystem of UVA and Charlottesville? How is it changing?
- What are this community’s strengths, and what are our weaknesses? Characterize the greatest obstacles for Charlottesville to become a vibrant startup hub.
- Describe your vision for startups in Charlottesville. What does the ideal startup community look like locally? What must happen for C'ville to become a sustainable startup hub that consistently produces high quality entrepreneurial ventures?
- Please feel free to add anything else that is on your mind. Are there other individuals who you believe would have thoughts on this subject? I hope to incorporate as many points of view as possible, so suggestions or referrals are greatly appreciated!
Awesome preso from Leslie Bradshaw who recently made the move to gui.de. This meshes well with Daniel's ideas around the iceberg under the Mobile Wave:
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CEO of Socialize. Entrepreneur & lifehacker in Silicon Valley. Hopeless travelaholic.
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My wife and I trekked out to this great spot on the East shore of Lake Tahoe to get some pictures of the sunset.
I'd set everything up and took a test shot -- and guess what? I forgot my memory card.
Unbelievable.
I missed some epic shots because I forgot to put the memory card in my camera.
Daniel, It's been a while. We met a few times when you were still back in DC running the brokerage. Something you said at one of our meetings has stuck with me, and lately I've been thinking about it quite a bit. That was:"I've always thought the best real estate brokerage would be a media company."I'd love it if you could elaborate on that thought.Will
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CEO of Socialize. Entrepreneur & lifehacker in Silicon Valley. Hopeless travelaholic.
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Sasha, a user on the site, posted the following question (I'm re-posting here so it has its own thread):
"Hi Daniel, I am looking to develop a real estate app which I think is different and unique from what already exists in the market (a tall order!). I was wondering if you might have any recommendations for an app development company that works with individuals. This app will deal with the aggregation of data - it's not a game or anything fancy like that. Anyone in DC or San Francisco come to mind? I'll also be going to India later this year to meet with contacts there. Thanks! Sasha"
Being in the mobile app space, I get this question often. For some background on posts I've written before about mobile, watch my MobileX keynote, my post on the evolving definition of the word "app", and my thoughts about whether or not apps are just a fad.
If you're interested in making an app, here's what to consider:
1) The very first thing to do is to really understand the mobile space, and analyze your goals. I see way too many people jump to the conclusion that they "want to make an app" without knowing what that really means, what it'll cost to do it, and why they are choosing an "app" as the vehicle to accomplish the goal. A poorly defined goal will invariably lead to a poor outcome.
View the article from AdAge here.
"With the proliferation of tablets, smartphones and corresponding apps and mobile websites, mobile ad unit inventory is varied, complex and constantly growing. For creative shops, this has meant a difficulty in devising campaigns engineered to run on a myriad of devices. Publishers, likewise, have been left with painfully low CPM rates for mobile ads even as consumption on mobile devices has increased.
The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) are hoping to change that by imposing a new set of industry guidelines. The two groups released the "Mobile Phone Creative Guidelines" on Friday in order to help standardize mobile advertising industry-wide.
This seems to validate Socialize's ad network strategy. http://www.clickz.com/clickz/news/2240315/mma-forum-urban-airship-cmo-throws-support-behind-apple-passbook "Urban Airship recently started to heavily invest in Passbook. The firm bought marketing firm Tello last year. Tello is the creator of a platform called PassTools that allows companies to create a Passbook pass without having to write code.
The company's chief marketing officer believes that Passbook can rejuvenate the coupon marketing strategy. In his presentation he called out coupons as one of the least effective forms of marketing. He based that belief on the manual nature of coupons."
