Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

As we’ve ramped up direct sales over the last few years our need to have relationships with the major media & advertising companies has become critical. We also sat down and talked about what the big challenges for 2013-2016 would be for the company and we are in the fortunate position of our major issue being how to handle growth.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

User Growth Snap’s user growth came to a near stop after Instagram launched a direct clone called Stories in September of 2016: Snap’s daily active users grew just 3% in Q4 2016. The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone.

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VC Cafe

JULY 25, 2017

This post is just my own learning process about this subject and doesn’t cover the rapidly growing bot ecosystem or the vertical messaging apps (startups like Crew ). Source: Messaging App Usage Worldwide: eMarketer’s Updated Forecast, Leaderboard and Behavioral Analysis. Source: Line and WeChat Strike Advertising Gold ?—?WSJ,

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Between January 2015 and January 2016, we grew our platform Slidebean from $1K to $20K in monthly recurring revenue. See Also: A Complete Guide to Forecasting Sales for Your Monthly Subscription (SaaS) Business. It’s no joke that your users are your best advertisers. Lean marketing. Users who love your product (cheap or free).

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