Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

The story of how Curative pivoted and scaled is about moving with entrepreneurial speed to find a solution, then collaborating with investors and government for the public good. Celine Halioua , founder of a company called Celevity that is developing drugs to extend the lifespan of dogs, also played a key role. I am Eric Ries.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

John Doerr of Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist’s calls it the “next wave of the web.” User-generated videos have enormous potential for sharing and to go viral. The following Pamper’s “ Love, Sleep, and Play ” campaign included curated UGC videos from real moms of their babies. Social media-fuelled the rise of the UGC.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Content can go viral – the highest quality stuff is shared. The benefit of networks is that you can hand curate the videos that run in the network providing higher-quality, better control and more brand-safe content for advertisers. And production is where Hollywood beats Silicon Valley. Set design. Post-Production.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Communities are incredibly hard to create and curate so they cannot simply be bolted on. It’s easy, especially in Silicon Valley, to get hung up on all the whizbang new technologies available to developers. Myth #2: You can bolt on community, once the commerce engine is going.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. The lesson was learned over 30 years in Silicon Valley: you create ecosystems where third-parties can innovate and thrive and you become the legitimate center of it all and can tax the system later. My view is if they were based in Silicon Valley they would be hot, hot, hot.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

I’ve written before about why I believe most Hollywood online video startups don’t get the future (and why most Silicon Valley startups don’t get online video ). They have a curator. And he has curated many stories. In this case Matt Orr. My guess is not but who knows.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally. Superbly curated, and Guy Raz is just a pleasure to listen to. We are unable to find iTunes on your computer.

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