Startup Whisperer Blog
Facebook’s Meteoric Advertising Market Share
Its amazing to see Facebook's eyeball dominance grow. I've written about Facebook before here and here, but, there growth and valuation continues to be nothing but exponentially impressive. This recent WSJ post cites FB's recent reported $70 billion dollar valuation. That's with a billion with a big "B". With this kind of scale, monetization is…
Is Amazon Finally Getting Into The Online Ad Market?
This post from Gigaom caught my eye. In the post, an analyst has an informed suspicion that Amazon is beefing up its capability to extend its current off Amazon network into a full-fledged ad play. I have been blogging about how Amazon should enter the online display market for quite some time in posts like…
Groupon’s Secret Weapon – the local advertising GDS
Many have argued that local deal juggernaut, Groupon, is not a defensible business. How many blog posts have we seen that exhort how Groupon was insane to pass on the reported $6 billion dollar take-out bid from Google. Heck, reports are that they are worth $25 billion. I think the casual observer will start to…
Find Link and Leverage Opportunities
One of the dreams that you strive for in your business is to link and leverage your existing business with a new business, product, or offering that you are introducing to the market. It is super compelling to think about selling more product to the same people or to extend a product/service to new customers.…
Huge Social Hiring Growth At GameHouse
We're making a ton of progress hiring for our social effort over at GameHouse. Check out our recent hires here. If you want experience working in the red hot social space as an entreprenur (without having to raise venture capital) then give us a shout.
Social Games Metrics
Page level analytics have been around for quite some time. For all of you folks that run Web-based businesses, concepts like reviewing your sales funnel from entrances, visits to conversions and staying at an array of different metrics from channel distribution are now commonplace. However, in the world of social games there is a new…
Looking To Build Social Games?
We're hiring for our social games business. I like to think about the oppurtunity to join one of the best funded social games startups. We've got a huge portfolio of social games and we're growing. Check out are latest games like Uno Boost and the Secret Planet Society. Please give us a holler if you…
Meekers’ Mobile Trends Presentation
This is a really interesting slide deck from Kleiner Perkins' Mary Meeker. The rate of change in mobile device adoption is certainly nothing new but the presentation does a nice job of pointing out some interestieng data that exemplifieds the change like: First three quarters of iDevice growth … iPod 236,000 units shipped iPhone 3.7…
Startup Whisperer 2011 Predictions
I think that I did OK on my predictions for 2010. Here is my take on 2011. Prediction: The year of the tablet. We were honored to be one of the first developers to support the Ipad with our game, Marble Mixer. Some people thought we were crazy. 2011 is the year where the tablet…
Startup Whisperer 2010 Prediction Results
Its that time to reflect on the past year and to think about the future. Last year I posted some predictions for 2010. I did a self assessment listed below in this post. Please comment if you disagree with my self-grade. I use a very folksy rating system of: “nailed it”, “borderline”", and “whiffed it.”. …
Operating Planning Advice, “Small Bites Chew Fast”
No matter what organization or industry that I am in, I typically see the same problems (and opportunities) around executing on a business plan. One of the most common issues is that organizations typically do no have a satisfactory operating planning process. You see this less in startups since the resources are typically really constrained…
Brand Verification Is a $200M Dollar Market In Just Two Years
Mpire continues to do some super compelling work in the ad optimization space. I do have a vested interest in the company but that does not address the fundamental fact that this market is exploding. Some excellent proof points can be found in a study that was conducted by Mpire and Radar Research. They teamed…
