Zitat des Tages von Keith Teare:
I escaped London in 1997 because it was hard to raise capital.
I feel like 'Just.me' is not successful, but it is not a failure.
Sponsored stories are not a great way to monetize mobile traffic. The phone is way more of a publishing tool than a reading tool. The attention users pay to the streams on mobile is far less than on the desktop.
As users replace usage of the web with a mobile, app-centric ecosystem, the phone becomes the center of gravity. In this mobile world, Facebook is just one app on the phone.
The Facebook of 2011, the Twitter of 2011 and the Google of 2011 are all understood to be in need of reinvention for a mobile-centric world with no clear strategy to make revenue.
Phones were created as social tools. Smartphones are especially good at being social, integrating text, voice, video and images in an endless number of apps that can serve a user's needs, and all without the need for a web-based social network.
Would I advise early-stage companies against taking debt? One hundred percent yes.
The human race is already social, and the smartphone has everything needed to enable them to act on their social needs.
