consumer startups

“I think one of the advice I give to my other founder friends on whether they're doing connected devices or software, as long as they're doing something consumer facing, I highly, highly recommend them. Don't be in a stealth mode. Don't be in a stealth mode. No…”

“And that was the whole push that we're now seeing, is that the New York market Is really working, you know, the older industry is really working with the new industry of consumer and e-commerce and content companies that are coming out of the startup world.”

“The story of going from early adopter to mass is storytelling. It's the ability to build that connection with the market so that they understand what you're doing, and they want to give it a try, and you're going to be able to develop their trust, and some of …”

“If you're social companies, you could grow off the backs of Facebook distribution and Twitter distribution, but all of those channels are now clogged down. They're now incredibly optimized and they're largely pay to play. So it's very difficult for a startup t…”

“There's so much more variability, and I think it can never be plugged into a spreadsheet with like a thumbs up or thumbs out. That just will be definitionally impossible in consumer”

“Well, that's in a B to B company. You know, if you're in, if you're more consumer, you're going to have more marketing or product marketing plus technical. Okay, because what you're talking about is SA, I think you referring to SaaS business, where you really …”