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Re: VC Fund Returns Are More Skewed Than You Think

aripap — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 07:48:23 -0000

Totally agree that the optimal strategy is more investments (spray and pray) rather than fewer, more well chosen ones. Just look at the so-called "anti portfolios" of major firms and you see huge winners that the pros turned down. I think venture partners over value board seats and over estimate their value as board members. :)

Re: DaaS Bible 2.0: Everything You Need to Know About Data Standards

aripap — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:27:42 -0000

This is great. To expand a bit on your discussion of the quality of the join key, you might want to think about the "velocity" of data joins in general. In the case where you have a single, standardized, free key, that is unambiguous you have the maximum possible velocity. Sort of like the speed of light in a vacuum. But consider the example of the English language at Davos. Some non-native speakers may need translators or may only comprehend 80% of what they hear. There's still a key, but it is not 100% efficient. Or consider where you need two different keys to get the answer you want. Like if you want to know the local time in a geography historically, and need to join Unix time, with a complex historical timezone database.

Re: The Ad Contrarian: Suddenly, $13 Billion In Media Reviews. Coincidence?

aripap — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 09:18:57 -0000

I don't see any evidence this is caused by digital. It seems much more likely to me that the cause is the secular decline in television viewership, especially among the young, which is causing the overall effectiveness of the TV budgets to decline. This is also seen in the declining sales and marketshare of many traditional brands like Coke, McDonald's, etc.

Re: Fun Friday: Coming Up With A Better Name For NYC’s Tech Community

aripap — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 08:07:09 -0000

How about "Silicon Fucking Alley"

Re: Product founders & the VP of Product

aripap — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 12:55:23 -0000

As a former VP Product and current CEO I totally agree. The flip side of this is that VP Product is often a difficult, and sometimes unpleasant job. I like to tell younger PMs that their best career path is really start-up CEO, not the corporate ladder.

Re: 2014 Ad Tech IPO Predictions

aripap — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 14:48:55 -0000

Yeah, these predictions not looking so good. The big surprise this year was TubeMogul.

Re: The Ideas That Won't Beat LinkedIn (& Some Which Might)

aripap — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 21:58:48 -0000

I don't know exactly how to beat LinkedIn (I like your suggestions a lot), but I know the vector by which you will get the network started will be email. The big failing of LinkedIn is trying to replace email with their own connections and their own messaging, both of which end up being duplicative and less data rich than the real thing. Xobni for business = LinkedIn Killer.

Re: The decline of the mobile web

aripap — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:58:20 -0000

I think the Flurry stats are exaggerated since so many web views are within the embedded browsers from Facebook and Twitter. These are likely considered apps, when they're really web with a different form of navigation.

Re: Scratch Jr

aripap — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:32:42 -0000

Love Scratch and just donated to Scratch Jr. The biggest problem I've got is that I want to play with it instead of letting my son take the reins. Here's "Pong" that he and I built on a snowy weekend day: http://blog.aripaparo.com/p...

Re: 16 things people at SXSW love to complain about

aripap — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:13:01 -0000

Wow, I didn't think you'd actually include me. I have lots of other stuff to complain about if given the chance.

Re: Who Is Your Customer?

aripap — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:25:45 -0000

The wikipedia article on two-sided markets should be required reading for entrepreneurs. I've seen people throw around the term "network effect" all the time when they actually mean two-sided market and the strategies are really quite different. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: Execs Who Can't Attract Former Coworkers Are Red Flags

aripap — Wed, 01 Jan 2014 19:04:21 -0000

I think this is a disadvantage to being a Xoogler. All your former colleagues are so well paid that recruiting is near impossible.

Re: Here Are the Ad Tech IPOs of 2014

aripap — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:58:29 -0000

I put them in the "no" list mostly because of a lack of info on my part and a lack of general market buzz. I could definitely see them surprising us all.

Re: The Limits of Capitalism

aripap — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:53:19 -0000

Politics aside, the point in this post reminds me of one of the greatest fallacies in modern economics: That slowing or declining populations doom a country to reductions in quality of life. While it is true that a portion of GDP growth is tied to population increases, quality of life is based on per capita GDP, not total. And while it is also true that population reductions can product a bad "dependency ratio" that ratio would work itself out once a new equilibrium of population is reached at a lower level. In my opinion (and I'm not an economist by any means), slowly declining populations in the developed world are the best solution for long-term income inequality since making the rate of population growth negative will more closely match the aggregate work needed.

Re: Here Are the Ad Tech IPOs of 2014

aripap — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:48:34 -0000

Henry, I left them off just as a matter of classification. They just never fit into my definition of "ad tech". This is totally arbitrary, so you could make the argument they should be on the list.

Re: The VOD Ad Market Is Pretty Pathetic

aripap — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 11:52:03 -0000

At DoubleClick we used to joke that Atlas doing VOD was like the Italian government landing on the moon. I guess that was mean to both Atlas and Italians, but it made us laugh, and I stand behind the sentiment.

Re: "You Literally Represent Everything Wrong With The World"

aripap — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 08:39:39 -0000

You really need to change your bio to "literally representing everything that is wrong in the world." It's the ultimate troll badge, wear it proudly.

Re: The Citibike Game

aripap — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 20:01:27 -0000

My wife reminded me that we added a special bonus prize: 20 points for someone on a Citibike while wearing a bear suit.

Re: Elapsed Time: Congrats! The Back Slappy Nature of Social Media

aripap — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:50:10 -0000

#blessed

Re: Memories

aripap — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:25:45 -0000

Pretty sure I watched this a couple of times.

Re: Technology predictions

aripap — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 21:19:44 -0000

All predictions need to have associated dates. You can say something like ChatRoulette or SecondLife will be a failure, but that's very different from saying the concepts underlying those companies will never be adopted. Too often we take our reasonable skepticism of a given technology, company, or business model, and extrapolate that skepticism to the infinite future of ideas and possibilities, and that is not good criticism, nor logically sound.

Re: 19 New York Startups

aripap — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 08:26:49 -0000

Umm, the meetings helped me network to find the job.

Re: 19 New York Start-Ups

aripap — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:40:29 -0000

They give you free food, you never need to even leave the building.

Re: It’s Time To Call Out Fraud In The Adtech Ecosystem

aripap — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 07:22:09 -0000

http://news.solvemedia.com/...

Re: It’s Time To Call Out Fraud In The Adtech Ecosystem

aripap — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:35:00 -0000

There's also a huge amount of traffic generated by bots but not scrubbed by the IAB Whitelist. Some of this is because bots identifying themselves as such will not get a "true" view of the page they are looking for and some is from real fraud perpetrated unwittingly by infected computers. Bots make up a very large % of impressions, some estimate 30% or more.