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Re: Sunny Whether: Two Types of Forecasting Models for Running Your Startup

Taylor Davidson — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 23:09:05 -0000

Thank you :)

Re: Sunny Whether: Two Types of Forecasting Models for Running Your Startup

Taylor Davidson — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 22:37:09 -0000

On your note about good forecasting discussions / resources, I've pulled together many of the best posts and templates about financial projections for startups: http://foresight.is/best-pr...

Re: The Evergreen Nature of the Photo App Category

Taylor Davidson — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:53:06 -0000

The changing use cases for photos + the changing devices we use to create them are key points. The first wave of photo apps treated photos as art, the next wave of apps (and usage) treated photos as communication. I think we'll see a lot more apps focusing on structuring photo overload.

Related, you might like this http://taylordavidson.com/p... I created about tech innovation and the photography industry.

Re: Photography Industry Landscape

Taylor Davidson — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:39:32 -0000

I definitely believe that everyone is a photographer ( http://taylordavidson.com/2... ), but often for very different reasons.

For example, if you use photos as communication, then merely sending and sharing photos is important, and portfolios aren't important. I think that's been demonstrated by the immense growth in consumer platforms, which hasn't been aimed at purely photographic communities or uses.

Re: Photography Industry Landscape

Taylor Davidson — Mon, 20 May 2013 09:45:17 -0000

Thank you for the post, and I definitely have some thoughts as to the future of the buckets and how they might re-arrange in the future. Stay tuned for that, and looking forward to having that conversation with you!

Re: Infographic Maps Out the Landscape of the Photography Industry

Taylor Davidson — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:11:21 -0000

Pentax / Ricoh was a good suggestion. And you're probably right on Lensbaby. There are many accessories companies that could be included...

Re: KBS+ Ventures’ Taylor Davidson maps the photography industry landscape

Taylor Davidson — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:09:30 -0000

I think they have a a place to play in education, workshops, etc., a space I didn't include on the landscape for no tremendously great reason. They are like independent bookstores and music shops: community, culture, and broader offerings (i.e. perhaps coffee, beer and networking :) will be pretty key.

Re: KBS+ Ventures’ Taylor Davidson maps the photography industry landscape

Taylor Davidson — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:07:28 -0000

Next post :)

Re: Infographic Maps Out the Landscape of the Photography Industry

Taylor Davidson — Wed, 15 May 2013 09:41:37 -0000

As I pointed out above and in my writings about how to use the landscape, I'm more interested in the structure of the buckets and pointing out innovative companies within each business model bucket than pointing out each company in each bucket. Picking out companies is just a way to provide examples for the higher-order thinking around the buckets and the value chain it represents.

Re: Infographic Maps Out the Landscape of the Photography Industry

Taylor Davidson — Wed, 15 May 2013 03:26:21 -0000

Good points. Some of the companies on the landscape have green boxes around them to signify they had been acquired (not well footnoted), but good points on those specifically.

To be frank I'm more interested in the buckets than the specific companies. The companies to me are examples of the major areas of the industry, looking at the value chain of how the industry works. And for that kind of thinking, picking every company is less important than the groupings of business models, and finding innovative or differentiated companies within groupings is more important than noting every company that provides the same service.

But while some omissions were intentional, others (like Leica) were not intentional. I made a couple edits based on the comments in these discussions, thank you to everyone.

Re: Infographic Maps Out the Landscape of the Photography Industry

Taylor Davidson — Wed, 15 May 2013 01:48:59 -0000

Goal wasn't necessarily to pick the largest companies, but to be representative of innovative approaches. Thus it's important to show innovative companies, and that's why Lytro is on there. Representative, not exhaustive.

Re: TedR * Tumblr — One health insurance company recently bought data...

Taylor Davidson — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:38:49 -0000

I sent him a note to tell him and pointed him to Greg :)

Re: Video Of The Week: The kbs+ Ventures Interview

Taylor Davidson — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:22:44 -0000

Thanks :)

Re: Video Of The Week: The kbs+ Ventures Interview

Taylor Davidson — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:52:28 -0000

Thanks for the notes. I'll add a bit of commentary because I was the one asking Fred the questions, and the production and editing was done by our video team at kbs.

Good points on branding, but at the same time, we really just wanted to focus the video on Fred and his thoughts.

Our blog post about the video ( http://blog.kbsp.vc/post/43... ) gives a bit more context, but you're right, we didn't do the same setup and explanation in the video itself.

What's interesting is that while it's short at 13 minutes, it's also long compared to web video in general. There's a lot of pressure to make video under 2-3 minutes, but content like this deserves more than 2-3 minutes. We debated different ways to cut the video (into different videos per question, or part 1 / part 2, or under 10 minutes, etc.), but liked the way this felt, so we left it longer.

I would love to see more web video content like this also (and we are doing more video interviews like this, btw), but this takes professionals and isn't inexpensive to produce :)

Re: Video Of The Week: The kbs+ Ventures Interview

Taylor Davidson — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:37:49 -0000

Thank you. Our video-editing team at kbs did the editing. They edited it to focus on Fred's key points, which was easy to do because Fred gives such great insights in easy-to-understand ways.

Re: Video Of The Week: The kbs+ Ventures Interview

Taylor Davidson — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:34:25 -0000

His point about writing for the layman was one of those things that has stuck with me ever since.

Re: Music, Technology, Art, Economy

Taylor Davidson — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:25:56 -0000

What won't work? The social recommendation problem, no. The relevant search issue, quite possibly.

Re: Music, Technology, Art, Economy

Taylor Davidson — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:55:24 -0000

So maybe "buying likes" will eventually be worth it? :)

Re: whatevernevermind

Taylor Davidson — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:05:32 -0000

Interestingly, I've gotten into Snapseed after I posted this. And then Flickr launched a completely redone app that I really like. And Instagram miscommunicates their TOS and the Internet gets all up in arms. Never a dull moment.

Re: Ch-ch-ch-changes

Taylor Davidson — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:43:58 -0000

Search is definitely coming back :) FB like is coming back, as is a new header and nav bar.

But more importantly, that big white empty box and space to create is back. Looking forward to you taking advantage of it!

Re: http://www.natsturner.com/post/25925939328

Taylor Davidson — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:22:20 -0000

Re: data around co-founding groups and outcomes, the Startup Genome / Startup Compass report might have some relevant data.

Re: Kishi Bashi Tiny Desk Concert

Taylor Davidson — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 08:52:02 -0000

Incredible.

(Btw, love the new design :)

Re: Now

Taylor Davidson — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:56:16 -0000

Welcome back!

Re: Crowdfunding

Taylor Davidson — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:27:37 -0000

Smart investors will not be scared off by an entrepreneur that has demonstrated the demand for their product, mobilized a community, jumpstarted their marketing and press, and convinced hundreds / thousands of people to invest in them. In my mind that's an asset, not a liability.

I'm confident that the crowdfunding portals will create standard terms and equity share class structures that will provide the necessary control and voting provisions so as to not preclude them from potential institutional investment.

It's not a question of either/or crowdfunding, angel or institutional VC: it's a question of whether it's right for the entrepreneur, for the business, for their stage, for what they are doing.

Re: Conversation Agent: Why Google+ is as Special as Macintosh

Taylor Davidson — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:11:55 -0000

Interestingly, I've found Google Hangout to be the most appealing part of the service, like you, the feature I like the best. So simple, and as voice and chat get increasingly merged, pretty solid as a communication structure.