Comments on: When it comes to startups timing really is everything

By: Ayinde Alakoye

Ayinde Alakoye — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 20:59:10 +0000

A couple of young guys started a service back in 2003 to bring every radio station on the planet to your cell phone…. We partnered with Clear Channel and had some meaningful interest from carriers like Verizon, but we predated the iPod’s ubiquity and the Dawn of the App. Great article. A theme we know all too well, but one that we’ve used to drive us forward with a new company that seems to have the right timing…

By: Ziggy Stace

Ziggy Stace — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 17:45:55 +0000

No matter how fast the ad industry can spend money on new outlets not being intrgrated into the POP ad displays in public buildings is the same as Amazon not capitalizing on the still popular “going shopping ” and putting pickup centers and a place where seeing a product online is not a closer.
So much is going to cross a persons screen from now on keeping track of what you want from all those ads and offers is going to be a deal killer for ad sales online and on devices in hand.
Seeing a huge LED sign with full motion video in hi def with surrond sound right in front of a stores where the product reside and whos sales offer is there to respond to is like saying we can do without radi and TV ads now.
Google, Facbook and Twitter all suffer from not having a third leg to their ad programs…..POP in Public buildings. Stadiums, Shopping Malls, Cinemas and public areas where products are avalible is till the closer for now and many years to come. With texting and bar code features thos display ads grab attention and then close the deal by sending the shopper along with that offer they missed on their devices to the actual merch to buy….that being the only goal of advertising..sell sell and sell, or now money for all those neat ad formats to survive!!

By: aseemjuneja

aseemjuneja — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:28:44 +0000

Om – Kozmo’s CTO Chris Siragusa started maxdelivery.com

By: David Mytton

David Mytton — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:04:30 +0000

The availability of high speed internet is also probably one of the reasons why “the cloud” is such a popular concept now. Previously you wanted to run your software locally, on site, because it would be faster to access. There’s no way you’d run accounting, word processing or file storage over the internet. Now we can stream music (from iTunes Match), collaborate on docs in Google Apps and have software delivered as a service.

“The cloud” is the same kind of web hosting that’s always been available, it’s just packaged differently for businesses and provided as the layer powering services to consumers.

By: Neil Young

Neil Young — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:08:35 +0000

Can you believe David Perry got away with selling Gaikai to Sony for a whopping $400 million? Its hilarious.

The truth is that the problem with these services is not with BANDWIDTH.

The problem is that it takes a whole PC to run a game like Call of Duty and thus Gaikai and Onlive would need millions of servers to really offer these games to the masses.

Gaikai sold a demo to Sony…. a Fantasy…

Its nice that they can claim to be a future technology.

Maybe Facebook should do the same. Pretending they will make money in the future but not yet today.

Its bullcrap.

Truth is that Sony will be out of business before Gaikai type technology ever happens?

Do we really need less local CPUs? No. Our Phones now have strong CPUs.

Cloud gaming should be defined as Multi-Player gaming. Not that a company sends the entire screen to your device 20 times a second. That is just stupid.

If Gaikai really had something they wouldnt have sold out. They had just raised $50 million.

Truth is they had nothing.

And Sony is so stupid for buying them.

By: Jagadish

Jagadish — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:01:08 +0000

On a similar note, does it hold good to say “let the fires keep burning” by keeping the burn rate really low i.e do not kill the idea if overall concept or fundamentals sound fine. Sometimes it takes time for some ideas to gain acceptance which again can be due to various reasons – market readiness, current technology limitations etc.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 03:08:15 +0000

Thanks for sharing Dave. What is the name of that service – i guess I would love to chat with him.

By: Dave Smiddy

Dave Smiddy — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 02:45:56 +0000

One of the guys who founded Kozmo carried the mission forth and has a NYC only delivery service for all kinds of stuff (think Pharmacy, Grocery, food). It’s been active for almost a decade.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 02:28:31 +0000

I am waiting for Kozmo to come back.

By: Chris Galasso

Chris Galasso — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:34:25 +0000

It still remains a problem of demand / density / avg order / low revenue per delivery vs high cost of operating vehicles (or using ICs who don’t understand same). Postmates / Shutl / grocery delivery “maybe” viable top 10 US markets. Come back in another half generation or so.