Category: Startups

Floodgate’s Mike Maples: Network Businesses Will Disrupt Your Business | Fortune.com

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This is a great read. Lots to take apart in this one.

Floodgate’s Mike Maples: Network Businesses Will Disrupt Your Business | Fortune.com:

Today, I am convinced that:

Software-defined networks will be the most valuable businesses, displacing traditional corporations as central actors.

Networks can bring exponential improvements in prosperity throughout the world.

Networks will encounter fierce resistance from traditional businesses, governments, and other parts of society that don’t want a different future.

Tech leaders are part of the problem, and this needs to change for networks to realize their full potential.

Surveying the travel startup landscape, part 2: Front line tips from the founders | PhocusWire

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Good read. Has some solid advice from a few people but one of my fav’s is Amit from RedDoorz.

Surveying the travel startup landscape, part 2: Front line tips from the founders | PhocusWire:

Amit Saberwal is founder and CEO of RedDoorz, which has more than 500 budget properties in 16 Indonesian cities, Singapore and the Philippines. Founded in 2015, RedDoorz handles distribution, pricing, marketing, customer service and technology for properties under its brand, but it does not own them. RedDoorz has raised $20 million in funding. Before launching RedDoorz, Saberwal was chief business officer at MakeMyTrip.

Beware of one-sided partnerships. Your startup’s time is too valuable

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I don’t like everything Steve says but this one resonates.

I always tell startups be careful with Bizdev and partnerships early on.

Generally the other company, not the startup, is getting the benefits but the startups is doing all the work.

This takes valuable time from running the startup.

Be alert.

Beware of one-sided partnerships. Your startup’s time is too valuable:

AWS Summit: Subin Subaiah, CEO of Spuul & Spokkz, On Their Successful Partnership with AWS

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Always warms my heart to see Spuul still rocking.

Sometimes the smaller guys in the OTT space are often overlooked.

Spuul continues to break new ground and evolve with the space.

AWS Summit: Subin Subaiah, CEO of Spuul & Spokkz, On Their Successful Partnership with AWS:

Originally, Spuul was based on a subscription video on demand (SVOD) based, whereby subscribers would watch movies from a catalogue that Spuul had in its portfolio. However, as the service expanded to more countries, demands for linear TV watching increased in different regions of the world and this was not longer possible to accomplish in house. Therefore, a partnership with AWS was needed.