While I thoroughly enjoyed my time as a Wall Street analyst, compliance issues hampered my ability to blog on SecondShares. Now that I’m back angel investing, I look forward to sharing thoughts and analysis on the social and mobile companies I refer to as “Second Internet” companies. Just as first internet companies disrupted the offline leaders (e.g. Amazon v Walmart), Second Internet companies that are BORN social, will disrupt incumbent firs internet leaders. I first outlined my thesis in the only real deep thought piece I wrote “The Second Internet“, I have continued to evolve the thesis in a deck I also call “The Second Internet“. While the deck is meant to be given live (which I love doing, as it’s such a fun dynamic topic to discuss), a lot of value can be derived by reviewing the slides. Enjoy the deck, share it, and I look forward to future posts.
In this interview, David Lifson, founder & CEO of Postling, tells us how he raised $900k without any prior experience as an entrepreneur!
In this short 2 minute clip, Andy Monfried, explains how he developed the idea for Lotame, and how he convinced his teammates to join him to launch the business, and then how he convinced his initial customers to start using the product!
Andy went on to raise $34 million in venture capital, grew his staff to over 75 employees and double or tripled his revenue every year since its inception! This is a rock star founder! Truly inspiring.
Sean Rad, the founder of Ad.ly, explains in this interview how they convinced over 1,000 celebs, 100 of which have more than 1 million Twitter followers, to agree to be paid to send out tweets from advertisers!
Michael Downing, founder of Tout.com, explains how Tout has attracted several popular celebrities such as Shaq, Katie Couric and many others to join their service, within the first 5 months after launching!
Eric Jackson, co-founder and CEO of CapLinked, a social network for M&A and investor relations, tells us how Peter Thiel convinced him to join PayPal, which he later quit to write the book, PayPal Wars, and has since co-founded several startups including CapLinked.
