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Founder , Mediapops.com (Owner)
www.mediapops.com,
http://russwhitmanperspectives.blogspot.com/
Seattle, Washington, United States
Business owner
Member since: February 11, 2008
Russ Whitman has been developing startups and new products since 1996. His latest venture is a media discovery and notification Web 2.0 service - MEdiapops.com. "I am excited to be a part of the transformation to the Social Web, where MySpace and Facebook profiles are the new portals and users contribute to the content marketplace".
Whitman is the past President for a Consumer Electronics and Software company – Icebox, LLC where he lead the development and market launch of the icebox product line, culminating in the sale to Salton, Inc in 2002.
Following the transition of Icebox, Whitman started Digital Home Group a Strategic Consulting and Product Development Group whose clients included Microsoft, HP, Sears, Cisco, IBM and GM.
In 2006 Whitman lead the strategic partnership effort with Passalong Networks for the OnTour product and continues in the advancement of the OnTour business. Russ has a passion to develop new ideas that have substantive consumer value, loves to find opportunities in “gaps” that exist in the consumer marketplace.
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Reena,
Good interview, interesting look inside how a big VC looks at deals. I do think its interesting that he stated they are looking at deals that could become billion dollar sized companies, that sure limits the deal flow.
I really appreciated his comments on the team aspect, and how closely they look at how the team works together.
on How to get funded (or not!): Tim Draper chats with IvyBrain (May 01, 2008)
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Love the beatbox! Love the concept, its going to need to develop alot of user love to be valuable. If they can leverage a location specific social network play in here they can be huge (see http://www.techcr...
on Buzzd (April 09, 2008)
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Holi-Moli! I don't want to be a nay-sayer out of the box, because the truth is I can see some real value potentially here. Moli is competing with other Soc-Nets in a unique way - by enabling users to "control" their "privacy". Not a bad idea, but really all they do is add an additional layer to what most others do, so I think they are potentially going to miss the opportunity. I think that privacy is not the problem, its the message. I think they are correct that individuals and companies have different messages to different markets, and having one web space that enables me to "control" those messages has value. So the real question is can they connect their marketing message to a large enough market for it to be worthwhile. As a person or a biz, choosing a Soc Net with so few users compared to Myspace, Facebook, Hi 5, Ning... seems like a risky choice. As an individual everyone I know is on this or that network and I want to make it easy to be with them. As a business I want to be where the market is. I think this one is likely DOA. Sori Moli.
on MOLI DEMO 08 (April 05, 2008)
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Look, Friend Feed is a really great service and poised to really take advantage of the market, but that video sucks! They better have a good PR firm, or start using their user base to create a pitch video. Hey thats a great idea! FF you should reach out to your very talented user base to build a "what is friend feed" video and give away a free iPod!
on FriendFeed (April 04, 2008)
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Very Cool, as long as they continue to aggregate great content they have a serious play in the market. It would be interesting if they could develop an OpenSocial/Facebook model where individuals could post content they felt was interesting and generate revenues from their MySpace pages.......
on Mochila (February 26, 2008)
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