You’ll Never Make Money with a Music App
I’ve said this a million times and i’ll say it again for the record. If you’re a music internet application and you have full music streams, you’re not making any money. I was reminded about this...
View ArticleThe Story of Qloud
The 2 years from 2006 to 2008 Toby and I built a company called Qloud from nothing to over 20 million monthly users. Those years were some of the craziest years I’ve ever had both professionally and...
View ArticleFrom VP to the Futon: Living in the Basement (Qloud 1 of 14)
This is the first of some posts about the story of Qloud. It’s now been over 8 years so I should start sharing the stories. This first post is about how Toby and I made the leap to quick our jobs and...
View ArticleQloud Fundraising: Striking out in Silicon Valley (Part 2 of 14)
This is post #2 about the Qloud experience. The previous post was about jumping ship and starting the company. Once we started Qloud, we started building the product and also started fundraising....
View ArticleOn the Case: Getting Investment from Steve Case (Qloud 3 of 14)
This is post #3 about the Qloud experience. The previous post was about our initial fundraising experience in Silicon Valley and DC. Seven months into the Qloud process we secured financing from...
View ArticleLaunching the world’s first real music search engine (Qloud 4 of 14)
This is post #4 about the Qloud experience. The previous post was about our getting funding from Steve Case. Qloud’s initial product was a music search engine. It was based on a few assumptions....
View ArticleDeveloping in Romania (Qloud 5 of 12)
This is post #5 about the Qloud experience. The previous post was about launching our first product – a music search engine. When we started building Qloud we found some developers in Romania. This...
View ArticleInspiration Strikes: Pivoting (Qloud 6 of 14)
This is post #6 about the Qloud experience. The previous post was about Developing our service in Romania. We had launched the world’s first music search service that searched on tags and usage. It...
View ArticleIn the Abyss: Running out of money (Qloud 7 of 14)
This is post #7 about the Qloud experience. The previous post was about about our massive product pivot. We launched our initial product and the public reaction was terrible. The usage was low....
View ArticleMusic Technology in 2007 and Our Use of YouTube (8 of 14)
This is post #8 about the Qloud experience. The previous post was about about running out of money and pivoting. The year is 2007 and Toby and I have a great idea to build a comprehensive music...
View ArticleQloud and Facebook’s Platform (9 of 14)
This is post #9 about the Qloud experience. The previous post was about about how we used YouTube as a music engine. Read that post here. The year is 2007 and we’re building as fast as we can our new...
View ArticleAchieving Massive Growth (Qloud story 11 of 14)
This is post #11 about the Qloud experience. The previous post was about about the launch of Qloud. You can read that here. Once we launched, we grew extremely fast. I have to say that being part of...
View ArticleSelling to Buzznet (Qloud story 12 of 14)
This is post #12 about the Qloud experience. The previous post was about about the launch of Qloud. You can read that here. Towards the end of 2007, we knew we had great growth but an unsustainable...
View ArticleLaunching Qloud (Part 10 of 14)
This is post #10 about the Qloud experience. The previous post was about about how we used got into the Facebook Platform program. You can read that here. We decided to pivot the product to become a...
View ArticleWhat Success Feel Like
It’s an interesting thing. First, the timing on an acquisition is nuts. It takes forever. The process looked like this: We first found Buzznet. We talk back and forth with Buzznet for months about...
View ArticleNon-Obvious Fundraising Learnings
I’ve been a co-founder in two VC-backed startups: Qloud. We raised $3.5 million from Steve Case’s Revolution fund (sold for $8.5 to BuzzMedia) Kapost. We’ve raised $20m from Salesforce, Floodgate (SF),...
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