#13 Stevie: Choosing the right advisors for your startup | IoT | Games | Tech
04/06/15 • 42 min
Yael Givon. Founder, CEO
Yael co-founded Steveie with her husband Gil Ramon. They met at an internet camp for founders and entrepreneurs. They both have backgrounds in creative fields. Yeal has a background in fine art and Gil is screen writer and programmer.
Stevie was created when they saw the potential to find great TV that was hiding in their social media feeds. During Arab Spring, they were watching Youtube, tracking Twitter and Facebook to get a complete picture of what was happening.
Stevie makes it possible for anyone to have a personal channel with friend's feeds or for their own brand without any extra work. It also provides more opportunities for publishers to ad more to the video they are already releasing. Some examples could be bloopers, behind the scenes interviews and insights from the latest episode of a show.
Also on the podcast:Yael defines what “smart money” is. Taking money from people who are in your industry with experience who can offer advice, more connections and a bigger network. Not all money is equal.
Xue Mei and Yael discuss what advisors should be given stake in your company. It should be people who can offer real advice.
They talk about the reality of the close relationship you will have with your investors. Yael talks about how as entrepreneurs, our comfort zone in the product. The business end of things is less fun, but it is an area everyone has to grow into. The challenge is to grow your business mind while not sacrificing your creative energy.
Yael advises startups to be careful about spending money for special advisors, like marketing advisors, because some stuff you should learn on your own. Many startups who succeeded, didn’t have tons of marketing knowledge, but they found a gap in the market to fill.
Yeal and Xue Mei talk about confronting the startup life bubble and finding the balance between making cool stuff for hipsters and being relevant to the world. Meaningful solutions in industries like health and sustainability take much longer to see a return than an entertaining app. There’s often less hype to lure investors, but good investors understand they need to diversify risks and not only invest in new stuff from the cool kids.
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Yael Givon. Founder, CEO
Yael co-founded Steveie with her husband Gil Ramon. They met at an internet camp for founders and entrepreneurs. They both have backgrounds in creative fields. Yeal has a background in fine art and Gil is screen writer and programmer.
Stevie was created when they saw the potential to find great TV that was hiding in their social media feeds. During Arab Spring, they were watching Youtube, tracking Twitter and Facebook to get a complete picture of what was happening.
Stevie makes it possible for anyone to have a personal channel with friend's feeds or for their own brand without any extra work. It also provides more opportunities for publishers to ad more to the video they are already releasing. Some examples could be bloopers, behind the scenes interviews and insights from the latest episode of a show.
Also on the podcast:Yael defines what “smart money” is. Taking money from people who are in your industry with experience who can offer advice, more connections and a bigger network. Not all money is equal.
Xue Mei and Yael discuss what advisors should be given stake in your company. It should be people who can offer real advice.
They talk about the reality of the close relationship you will have with your investors. Yael talks about how as entrepreneurs, our comfort zone in the product. The business end of things is less fun, but it is an area everyone has to grow into. The challenge is to grow your business mind while not sacrificing your creative energy.
Yael advises startups to be careful about spending money for special advisors, like marketing advisors, because some stuff you should learn on your own. Many startups who succeeded, didn’t have tons of marketing knowledge, but they found a gap in the market to fill.
Yeal and Xue Mei talk about confronting the startup life bubble and finding the balance between making cool stuff for hipsters and being relevant to the world. Meaningful solutions in industries like health and sustainability take much longer to see a return than an entertaining app. There’s often less hype to lure investors, but good investors understand they need to diversify risks and not only invest in new stuff from the cool kids.
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#12 The new way to record ux with Lookback / European startups in games and iot
In this episode you will hear Nevyn Bengtsson, lead ios developer at Lookback. Lookback lets developers record and review the screen, gestures, face and sound of their app testers
You will hear about:
- How their product is making UX research and bug reporting easier than ever for app develpers.
- The tools Lookback uses to manage their global team
- And more!
There's much more over at http://startupcabin.com
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#14-Univrses: How Mobile VR Will Change Gaming
Ricky Helgesson, CEO of Univrses
Ricky has been programming since he was 10 years old, and has extensive experience in tech, gaming and creating companies. In this podcast, Ricky offers some great insights into the rise of VR, mobile technology and gaming. His most recent company is Univrses, a mobile VR tracking solution.
Univrses is adding positional tracking to mobile virtual reality. No cables, no expensive hardware, no external trackers - just you and your legs. With only a smart phone and a simple VR headset like Google Cardboard, you can map out your playing space and move freely through a virtual world.
Ricky goes deep into the details of what makes Univrses such a unique and exciting product. You'll learn all about the features and the technology behind it. In the photo below, you see Ricky overseeing a user testing out a prototype of their product. With movement accuracy within 5mm, the VR experience is truly immersive. She better be careful with that bat.
Also on the podcast:Xue Mei and Ricky discuss possible new applications of VR in games and talk about how this new technology will offer new challenges to developers.
Ricky talks about the exciting possibility to have synced gameplay with users around the world in a virtual environment. This video shows how you would see other players in a virtual world.
You will hear about "Wands: The Magic Duel", the game Ricky and his team are developing to demonstrate the Univrses technology. Wands will soon be on Kickstarter. Here are some images they have released on Twitter ( @univrses)
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