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Re: Piccsy Pitchdeck

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Post by Tloewald »

danvoell wrote: post #70
Tloewald wrote: post #60

For a pitch deck it made zero sense to me. "the problem" was a bunch of unreadable junk. "the solution" was...? Wtf?

Agreed, the problem was way to difficult to understand. People are just wooed by moving circles I guess.

If they're saying what I think they're saying then I think a simple screenshot of an image sharing menu from a well chosen iOS camera app would probably do the trick for "the problem" but I'm not convinced their "solution" would be any better (instead of share via one of twenty different services, you need to pick which of twenty different features from one service to check off).

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Post by christofd »

tptacek wrote: post #2

Team has no apparent prior company operations experience, let alone M&A success. "Technical" team member isn't a "founder". They're in photo sharing and clearly following in Pinterest's footsteps. Yet, took the time to build an extremely well-designed, intricate, graphical investment pitch in HTML. Not sure if that's an antipattern or not. Certainly, an equivalently beautiful presentation aimed at prospective users o…

alarms were going off when I read "pitch deck"...

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Post by redguava »

The "Visits vs Uniques" graph is one of the worst I have seen. When your Y-Axis has such variable jumps it just makes the graph completely irrelevant. I would say it was intentionally skewed to mislead, but sometimes the jumps work in your favor and sometimes not, so I just can't understand the reasoning.

Equally spaced increments go by 500k, 1mm, 500k, 1mm, 600k.

Charts are meant to give a visual representation of data, if you skew the chart then you may as well be skewing the numbers.

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Post by WiseWeasel »

pclark wrote: post #10

I don't understand the problem slide. what do the size of the bubbles reflect? it isn't consumer spend or market size.

It's definitely the most confusing one to me, and it only gets more so the more you study it. It's almost as if the circles were designed first, and then the groups of text were randomly assigned a circle. It's peculiar that stock photography and blogs are the biggest circles. Maybe they're what the majority of their users actually use the service for? Then there's the grouping and positioning. It's strange to me that Tumblr is in bookmarking instead of blogging, or that blogging is attached to postcards and image bookmarking and not blogs. Why are the things in bookmarking not grouped with Instagram, and why is Twitter with Instagram instead of Tumblr or Pinterest.

So I guess the main point they're trying to make is that you have to go to all these sites to do this stuff, but they give it all to you in one place. What's slightly strange to me is that there are a lot of sites in the problem area whose content isn't in the solutions area, so it's maybe not clear if this is providing some of that content or all of it. Maybe a clever graphic indicating logical process, like a funnel or something sorting and processing the problem balls for you as you scroll down would make more sense (and be less creepy than Daniel's blinking mug looking at me).

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Post by joshu »

_b8r0 wrote: post #42
tptacek wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I promise: no snark intended with this question, but I don't know a better way to ask it: does starting a design shop count as company operations experience in startupland? Totally prepared for the answer to be "yes". And clearly there are design shops that have become serious companies, with growth trajectories, quarterly and yearly revenue forecasts, employee turnover, the whole nine yards. Is Moxy one?

I totally see where you're coming from on this, but I think you're placing an awful lot of importance on things that might not be that important. I'd say starting a design shop could count as company ops experience, but not everyone who starts a startup has experience. Indeed, people start up without experience all the time. From the looks of the presentation they have an MVP, have users and have burned through less…

Actual angel here.

Ops is not that hard for a startup.

M&A? Build something people want and it will happen.

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Post by MaysonL »

Beautiful?? Beautiful??

You have got to be kidding.

Blinking eyes - balloons blowing up: it doesn't have the visual appeal of a Roadrunner / Wile E. Coyote cartoon, let alone something like the mother of all demos.

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Post by drumdance »

tptacek wrote: post #16
_b8r0 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Team has no apparent prior company operations experience, let alone M&A success. The advisors do have M&A experience, and that may well be why they have them. Two of the team founded a company called Moxy, so they'll have some operations experience. Not everyone needs it to start up and an investor should look at the details, not the flashy site. > "Technical" team member isn't a "founder". I'm not aware that this…

I promise: no snark intended with this question, but I don't know a better way to ask it: does starting a design shop count as company operations experience in startupland? Totally prepared for the answer to be "yes". And clearly there are design shops that have become serious companies, with growth trajectories, quarterly and yearly revenue forecasts, employee turnover, the whole nine yards. Is Moxy one?

At scale, I think running a creative servies business is much harder than a typical tech startup. Mapping billable hours to bodies, some of who you haven't even hired yet, is a difficult process that's hard to scale.
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