情報収集のメソッドを変えてみようと
Newspicksとかsmartnewsが出る前は情報が行き渡ってないこともあって情弱ばっかだったんだけどやっぱそういうのもいづれは終わるわけで俺なりに持っていた情報収集のメソッドも今となっては大分使えなくなってしまいました。ほんの２、３年くらい前の話なのにね。んでちょっともっとニッチで旬な情報を手に入れるべく現在自分なりに情報収集のメソッドをつくろうと模索中です。まあメソッドというか基本的なフレームは前とあまり変わらないかもしれないけど、分野を大幅に変えて行こうかなと。分野にもよるけどどうしても日本って情報が回ってくるのが遅いイメージだなまだまだ。メソッドメソッド言っても仕方ないのでここ１週間はひたすらネットでググりまくってその分野についてリサーチかけてみることにします。そんでもうちょっと体系的に説明できるようになったらまたメソッドでも何でも考えられるものは考えていこうかなと。情報を大量に浴びるのって個人的には大切だと思ってるので。アイデアとか生まれやすいしね。そんで色々見てたら面白い記事に出会ったので以下抜粋しときます。お題はどうやら「VCが興味を持ちたがるスタートアップの特徴」を箇条書きでまとめたものらしいです。
- Companies that provide tools and services needed to make mobile applications and their business models work. These include Flurry (mobile analytics), AdMob (mobile advertising) and Urban Airship (mobile push messaging) to name a few. These are solutions for mobile application developers and these companies have straightforward business models that make sense for a venture investor.
- Mobile applications that use your device’s location to enable new services. Uber and Lyft/Sidecar (ordering a ride when you need it), HotelTonight and Airbnb (find a place to stay overnight). There’s also Wrapp (mobile gift card gifting with in-store redemption) and Gigwalk (provides a mobile workforce of more than 100,000 across the US that can perform paid tasks for enterprise customers). These businesses take a percentage of a transaction, again a straightforward business. Another interesting service based on device location is Life360 (enables you to track the location of your family/friends in real time without disturbing them with a text or call).
- Mobile applications that control non-mobile products and services such as Nest (mobile control of building thermostats) or eSecure (mobile control of building alarm systems). The mobile application to control my Dish Network recording also falls into this camp. These mobile applications make other services much more useful and are reason enough to convince me to buy those services, even if no money is generated directly from the mobile application. RelayRides, a peer-to-peer car rental service, has a mobile application that allows me to open a GM OnStar rental car’s door without a key. These types of mobile applications make a solution more useful because they provide on-the-go access.
- Mobile payments such as Square take a transaction fee, and they can also provide loyalty programs and couponing. There are many mobile payments related companies with their own twist, but they all have a strong value proposition for all parties involved.
- Mobile games – Angry Birds, Minecraft, most of the top applications in the app store are games. Though it is a hit driven business, the winners generate hundreds of millions of dollars in sales.
- Photo applications include Instagram, Cinemagram and Snapchat. Mobile messaging applications include WhatsApp, Voxer, Tango and Kik. These companies typically don’t have early proven business models, but the winners at scale can figure it out. These types of products are often the most useful and engaging on a smartphone.
