Greg Battle
Internet Svengali. Ignoble Mogul. Entreprenerd. Hotshot Guitarist. Bit Fiddler. Push Up Lover. Dad. PHIL/NJ/NYC
Profile
Summary
Experience
- Dec 2009 - PresentConsultant at bit.ly / bit.lyGuided the product launch of and revenue discovery for bit.ly Pro and bit.ly Enterprise, the free and premium versions of branded URL shortening service resulting in over 14,000 requests and 2,500 customers including many large brands, publishers, retailers, campaigns and personalities. Branding, messaging, customer discovery and on-boarding process.
- Jan 2009 - PresentDigital Media Consultant / Self Employed- Takkle (High School Sports Social Network): Active advisor from 2006 to acquisition by Alloy in Q1 2009. - ServNation (Enterprise Software): Business plan, financials, investor and marketing materials review - Selerity Corporation (Financial Technology): Advised on go-to-market strategy, candidate search, due diligence, authored marketing strategy for web and print materials - PopTok (Online Video): Advised on corporate restructuring, rebranding, refocus of strategy resulting in the birth of AnyClip.com, TechCrunch 50 2009 Audience Award Winners. - Vibe (Print and Digital Magazine): Advised on the redevelopment of digital strategy including online/print convergence, content aggregation, audience segmentation/engagement, partnership and revenue optimization.
- Sept 2006 - PresentCo-founder and Chief Software Architect / Global Grind Digital Inc., LLC(http://globalgrind.com) Hip-hop automated and social news site combining multi-media aggregation, community and cultural relevancy funded by Russell Simmons and Accel Partners.
- Jun 2005 - PresentHedge Fund Associate / Trigram Capital Management, LP
- Aug 2003 - PresentMBA Candidate 2005 / The Wharton School
- Feb 2000 - PresentLead Developer / BET Interactive, LLC
- Dec 1995 - PresentVice President / Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette
- May 1995 - PresentConsultant / Chemical Bank
- Sept 1992 - PresentSenior Programming Analyst / Sanwa Securities
Education
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2003 - 2005University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton SchoolMBA in Finance
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1988 - 1992Princeton UniversityBSE in Computer Science
Additional Information
My Resume
Posts
Take the banal. Rethink it. Make it creepy.
Stanton Moore - “Stanton Hits The Bottle” - All Kooked Out! He’s literally hitting the bottle. Fresh drummer grooves.
Pinterest Marketing Platform
Rafer sez:
Three very smart words to put together.
(via rafer)
gbattle sez:
Apu Gupta and the crew are a great crew. He and I had a few pre-pivot discussions. However, it’s not a pivot. It’s a reboot.
Gizelle Smith & The Mighty Mocambos - “The Time Is Right For Love” - This is Gizelle Smith & The Mighty Mocambos. Grit-n-soul.
Tonight’s dinner: Chicken and waffles with maple syrup.
Or, as radiantmeatball put it, I really am kinda southern.
I also made kale, but who cares about that?
Things that you can’t see, blues playing in the background and my buzz.
gbattle sez:
The best thing about living 5 minutes away from section9 is that I can see his food posts and roll over there quickly. The worst thing about living 5 minutes away from section9? Ummm, his other posts, and knowing I can’t move farther away fast enough.
Fried chicken won this time. Pray for me.
Kylie Auldist - “Everybody Here Wants You” - Just Say. Jeff Buckley cover is the weekender-ender.
“I’m only here for this moment …”
“The fact of the matter is, you don’t give up what’s natural. Anything I’ve fantasized about, I’ve done.” - Ray Charles
“Dizzy Gillespie For President” pin from his actual run in 1963. He would have renamed The White House to be The Blues House. America chose unwisely.
The full stack o’ pancakes at the Brownstone Diner. This is for a few Tumblr friends that are big fans of this place…
Om nom nom! I’m so very jealous of you at the moment.
You bastard. Where’s my invite??
gbattle sez:
<3 Brownstone.
“It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.” - Ornette Coleman
Marlena Shaw - “California Soul” - Spice of Life. Good times in LA and SF this week. Mandatory CA driving song.
Updates
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Photo: Best hand job in Jersey City. No contest. http://t.co/3NTPp6Dy
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Just sat in on a jazz blues with the great Winard Harper. The bug is coming back. So swinging. Beware NYC/NJ ... I am back.
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@ReformedBroker The one thing i love in the markets is fear and uncertainty. Second Market removed $FB's initial uncertainty many Xs over.
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@ReformedBroker Not sure about that. What is the liquidation value of $FB? Tricky calculation.
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@jstylman why treat Eduardo Saverin like Roman Polanski? I don't get it ...
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Great comparison: "@backupify: Check out how Google Drive stacks up to Dropbox, Box and the like: http://t.co/LEuFu1HD"
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@bussgang @witheiler Complaining that$FB didn't pop is like celebrating a big tax return ie. interest free loan to government. Dumb.
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So, I hear Facebook is removing all privacy and sharing controls on their equity today. Interesting feature. $FB
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So wait ... We lost Donna Summer *and* Chuck Brown? Sad day.
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@bikenyc what is up with all the flesh eating bacteria scares of late? crazy ... Brain eating $FB mania may be crazier. Time will tell ...
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@JohnMaloney @milkstudios @Borthwick I agree, kudos to the @betaworks crew for nailing yet another #betaday3 days ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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@tyahma @aweissman @heidimesser @saadiq @denmark313 @nycup how did i miss this massive collection of brain cells? dayum.3 days ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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@Toure You still beefing with Piers man? C'mon, it's not that serious brother.
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Photo: My man, Charles, getting his eat on at #betaday. It’s good to be the king. http://t.co/6nPpV9pL
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@jordancooper damn you jordan cooper. damn you to hell! [insert jealousy here]. promise me, no spoilers!4 days ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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Photo: “Intellistreets is the wireless digital infrastructure that controls, monitors & maintains the... http://t.co/l61Ngh2z
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Audio: Stanton Moore - “Stanton Hits The Bottle” - All Kooked Out! He’s literally hitting the bottle. Fresh... http://t.co/8w019LLH
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"Pinterest Marketing Platform" - Look Out: Pinterest Marketing Platform Curalate Lands $750k Seed From NEA,... http://t.co/Jm0hBwy0
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@thenewb it's not black hat. It is gangsta though.
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Is there an online version of this game? An app? I used to *love* this game!
I love Charles and Nate too, but there's just so many other things to talk about.
I think you might be surprised to learn just how many people may be interested in traffic analysis software. As entrepreneurs get that much more serious about data as it relates to growth, or publishers rethink how to reward journalists based upon customer acquisition rather than word count, or ecommerce sites think about split testing funnel optimizations to maximize gross merchandise sales, they're going to need better tools that offer actionable output over Y.A.D. (yet another dashboard).
You guys are addicted to talking about PictureLife. (Not a bad thing)
Protocol != Interface != API. Not sure who is teaching these things to folks today. Protocols are definitions, not implementations. There are no TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, XMPP, SSH "provider", simply implementations of a protocol/data definition. Read up on RFCs. By definition, protocols are open standards.
An easy analogy. Socket wrenches. 1/2 inch socket is a definition, but every tool manufacturer can put out their own set and have it function properly by adhering to a standard or protocol.
Twitter, Facebook, Twilio all have APIs which are openly available but privately owned and centrally controlled.
That's the best line ever. It never gets old!
+1.
There must be depth behind your rationale to pivot, beyond the quantitative analyses, beyond a time horizon, beyond your iteration turns left at your current burn rate.
Oddly, too many entrepreneurs are thinking that investor capital offers them the right to pivot ad infinitum. Let's get technical here: in basketball, a pivot is where, after you've stopped dribbling, you keep one foot on the ground and rotate around with the other one. A lot of these so called pivots are hops or worse, traveling fouls where they start dribbling again.
Let's call the game like it we see it folks.
I think about this often, but know a few who've done some work on this. Fascinating space and approach. A reverse Turing for identity.
I question how many people get the quote? Hmmm. Long live the WU!
In essence Bryce, you are speaking of a classical Benjamin Graham value investing method, namely, that the price I pay is less than my pro-rata share of the liquidation value of the company. Liquidation preference effectively locks in the necessary floor and, like Mr. Graham, it is wise to consider the worst case scenario and let Mr. Market control the upper end.
However, I would love to hear more thinking about the liquidation value of an Instagram, Pinterest, Path or Quora. What assets/inventory could each sell in a fire sale and how much are they worth? This is where things get very, very interesting/illuminating, in a world of leased cloud computing, ephemeral users in a creator/attention economy, patent/IP avoidance, and low headcount lean startups, what's if any assets are there? There's a compelling argument that the liquidation value of say Instagram is far below the money they raised, but I'll defer to you and and cohorts for an answer.
Breaking bread is a realtime, interactive, social, hyperlocal and narrative platform.
The power of story and oral tradition will never be supplanted.
I know right? There's a lot of wisdom and insight in that. So much.
actually, i think the average vc backed acquisition was about $46mm a couple years ago when i researched it. but still, that's average. one instagram can certainly blow the average outward. i'm sure the median is closer to the ~$10mm that you said.
Thank you! I forgot about this post.
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In a world of increasing velocity of user growth and commensurate valuations, might there be a case to question where the rotational attention is coming from? Though you've explained who, from an investment perspective, is losing velocity, who is losing velocity in the attention economy to sustain this meteoric growth stories? Who is hit hardest by a hockeysticking Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr and OMGPOP? Might it be Facebook, Amazon, Google and Zynga respectively, or the supernumerous fast followers and sleepy incumbents? And, in a world of of accelerated growth, might this volatility turn against any of these high flyers just as quickly if not faster?
Though you called Instagram, I disagree with you Gary regarding Path. Path's growth/adoption for private networking just isn't there yet with a scant couple million users. Time will determine value of the Facebook halo-effect. I wish Dave and his crew the best.
You could do an entirely new survey on what an "overview of programming" entails. I look forward to seeing what you put together Albert!
+100
Nailed it.
