Comments on: What Riya Did Wrong (or, Why Companies Should Respect The Commercialization Phase; or, How To Make Expensive Funding Cheap) http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/09/17/what-riya-did-wrong-or-why-companies-should-respect-the-commercialization-phase-or-how-to-make-expensive-funding-cheap/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:15:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: What Riya Did Wrong Cont’d II at Disruptive Thoughts http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/09/17/what-riya-did-wrong-or-why-companies-should-respect-the-commercialization-phase-or-how-to-make-expensive-funding-cheap/#comment-21308 What Riya Did Wrong Cont’d II at Disruptive Thoughts Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:33:13 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/09/17/what-riya-did-wrong-or-why-companies-should-respect-the-commercialization-phase-or-how-to-make-expensive-funding-cheap/#comment-21308 [...] don’t mean to dwell. Really. But c’mon [...] […] don’t mean to dwell. Really. But c’mon […]

]]> By: What Riya Did Wrong Cont’d at Disruptive Thoughts http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/09/17/what-riya-did-wrong-or-why-companies-should-respect-the-commercialization-phase-or-how-to-make-expensive-funding-cheap/#comment-11012 What Riya Did Wrong Cont’d at Disruptive Thoughts Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:01:17 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/09/17/what-riya-did-wrong-or-why-companies-should-respect-the-commercialization-phase-or-how-to-make-expensive-funding-cheap/#comment-11012 [...] And that reminded me to revisit a previous post at Disruptive Thoughts, What Riya Did Wrong, and follow-up on the comments left by Riya’s CEO, Munjal Shah. [...] […] And that reminded me to revisit a previous post at Disruptive Thoughts, What Riya Did Wrong, and follow-up on the comments left by Riya’s CEO, Munjal Shah. […]

]]> By: Munjal Shah http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/09/17/what-riya-did-wrong-or-why-companies-should-respect-the-commercialization-phase-or-how-to-make-expensive-funding-cheap/#comment-4312 Munjal Shah Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:06:44 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/09/17/what-riya-did-wrong-or-why-companies-should-respect-the-commercialization-phase-or-how-to-make-expensive-funding-cheap/#comment-4312 One more thing - you are actually right we could have done more business model validation on Riya 1.0. The reality though on the fund raising is something different. You couldn't even dream of building or even pitching a next gen image search engine without significant resources... so it is kind of a circle, the money led to the opportunity to go after big markets and have a chance to succeed. One more thing - you are actually right we could have done more business model validation on Riya 1.0. The reality though on the fund raising is something different. You couldn’t even dream of building or even pitching a next gen image search engine without significant resources… so it is kind of a circle, the money led to the opportunity to go after big markets and have a chance to succeed.

]]> By: Munjal Shah http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/09/17/what-riya-did-wrong-or-why-companies-should-respect-the-commercialization-phase-or-how-to-make-expensive-funding-cheap/#comment-4311 Munjal Shah Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:01:16 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/09/17/what-riya-did-wrong-or-why-companies-should-respect-the-commercialization-phase-or-how-to-make-expensive-funding-cheap/#comment-4311 Fraser, You are so right. Often people iterate in the same market / value proposition instead of realizing most lack of uptake (usage) is due to the macro space not whether you built this little feature or not. We are getting ready to release our next product. If you or any others want to join our private alpha (we are really looking for input) please email me here blog3 at munjal.com Thanks Munjal Shah - Riya Fraser,

You are so right. Often people iterate in the same market / value proposition instead of realizing most lack of uptake (usage) is due to the macro space not whether you built this little feature or not.

We are getting ready to release our next product. If you or any others want to join our private alpha (we are really looking for input) please email me here blog3 at munjal.com

Thanks
Munjal Shah - Riya

]]> By: Munjal Shah http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/09/17/what-riya-did-wrong-or-why-companies-should-respect-the-commercialization-phase-or-how-to-make-expensive-funding-cheap/#comment-101100 Munjal Shah Wed, 04 Oct 2006 23:06:44 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/09/17/what-riya-did-wrong-or-why-companies-should-respect-the-commercialization-phase-or-how-to-make-expensive-funding-cheap/#comment-101100 One more thing - you are actually right we could have done more business model validation on Riya 1.0. The reality though on the fund raising is something different. You couldn't even dream of building or even pitching a next gen image search engine without significant resources... so it is kind of a circle, the money led to the opportunity to go after big markets and have a chance to succeed. One more thing - you are actually right we could have done more business model validation on Riya 1.0. The reality though on the fund raising is something different. You couldn’t even dream of building or even pitching a next gen image search engine without significant resources… so it is kind of a circle, the money led to the opportunity to go after big markets and have a chance to succeed.

]]> By: Munjal Shah http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/09/17/what-riya-did-wrong-or-why-companies-should-respect-the-commercialization-phase-or-how-to-make-expensive-funding-cheap/#comment-101099 Munjal Shah Wed, 04 Oct 2006 23:01:16 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/09/17/what-riya-did-wrong-or-why-companies-should-respect-the-commercialization-phase-or-how-to-make-expensive-funding-cheap/#comment-101099 Fraser, You are so right. Often people iterate in the same market / value proposition instead of realizing most lack of uptake (usage) is due to the macro space not whether you built this little feature or not. We are getting ready to release our next product. If you or any others want to join our private alpha (we are really looking for input) please email me here blog3 at munjal.com Thanks Munjal Shah - Riya Fraser, You are so right. Often people iterate in the same market / value proposition instead of realizing most lack of uptake (usage) is due to the macro space not whether you built this little feature or not. We are getting ready to release our next product. If you or any others want to join our private alpha (we are really looking for input) please email me here blog3 at munjal.com Thanks Munjal Shah - Riya

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