Mike McCue
Mike McCue
Mike McCueis an American technology entrepreneur, who founded or co-founded such companies as Paper Software, Tellme Networks and Flipboard...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
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Our whole goal is to basically feature publishers' content and get people to click over to that content on the website.
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I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.
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In high school, I started my first company, called M Cubed Software. We named it that because it was me and two other guys named Mike.
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The iPad is creating a new format for reading content. One of the things that's happening as a result is the world of personalized news aggregators, which is a category that's been around for quite some time, is getting new life.
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If you're Burberry or Gucci, you're not going to run a banner ad. To get brand ad dollars to move to digital, you need to create a beautiful experience.
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I had been reading magazines a lot, and I love magazines, and so I was always asking myself why is it that these gorgeous articles just don't translate well to the web? Presentation was one aspect of it.
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As a publisher, you should decide what content is free and what you'd pay for. You have to get the packaging right, but people will pay for content.
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As an entrepreneur, in many ways it's like looking into the crystal ball for what my company will hopefully go through as it starts to think about bigger challenges - scaling internationally, getting ready to go public, and all those different things.
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Articles themselves are condensed to narrow columns of text across 5, 6, 7 pages, and ads that are really distracting for the reader, so it's not a pleasant experience to 'curl up' with a good website.
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That's why we created Flipboard as a social magazine meant for an iPad, meant for a large touch-screen device. That idea of content presented beautifully, oriented around communities and special topics of interest, is really powerful.
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You don't feel like you have to interact with a whole bunch of people when you get on Flipboard. It's not a source of social anxiety.
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The Web as we've known it for a long time has been pages linking and pointing to other pages.
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Personalized news aggregators are geared around connecting you to news sources; we're about connecting you to your friends. To people you're inspired by. To people that you're following on Facebook and Twitter.
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TechCrunch evolved on the Web as a new way of presenting the news on the Web.