Today's Entrepreneur is Barry Vial, CEO and Co-Founder of BiteMe. According to his VEQ Barry is good at technology design, project development and marketing management.
BiteMe is a multi-player creative-social-betting-video mobile platform that allows its users to create and offer any number of wildly creative bets and broadcast them worldwide via 6-second microvideo (Vine) taken from their smartphone.
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I am a(n):
Entrepreneur
If you are an entrepreneur, why?
Being IN the game and not WATCHING the game.
What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?
Inertia, both kinds.
What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs make?People want to see and hear your passion, but when messaging to a first-time recipient who knows little or nothing about your venture, dial it back. Obvious passion and knowledge, carefully presented, will draw the listener in.
What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?
1. Those stomach aches, the ones like you just got punched in the gut, they do go away.
2. "Build-measure-learn, repeat".
3. You're not the boss, everyone else is.
Do you know what a wet nurse is?
Funny-sounding term that I only recently learned the meaning. And it struck me as analogous to my early career in tech which was providing the left-brain attributes necessary for the success of ideas created by right-brained others.
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The disruptive things we do in B2B are demonstrable Please see video and White Paper "The Long Tail of Betting" US Patent 7,792,723 (plus Intl IP). Now we want to apply our our radical IP to gaming, and in particular, to social betting. This a potential $20B market http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/27/a-winning-wager-experts-see-a-20b-market-for-gambling-in-games/
"BiteMe" is a multi-player creative-social-betting-video mobile platform (did you get all that?). With just a dollar* in your bank, you can create and offer any number of wildly creative bets that are interesting to you and broadcast them worldwide via 6-second microvideo (Vine) taken from your smartphone. The more interesting your video and bet offer "bait", the more viewers you get who may vote up your video and take your bet offer "bite". You can multicast 10 or 100 bet offers of completely different events "baits", all at the same time at different odds YOU set (not the house), ALL without risking more than one single bet! Why fish with just one pole in one pond at a time? Potential players and viewers can up vote your creative 6-second pitch (trolls get voted out) and you gain possible nano-celebrity and virtual money (real money to follow) resulting from those votes. You also get acclaim and virtual money for judging the videos and outcomes of the bets of others. It is fun and safe to play as creatively and wildly as desired. Because there is no opportunity cost impediment to play, other players will join in with their own creativity and, sometimes they will "shark" your bet idea, by competing against you and offering your original bet but with better odds to lure interested players away (but only you get the up votes for your originality though). For the first time, players control the odds, and rate each other based on how creative, successful or controversial each other are, all in a fully transparent way. What are you a brianiac on? Socialize and monetize that knowledge by expressing your predictions on politics, pop-culture, sports , or anything that interests you. BiteMe appeals to both ends of the player spectrum. The hardcore gambler, solely incentivized by financial gain, benefits from the visibility of supply & demand of odds as well as the ability to create bets not hostable by conventinal venues "the house" (that pesky opportunity cost thing again). The casual player, who isn't necessarily incentivized financially but who is definitely incentivized socially, will enjoy the rewards of expression, discoverability and upvotes.
*Betting is real-money where legal and soft-money in other jurisdictions. And those gates are coming down!
Here's how you do it:
Let's say you're a big American Idol fan and you just know that Contestant A is going to win.
Step One: You register on BiteMe. It's free, easy and anonymous.
Step Two: You enter a few brief details about your bet offer (who, what and when) and what odds you are offering $1 to $1, $2 to $1 etc.
Step Three: On your smartphone you make your 6-second micro video promoting your bet in any entertaining way you see fit. It can be a smack down of the competition, or why you are so smart, or why your idol is so great, or anything that is entertaining which can drum up votes for your video and winnings to your coffer.
Step Four: At outcome, your virtual currency is either transfered out of or into your account. BiteMe only makes public your upvotes, win/loss ratio, judging stature and reputation on disputes. You rise or fall on how well you create and execute.
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Mundane executive heavy-lifting to repeat the impression of "overnight success".
