“I’m tempted to make the explanation for that complicated, but it’s pretty simple: we worked ourselves to the point of exhaustion, struggled to raise money and just ran out of time.”
The team behind Zeega realized they needed to go mobile-first, and Pop — which lets people communicate through a mashup of photos, videos, and GIFs from the web — is their next step.
Matter, formerly known as the Public Media Accelerator, aims to join “the values of public media” to “the mindsets of Silicon Valley entrepreneurship.”
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Ellis, Justin. "Meet the first class: Six media startups get accelerated into Silicon Valley by Matter." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 6 Mar. 2013. Web. 16 Apr. 2024.
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