Brian Kinane Yorkville Advisors on the Mobile Barcode Market
I met Brian Kinane from Yorkville Advisors for drinks last week. It was a follow up after meeting Paul Strzelecki (the day before). We met at the May Fair Hotel, where the 2.0 conference was taking place. From the start, Brian said that he didn’t want to talk about NeoMedia specifically as a plan was in place. But this didn’t stop me quizzing him on the mobile barcode market in general.
We spoke about the types of codes and the future of the market and when the mobile barcode market would “bear fruit”. Then one of his colleagues from Nokia joined us and the conversation touched on marketing and advertising as well.
So, it’s going to be tough to summarize generally what we discussed. But afterwards what made me think was that is there a European mobile barcode leader? There is a lot of excitement in the US with ZXing and I realised that Iain McCready is European. Yorkville in the UK is a new venture and Gavitec is based in Germany. Gavitec has actually been extremely successful and has visibility across Germany has been huge. Gavitec was at every advertising and marketing event in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
I got an email this morning (which was extremely thought provoking) from a US investor and somehow everything came together.
I think I have read between the lines from the interview with Iain McCready and I have figured out the only scalable one mission critical domination strategy.
I am going to take my time. I feel another call to (Iain) on the way – yikes he might start to hate me. But, will be reporting back.
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6 Responses to “Brian Kinane Yorkville Advisors on the Mobile Barcode Market”
Bena….you are the BEST!!!
Thanks so much for all your hard work,really appreciate..
have a great sunday!
good luck
Comment made on June 15th, 2008 at 8:59 amBena,
I see you gave an interview to Brian Kinane of Yorkville Advisors. In case you weren’t aware, YA is a vulture capital firm specializing in penny stock scams that bilk investors out of big money. Please see the following link for a look at their track record:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.aspx?board_id=9964
Comment made on June 19th, 2008 at 8:25 pmChris,
LOL, you can’t say that here. Just like you can’t say that Gavitec, primarily involved in equipment sales, has not been extremely successful in this space.
Go to the airports that are doing bar code scanning in the world, and see how many have Gavitecs hardware installed. Wait, you don’t even have to do that. Just look at the last quarterly filing which gives Gavitecs sales, and its a joke. They are far behind the real successes who have their scanners all over the place around the world like Symbol and Intermec.
Most barcode scanners sold and in use over the past 5 years have 2D barcode scanning capability for the major standard version 2D barcodes, so Gavitecs scanner isn’t a whole lot different, so one has to wonder what extremely successful means in a forum such as this, consisting of opinions versus facts. I wonder whose scanners the US postal service is using for those 2D data matrix codes appearing more and more on your mail are? What about the grocery stores and shops that all have 2D barcode compliant scanners in use today? They surely can not be gavitecs, based on the sales revenue generated, which I should point out, has been declining over the past year since Neomedia purchased the company.
Comment made on June 19th, 2008 at 9:18 pmUnless you do porn or swear - I don’t censor GoMo News.
I thought Brian was very nice and honest. I also have met Paul in several different positions and he has been very good to me. This was even before he was at YA. The only YA company I know is Neom. The way in which YA got me the first interview with Iain McCready and also the way in which Iain read all of your emails (I had over 60 including those on the site) - I thought was positive.
I am not sure If I can influence but mobile barcodes is my business as is GoMo News. I know that I have more influene because of the relationships that I have built over the past year than say a journalist at the FT - but I want to say:
You shareholders and others that comment here are also very important to me. I have heard your four years of investors in Neom stories.
What ever happens a lot of key people including operators are reading and commenting on these posts. I would say, now if ever was the time to show the world why Neom is an asset and why shareholders deserve to be looked after if anything big happens.
Comment made on June 20th, 2008 at 7:30 amFlagging posters for weeks at a time as spammers, so they can not respond to the attacks or comments in a timely manner is censorship isn’t it? By the time the flag is removed, it’s useless to go back to respond.
Here is what typically happens and it gives same response for two weeks no matter what topic you attempt to respond to, and the blogs author never published the responses as they were capabable of doing according to this statement.
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Comment made on June 22nd, 2008 at 2:27 pmBrewskih, I wish you had flagged this earlier. This is not intentional it seems to be a bug from the upgrade from Typepad to WordPress - this is a WP blog - so obviously I have programmed something wrong. In the future - don’t hesitate just to flag this to me - anyone else with problems?
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