Archive for January, 2011
Opportunities in Advertising Ecosystem
I gave a presentation at the First Round Capital CEO Summit yesterday in San Francisco on the subject of areas that need innovation within the advertising ecosystem. While this is a very very broad topic and I only had 45 mins or so, I had to narrow it down to a few areas to speak [...]
Why I’m Excited About This Batch of Internet Driven IPOs
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Let’s assume the Internet started mainstream adoption in 1990 when Prodigy had approximately 465,000 subscribers and CompuServe had 600,000 (fact check here). While those numbers in themselves aren’t mainstream to a country of 300MM+ people, they do signify a large group of people who were early adopters and started to spread the [...]
Lets Meet Up in SF Next Week
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I’m going to be in San Francisco on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. I’ll be staying in the Westin Hotel on Market Street (50 3rd Street @ Market) and would love to meet some awesome entrepreneurs and ad tech folks. If you are around and want to get together, drop me a [...]
Real Blogs Don’t Buy Ads on Google: My Reaction
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I just read Michael Arrington’s post on how Engadget, a sister blog of his has sold out. They sold out apparently because they bought paid search traffic on Google. For more information on the initial reporting of this, check out BusinessInsider’s post.
I can understand Michael’s viewpoint and can see why he’s saying it, [...]
Too Big To Fail
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This post was inspired in part by a conversation I was having this weekend on Quora with an entrepreneur I totally respect and other articles I’ve bseen about the early stage ecosystem here in the USA.
I’ve said it in the past (here in 2007), and I’ll say it again, raising Venture Capital is [...]
My First Ohours Day Competed
For those note familiar with Ohours, it’s my friend Nate’s new experiment with helping to connect people looking to network and connect with other interesting people. He also coded it from start to finish as his working education to learning programming. I thought I’d try it.
I held my first Ohours day on Friday, January 7. I [...]
Optimizing My Content Consumption
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It’s very rare that I have time to web surf and pop onto random websites and consume whatever is there. 24 hours just is not enough for me at this point in my life and so I need the best possible filtering agents to help me consume/optimize my time online.
What I expect from [...]
