Archive for August, 2011

kbspVC Portfolio Company, Crowdtwist is Hiring

One of kbs+p Ventures portfolio companies, Crowdtwist, is looking to attract and hire sales folks to join their team.  For those who aren’t familiar with Crowdtwist, it’s a social loyalty platform that bridges the paid-owned-earned media ecosystem.  I’m extremely bullish on them because they bridge the evolving media ecosystem and bring social data into our [...]

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My Rule of Introductions

I have a simple rule for introductions:  please only introduce someone to me if you’ve cleared it with me beforehand.  The result is a much better introduction (pre-warmed the oven so to speak) and it avoids any kind of awkward situations.
If you’ve made an introduction to me, you know I follow this rule as I’m [...]

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The Bloomberg Advertising Terminal

(originally posted on Google Plus and then picked up on PaidContent)
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about data recently and it’s become the central investment thesis for kbs+p Ventures, our go to market approaches for The Media Kitchen, and how kbs+p communicates vision. My friend and entrepreneur extraordinaire +Jon Steinberg says it extremely well, [...]

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