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 [...]
Category: Internet & Web X.0
Image by Getty Images via@daylife 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 [...]
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. [...]
Image via Wikipedia The digital media world is jumping for joy. Advertising agencies, publishers, technology companies, etc. For the first time, the Internet has surpassed print as an advertising vehicle. WSJ, Ad Age, Venture Beat, and others wrote about it recently. U.S. spending on online ads will hit $25.8 billion in 2010, compared with $22.8 [...]
Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr Jon Borthwick (@borthwick) penned a piece for TechCrunch this morning called Neutrality or Bust. This followed a piece by friend and fellow investor Brad Burnham (@bradUSV) entitled Internet Access Should Be Application Agnostic. While Net Neutrality has been talked about for years, it’s now getting a lot of [...]
Image by Yaisog Bonegnasher via Flickr I’ve been thinking about this blog post for a while and finally sitting down to write it. It’s exactly as the headline sounds… except it’s not about my relationship with my wife, but about my relationship with my mobile phone. I have an Apple iPhone 4 and have had [...]
I’m going to play contrarian for a post. There is so much talk right now of the angel investment scene going bananas from venture capitalists, angel investors, entrepreneurs, journalists, academics, and even lolcats. I agree that it’s going bananas, but where I don’t agree with many people (and many people who I respect) is that [...]
