I’ve been thinking about point solutions recently because much of the innovation we are seeing in the advertising and marketing technology space starts out this way. It’s also not uncommon in the advertising world when agencies are first started: they start out as a point solution servicing a certain trend such as “social media” and [...]
Category: Startup & Venture Capital
I’m about a month behind planning for this year’s 2012 Silicon Alley Golf Invitational, but rest assured, by Friday, I’ll have the date and venue which will get sent out to all of the players from last year to reserve their spot at some point over the weekend. If you’d like to add your name [...]
This past Wednesday, April 11, we hosted our 5th annual TMK Digital Media Venture Capital Conference for our agency staffers, our clients, and our friends. I was particularly excited to host the event this year because we had an all-star lineup of speakers including but not limited to Dan Porter (OMGPOP), Albert Wenger (Union Square [...]
On Wednesday, April 11, The Media Kitchen is hosting our 5th annual Digital Media Venture Capital Conference. Here is the writeup from 2008, our first one we ever held. It’s one of my favorite days of the year because it’s packed with inspiration from some of the greatest minds in venture capital, technology, and entrepreneurship. [...]
Over the past month or so since I first heard the line, “search is bought, media is sold,” I’ve been thinking about it as it’s resonated as both a media planner/buyer and a marketing/ad tech investor. I went thru the exercise to understand this statement at its core: why is search bought and why is [...]
Last night, Sherri threw me a surprise 30th birthday party. It was phenomenal as she brought all my best friends that I grew up with together. We live all over now but people traveled from out of town and it really was a special evening. I was thinking how I wanted to write a 30th [...]
I recently judged a business plan competition at Skidmore College and it was a fantastic experience. The college and organizers did a fantastic job putting it together and making it all happen. Here is a recap video that has been posted to YouTube. I got back to the office yesterday and was catching up with [...]
I was fortunate to be asked back to my alma matter, Skidmore College, to judge a business plan competition that was open to all students at the college. I drove up last Thursday eve and spent all day Friday with alumni judges and students. It was phenomenal and blew away my expectations. The students had [...]
I was fortunate enough to be asked by Ari & David Goldberg to speak at their State of Style Summit which was held today at the 92st Y in Tribeca. They threw an A+ event and the turn-out of attendees was awesome; it looked like standing room only from the stage. Job well done, Goldbergs. [...]
Just over a year ago, I wrote a post talking about how I was optimizing my content consumption. I spoke about both Knowabout.it and Summify, both of which I continue to use. Summify was just acquired by Twitter, which I think is a good move for them, however I hope Summify still exists to help [...]
