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PASCAL'S VIEW | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2011 Equity Traders Acknowledge that Structural Issues Are Crippling U.S. IPO’s Pointing to the success of several handfuls of social media companies as an index for the general health of innovation in the U.S. ve made this structural argument for over three years on this blog and in public speeches. Again, I urge readers to make their voices heard on this topic. Small Cap IPO? venture capitalists. -
FOR THE WIN | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2010 What We Blog About When We Blog About Blogging Despite that, a wave has hit our industry; a wave that previously hit the media industry and will go onto spill more broadly into corporate America. This has been playing out in the media for a few years. As with media and venture capital, right now having a well-known social profile is just an opportunity, not a threat. -
FOR THE WIN | TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2011 Which Buildings Do We Burn Down? What do you do about the state controlled media? New movements demand new media, and can leverage the hell out of it. The first task of a revolutionary is figuring out which buildings to burn down. In that same sense, the first task of an entrepreneurial firm is to figure out what of the existing order to keep, and what to challenge. -
FOR THE WIN | THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2011 Seed Investing and Paper Lanterns That requires us to get in early, which is why we have a tight sector focus on financial service and media, areas where we can get comfortable on little data and where we can sell our way into competitive deals based on our ability to help. was with him once at a beach house owned by a friend of his, in the Dominican Republic. on the dollar. -
AGILE VC | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2011 Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress � AGILEVC And even other strong, but perhaps not standout, companies like Active Network and Demand Media completed their own offerings. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. About Me. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress. September 15, 2011. Bankers licked their chops. About Me.
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AGILE VC | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011 Netflix / Qwikster Split Was Brilliant (and Necessary)� 2 Long Term. have to say that I’m not a fan of the brand “Qwikster” for the DVD-by-mail service, though I think it’s good that group will expand into other media types like video games (a la Gamefly). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. About Me. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. About Me. -
AGILE VC | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2011 Amazon vs Apple: A Tale of Two Business Models � AGILEVC Because consumers don’t want a portable touchscreen computer… they want a product that integrates content & media suite seamlessly with the hardware. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. About Me. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Amazon vs Apple: A Tale of Two Business Models. About Me. -
AGILE VC | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2011 The Consumerization of Business Software � AGILEVC But as social media continues to pervade businesses large and small, and purchase decisions increasingly happen at the user level (see #2) we will see dramatically more customer acquisition happen via the web. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. About Me. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. About Me. -
AGILE VC | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012 Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade � AGILEVC Facebook admits as much that the ad business, which again accounts for the vast majority of revenues (85%), has seasonality in line with the media industry generally with a strong Q4 and weak Q1. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. About Me. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. February 2, 2012. billion. -
AGILE VC | THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012 Tech IPOs Are Back � So Now What? � AGILEVC The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. About Me. March 8, 2012. So now what? -
AGILE VC | TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2012 Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing � AGILEVC only notified them of potential IP infringement two weeks ago on February 27, 2012 (as described in the lawsuit) and Facebook heard about it through the media rather than in private. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. About Me. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Yahoo! March 13, 2012. Yesterday Yahoo! -
AGILE VC | FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2012 Is �Data� a Business Model? � AGILEVC That phrase means different things to different folks, but broadly speaking we’re now in an era where there’s vast amounts of data “exhaust” being generated by a wide range of activity… from consumer web browsing patterns to financial trading to social media content to purchasing behavior. About Me. MMOs). -
VCBALL | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2004 1990s Redux? Nope, just Free Telephone Conferencing - VCball Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. New York based VCs quixotic search for new knowledge in early stage venture capital and entrepreneurship. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. Subscribe in a reader. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. John R. -
VCBALL | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2004 Your Founder Got Strategy? - VCball Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. New York based VCs quixotic search for new knowledge in early stage venture capital and entrepreneurship. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. Subscribe in a reader. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. John R. -
VCBALL | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2004 Take the Friction Out - VCball Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. New York based VCs quixotic search for new knowledge in early stage venture capital and entrepreneurship. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. Subscribe in a reader. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. John R. -
VCBALL | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2005 Lose Yourself - VCball Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. New York based VCs quixotic search for new knowledge in early stage venture capital and entrepreneurship. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. Subscribe in a reader. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. John R. -
VCBALL | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2005 Travel Tip for Bootstrappers - VCball Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. New York based VCs quixotic search for new knowledge in early stage venture capital and entrepreneurship. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. Subscribe in a reader. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. John R. -
VCBALL | SUNDAY, MAY 1, 2005 Teach Me to be a Successful Entrepreneur While I Stand on One. Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. New York based VCs quixotic search for new knowledge in early stage venture capital and entrepreneurship. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. Subscribe in a reader. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. John R. -
VCBALL | SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2005 I Love NY Tax Credits - VCball Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. New York based VCs quixotic search for new knowledge in early stage venture capital and entrepreneurship. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. Subscribe in a reader. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. John R. -
VCBALL | FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2005 Make a Difference - VCball Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. New York based VCs quixotic search for new knowledge in early stage venture capital and entrepreneurship. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. Subscribe in a reader. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. John R. -
VCBALL | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2005 Congrats, Jason, for keeping that pecker hard! - VCball Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. New York based VCs quixotic search for new knowledge in early stage venture capital and entrepreneurship. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. Subscribe in a reader. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. John R. -
VCBALL | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2005 Why Smart Business People Need to Go Virtual - VCball Much has been said about social networking, blogs, and the use of email lists, and other online media from a business model perspective. Much has been said about social networking, blogs, and the use of email lists, and other online media from a business model perspective. VCball. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. -
VCBALL | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2005 It's Raining Jobs! - VCball Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. New York based VCs quixotic search for new knowledge in early stage venture capital and entrepreneurship. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. Subscribe in a reader. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. John R. -
VCBALL | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2006 Find Your Nachshon - VCball Roddy probably didnt know it, but hes the reason why AdOne (now PowerOne Media ), the company we formed from this idea, was started. Roddy probably didnt know it, but hes the reason why AdOne (now PowerOne Media ), the company we formed from this idea, was started. VCball. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. John R. -
VCBALL | SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006 Free Video on Why Your Marketing Plan Sucks Eggs - VCball Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. New York based VCs quixotic search for new knowledge in early stage venture capital and entrepreneurship. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. Subscribe in a reader. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. John R. -
VCBALL | SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 2006 Continue To Be Persistent - VCball Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. New York based VCs quixotic search for new knowledge in early stage venture capital and entrepreneurship. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. Subscribe in a reader. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. John R. -
VCBALL | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2006 Get Marquee Customers Not Frigging Reference Accounts - VCball Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. New York based VCs quixotic search for new knowledge in early stage venture capital and entrepreneurship. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. Subscribe in a reader. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. John R. -
VCBALL | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2006 Talk About Moon Cheese - VCball With the heckles about Googles acquisition of YouTube still echoing in the media, like the NYT today ( "If you believe it’s the future of television, it’s clearly worth $1.6 Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. John R. -
VCBALL | MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2006 Free Help for Founders - VCball Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. New York based VCs quixotic search for new knowledge in early stage venture capital and entrepreneurship. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. Subscribe in a reader. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. John R. -
VCBALL | SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2007 Make Better Decisions More Simply: Use the Iron Triangle - VCball Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. New York based VCs quixotic search for new knowledge in early stage venture capital and entrepreneurship. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. Subscribe in a reader. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. John R. -
VCBALL | SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 2007 Tear Off the Band-Aid - VCball Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. New York based VCs quixotic search for new knowledge in early stage venture capital and entrepreneurship. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. Subscribe in a reader. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. John R. -
VCBALL | MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2007 Don't raise more money than you can chew - VCball Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. New York based VCs quixotic search for new knowledge in early stage venture capital and entrepreneurship. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. Subscribe in a reader. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. John R. -
VCBALL | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 2007 Don't Kill the VC Golden Goose! Why Raising Taxes on Carried. Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. New York based VCs quixotic search for new knowledge in early stage venture capital and entrepreneurship. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. Subscribe in a reader. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. John R. -
VCBALL | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2007 Speaking up More about VC Carried Interest Taxation and the - VCball Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. New York based VCs quixotic search for new knowledge in early stage venture capital and entrepreneurship. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. Subscribe in a reader. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. John R. -
VCBALL | MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2008 Gotta Have Heart! Go Giants! - VCball Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. New York based VCs quixotic search for new knowledge in early stage venture capital and entrepreneurship. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. Subscribe in a reader. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. John R. -
VCBALL | THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2008 Get a Kindle - VCball Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. New York based VCs quixotic search for new knowledge in early stage venture capital and entrepreneurship. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Subscribe via Feeds. Subscribe in a reader. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. John R. -
VCBALL | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2008 Celebrate Groundhog Day Every Day - VCball The best entrepreneurs I know, founders like Sean Morgan who I backed in 2004 at Critical Media (the holding company for two very cool online video companies, Critical Mention and ClipSyndicate ), have their critics. Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. John R. -
VCBALL | TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 2008 Get Published - VCball think its a bold move by IDG, and I think other media might follow if successful. think its a bold move by IDG, and I think other media might follow if successful. Clay Shirkys Writings Writings About the Internet: Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source. VCball. Become a Fan. Subscribe via Email. Twitter Updates. -
THINKING ABOUT THINKING | MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2009 Who Drives Web Traffic? social media) will surpass Google in driving traffic to websites and blogs. Social voting sites have been more impactful than other social media sites. In recent blog posts by Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures and Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital, they have talked about how twitter and facebook (e.g. PEHub (630, 9.6%, 3.7%). -
THINKING ABOUT THINKING | TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2009 The Most Innovative and Impactful (Emerging) Charities WorldChanging – environmental media organization. Every day I meet for-profit companies that are trying to change the world by solving really big problems with groundbreaking innovations. Today I asked my twitter friends which non-profits or charities are following suit. Following is a running list of what I heard (and who referred it). -
POSSIBLE INSIGHT | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2011 What Seed Funding Bubble? Because Y Combinator and superangels generate pretty intense media coverage, people read more frequently about the few big investments in seed-stage startups. At the moment, people seem to believe there’s a “bubble” in seed-stage technology funding. Now, the investment amount is not the same as the valuation. -
THE CORNICE | FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2008 Dealmaker Forum This Wednesday (April 30th) in Mountain View, Dealmaker Media is organizing a forum on social media. Their events are always top notch and this one will doubtless continue the trend. As part of the event, I’m participating in a “speed dating” session as a corporate speed dater. More details here. start-ups -
THE CORNICE | MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2009 FRC Office Hours: Next Stop Vancouver! On January 15th, we’ll be partnering with our good friends at W Media Ventures to host an Office Hours in Vancouver. Chris Fralic and Kent Goldman will represent First Round Capital, with Boris Wertz of W Media Ventures acting as the local host. We’ll be available for a bunch of informal ~15 minute chats. venture capital -
THE CORNICE | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2009 Capital Alchemy: Make Fixed Costs Variable Instead of doing a fixed $X0,000 media buy, businesses can bid on keywords knowing that they will only pay if someone clicks their ad. At a web services conference a few weeks back, I remarked that the story behind the show was really that fixed costs will become variable / “flexible” costs costs. start-ups venture capital #frc -
JASON BALL | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2007 Symbian Smartphoneshow I heard from DoCoMo, Vodafone and Nokia this morning (but Sling Media stole the show in the early afternoon). wanted to highlight a few key points that jumped out at me: Smartphones represent LESS than 10% of the market in every western country except Italy. Events, Conferences and Panels Mobile -
JASON BALL | TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2008 The Music Revolution Some new arrivals on the scene are 8Tracks , Grooveshark Lite and Simplify Media. Wow, talk about music news this week. Muxtape got its wrist slapped by the RIAA… …but there are new music start ups to pick up where Muxtape left off (if it’s in fact dead, and not a publicity stunt). And that’s pre-launch. -
THEBAREFOOTVC | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2009 The Daily Beast’s Foray into E-Books In the spirit of new paradigms of media consumption, consumers will have yet another option– more timely, in depth articles, at (hopefully) price points that reflect their inherent value to the readers. Startups Technology daily beast digital media ebooks publishingapplaud the Daily Beast for this experiment. -
WAYTOOEARLY | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2006 WayTooEarly: Techcrunch NY - No bubble yet I'm just about to launch a site that displays the charts from Alexa for social media sites - [link]. WayTooEarly. work with companies at two stages, too early and way too early. This weblog is about working at this early point in a company or technologys life cycle. « Time Warner and TiVo - too early for CableCARDs(TM)? TrackBack. -
WAYTOOEARLY | TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2007 WayTooEarly: Lenovo is Setting The Table In this funk, I attended the ShowStopper event, a non-sanctioned, but fun party where sixty or so companies each have a 2 foot long table to show their wares to the media. WayTooEarly. work with companies at two stages, too early and way too early. This weblog is about working at this early point in a company or technologys life cycle. link]. -
WAYTOOEARLY | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2007 WayTooEarly: Gotcha HM] Yes, but the print media does not pick up Valleywag stories as quickly as political ones, perhaps because businesses advertise in print media, while politicians mainly use TV and Radio. WayTooEarly. work with companies at two stages, too early and way too early. « Information May Be Free - But Youll Pay | Main. Mark Walsh. -
WAYTOOEARLY | THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2009 WayTooEarly: Gresham/Morgan Internet Law - Cheap Tweeting. see no obvious analogue in the social-media world. WayTooEarly. work with companies at two stages, too early and way too early. This weblog is about working at this early point in a company or technologys life cycle. « UNI – Acquired tastes in food and investing | Main. Twitter has triggered a similar tendency on the internet. -
ERIC FRIEDMAN | TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2008 The Perfect Ad Campaign and Demographic It’s showing tremendous impact on the cool, media-savvy rebels who distrust authority, prize alternative culture, think outside of the mainstream, and are willing to base their actions entirely on advertising images presented to them on TV. The Onion pretty much nails it. How dope is that? Thanks Seth via Chet ). Marketing.fm -
ERIC FRIEDMAN | MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2008 Twitter functions we wish existed think this would also help determine relationships between business and personal friends which are now on every social network – especially for those of us who work in the Social Media business. I was recently browsing Twitter and began thinking about the instant nature of everyone posting. Feel free to follow my Twitter updates here. -
ERIC FRIEDMAN | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2008 Welcome to the Widget Wars lot of companies, people, freelancers, media properties, search engines, consulting groups, and individuals. There will always be wars between dueling hardware, software, platforms, websites and more. few years ago the browser wars basically ended. Some may say it is still being waged but the recent shut down of Netscape marked the true end. -
ERIC FRIEDMAN | THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2008 Podcamp NYC 2.0 Podcamp NYC is a free “unconference” focused on New Media. Join us April 25-26 at Brooklyn Polytechnic to meet other New Media creators, learn, and to share what you know. I will be at Podcamp NYC this weekend – I went to the first one and it was great. What is podcamp? check it out. Marketing.fm podcamp podcamp NYC 2.0 -
ERIC FRIEDMAN | FRIDAY, MAY 30, 2008 Web 2.0 companies not producing cash? The shortage of revenue among social networks, blogs and other “social media” sites that put user-generated content and communications at their core has persisted despite more than four years of experimentation aimed at turning such sites into money-makers. FT has an interesting look at “web 2.0″ -
ERIC FRIEDMAN | MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2008 Watch the widget trends Social MediaIn my recent article about being bullish on widgets I was asked a lot about supporting data. The article was primarily my own thoughts, but nonetheless people always want more stats. Read Write Web has a great article about watching widget stats for US politics. Marketing.fm -
ERIC FRIEDMAN | MONDAY, JULY 28, 2008 Interview: Randy Peterson – SES 2008 San Jose Q&A Search is one of the most inherently measureable media out there. I had the chance to interview Randy Peterson of P&G for his upcoming participation in Search Engine Strategies 2008: San Jose where he will be speaking on the Keynote Roundtable: “Why Does Search Get the Credit for Everything?” ” panel. and.pro names. -
ERIC FRIEDMAN | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2008 Interview with Motoko Hunt about Search around the World & SES Chicago 2008 is a Media Partner with SES. I recently interviewed Motoko Hunt of AJPR for Search Engine Strategies Chicago where she will be speaking in the Search Around the World: Europe, Asia/Pacific & Latin America panel. Motoko Hunt. What is your background and what do you do for www.ajpr.com ? to create effective campaigns. jp” and “.uk”. -
ERIC FRIEDMAN | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2008 Links Roundup Social Media is like the Matrix – Because you have to USE social media to understand it. Links roundup for the middle of the week on 11/12/2008 – Enjoy! Blackberry vs. iphone vs. treo failure rate. No more windows 3.x - the end of an era. Ways to fail and come out on top. Are holographic reporters going to become the norm? -
ERIC FRIEDMAN | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2008 Thinking about web services From publishing applications in the cloud, business efficiency apps, entertainment and media related services, and obscure tools and utilities, gaming and leisure tools – I have kicked the tires on quite a few systems. have been doing this for years and it was definitely a highlight in thinking about my current role. Analytics. Scalability. -
ERIC FRIEDMAN | MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2009 The Social Web Helps Content Live Forever Brands tend to look at this same problem through the filter of Business Intelligence , which is essentially a complex and complicated way of talking about tracking all the conversations, comments, posts, praises, complaints, KPI goals, and media tracking that could have anything to do with a brand. Related articles by Zemanta. Marketing.fm -
ERIC FRIEDMAN | SUNDAY, MAY 3, 2009 Links Roundup 05.03.09 GoogleDoubleclick have a rich media creator and try to define rich media. Why leave Gmail when you can search from within it ! YouCube (not a typo). made my own YouCube with the 6 Most popular videos of all time. Google News Timeline – check it out, trust me. In Defense of Eye Candy. Is your username available ? What did I miss? -
ERIC FRIEDMAN | FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2009 McCann NY on using Social Media connected with Bruce Stockler who is VP Corporate Communications at McCann Erickson , NY and he answered a few questions about how McCann is using and participating online and with social media. How is McCann Erickson using social media right now? Each McCann office pursues its own social media strategy. tend to agree. Yikes. -
ERIC FRIEDMAN | THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2009 Brave New Consumerism Social media sites have certainly become a part of the review matrix through associated applications, groups and posts. Guest post from my friend Scott Sigel see more posts from Scott. wasn’t exactly a model student. The good news is that listening and talking to customers is easier (and cheaper) than ever. Enter the new consumer. -
NEXTWALA | TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2008 Speaking at Where 2.0 - "What's Hot and What's Not on the Geoweb. as well as a number of other companies in the mobile and media spaces that could be of great value to developers for distribution, content and enabling technology. NextWala. VC perspective and analysis from a former entrepreneur. About Me. Dev Khare. New Delhi, India. dkhare at lightspeedvp dot com. www.about.me/dkhare. dkhare. Recent Posts. -
NEXTWALA | TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2008 Information changes driving behavior - NextWala There are new technology and media startups pursuing a number of these application areas. NextWala. VC perspective and analysis from a former entrepreneur. About Me. Dev Khare. New Delhi, India. dkhare at lightspeedvp dot com. www.about.me/dkhare. dkhare. Follow @dkhare. Follow Dev on Quora. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. Archives. -
NEXTWALA | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2008 VentureBeat byline: The Digital Car Is the Next Big Applications. In addition, media companies such as Clear Channel and XM/Sirius have emerged, delivering audio entertainment and text data such as traffic to drivers. As a result, applications built around location, social media, communications, entertainment and a greener lifestyle are now all possible. NextWala. About Me. Dev Khare. www.about.me/dkhare. -
NEXTWALA | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2008 Verticalized mobile search wins over horizontal mobile search. NextWala. VC perspective and analysis from a former entrepreneur. About Me. Dev Khare. New Delhi, India. dkhare at lightspeedvp dot com. www.about.me/dkhare. dkhare. Follow @dkhare. Follow Dev on Quora. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. Recent Comments. Anu Anand on Indias Mobile Apps & Services Industry is in a Slump. Recent Posts. Archives. -
NEXTWALA | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2008 Red Cars vs. Blue Cars - NextWala Panelists included Stephan Durach of BMW's Technology Office , Tim Geison of Dash Navigation , Hans Wang of Forte Media , Robert Blake of Altera , and Thilo Koslowski of Gartner. NextWala. VC perspective and analysis from a former entrepreneur. About Me. Dev Khare. New Delhi, India. dkhare at lightspeedvp dot com. dkhare. -
NEXTWALA | MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2008 Ambient internet devices take hold - NextWala Zune), media players (e.g. NextWala. VC perspective and analysis from a former entrepreneur. About Me. Dev Khare. New Delhi, India. dkhare at lightspeedvp dot com. www.about.me/dkhare. dkhare. Follow @dkhare. Follow Dev on Quora. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter. Recent Comments. Rajat_garg on Mobile Rev-Share Changes Might Spark a Fire. -
NEXTWALA | FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 2009 Top 10 list from CES - NextWala Fred Wilson, Boxees investor at Union Square Ventures, calls this a Firefox for media centers. platform approach such as Boxees has a much greater opportunity than individual content widgets built for each separate TV model or media center model. NextWala. VC perspective and analysis from a former entrepreneur. About Me. Dev Khare. -
NEXTWALA | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2009 Confessions of a Car Salesman - NextWala After all, in this industry, leads have historically walked into dealerships, driven mostly by self-motivation but also by large scale advertising on TV by auto OEMs as well as smaller-scale advertisments in local newspapers and other media outlets by dealerships. NextWala. VC perspective and analysis from a former entrepreneur. About Me. -
NON-LINEAR GROWTH | TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 2009 The economics of on-demand services and social media are on my side of the argument in the long-term. A post by Ben Kepes over at CloudAve got me thinking about the economics of on-demand services, so I thought I’d do a quick blog. On-demand services businesses come in all shapes and sizes. This Customer Acquisition Costs: It all starts with acquiring a customer. -
NON-LINEAR GROWTH | THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 2009 Tearing apart the assumptions The trials and tribulations of traditional media are well documented. This executive – who is no longer with the company – worked on the digital side of the business and was conducting outreach to venture investors who had made digital media investments. If you think about it, this assumption pervades much of media. -
DAVID TETEN | FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2012 Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program If you’re from a major media outlet, please contact me to attend as a guest the pitch night in midtown Manhattan on June 27. For media and corporate sponsors interested in attending Pitch Night, contact Jennell Lynch, jlynch@naicpe.com. ###. Media Contacts. National Association of Investment Companies. Torsh, Inc.’s -
DAVID TETEN | FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2012 Market Research for Entrepreneurs and Other Cheapskates Events Market Research Social MediaI really enjoyed participating in OCE Discovery (Canada’s largest innovation conference). Some of our most exciting companies (500px, Interaxon) are in Canada. I’ve attached below the video and slide deck on Market Research for Entrepreneurs and Other Cheapskates. -
DAVID TETEN | TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2011 Launch of Harvard Business School Angels of New York Monday, 04/4/11 at 6:00pm: Innovation in Private Company Liquidity: Online M&A, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO. was honored to be asked, and we’ve now launched our organization and are accepting applications from early-stage companies seeking funding. RSVP: [link]. Daniel L. -
DAVID TETEN | MONDAY, JULY 25, 2011 Inaugural Investor Day @ FinTech Innovation Lab Data analytics : As part of a larger trend of " Big Data " (see our portfolio company InfoChimps ), consumers and financial institutions alike are looking for tools to leverage every kind of available data — from real-time financials to social media — for capital cost savings and competitive advantage. -
DAVID LEE | TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2012 Fit and Finish Social media or “word-of-mouth” channels like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and others get your app out to literally millions of people within months or even weeks. Originally written on 1.3.12. We also observed another common characteristic or trend in apps/services that got early, rapid traction. without damaging lash back. -
EARLY STAGE ADVENTURES | FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2011 Practically Green on ABC News A very nice ABC tv segment on Practically Green: Boston Digital media Portfolio -
EARLY STAGE ADVENTURES | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2011 Clovr Media now Linkable Networks Boston Digital media PortfolioYesterday Clovr made two big announcements. First, the company announced a change of name to Linkable Networks and second, a strategic investment from Citi Ventures. We are thrilled to welcome Citi to the investor group alongside terrific investors, Kepha Partners and Bain Capital Ventures. -
ABOVETHECROWD.COM | SATURDAY, MAY 2, 2009 Swine Flu: Overreaction More Costly Than the Virus Itself? Our “instant on” media has an insatiable appetite for the scintillating story. It is reassuring to see the press take a more modulated view of the swine-flu risks, especially as it becomes clear that both deaths and incidents have been overstated in the past week. Green Uncategorized Mexico Swine Flu -
ABOVETHECROWD.COM | SUNDAY, MAY 10, 2009 Bill Gurley’s Online Video Market Snapshot Internet online video Uncategorized Venture Capital video Media New MediaI recently spoke at AlwaysOn’s OnHollywood conference on the subject of today’s extremely dynamic online/Internet video world. Things are moving so amazingly fast that its extremely hard to predict specific outcomes. -
BURNHAM'S BEAT | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2005 Burnham's Beat: Software Stocks Update: October 2005 The best performing sectors were Digital Media (+8.5%), thanks to strong earnings from Adobe, and Operating Systems (+7.8%), due to continued strength at RedHat. Burnhams Beat. Articles on Technology and Finance. About Bill. Archived Posts. Blog Roll. IPO/M&A Lists. By Category. By Month. Recent Posts. Internet IPOs. Internet M&A. Database. -
BURNHAM'S BEAT | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 2006 Burnham's Beat: Internet Stock Update: February 2006 There was one Internet related IPO in February, online auctioneer Liquidity Services and the only M&A deal completed was Liberty Medias acquisition of Provide Commerce. Burnhams Beat. Articles on Technology and Finance. About Bill. Archived Posts. Blog Roll. IPO/M&A Lists. By Category. By Month. Recent Posts. Internet IPOs. Internet M&A. -
BURNHAM'S BEAT | MONDAY, APRIL 10, 2006 Burnham's Beat: Persistent Search: Search's Next Big Battleground For example, it’s not hard to imagine the major media companies offering persistent search services or “channels” to consumers for their favorite actor, author, or singer. Burnhams Beat. Articles on Technology and Finance. About Bill. Archived Posts. Blog Roll. IPO/M&A Lists. By Category. By Month. Recent Posts. Internet IPOs. Internet M&A. -
BURNHAM'S BEAT | THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 2007 Burnham's Beat: The Storage Explosion They have a number of important advantages over traditional magnetic media including dramatically faster file access times and the ability to process far more I/O operations per second. Burnhams Beat. Articles on Technology and Finance. About Bill. Archived Posts. Blog Roll. IPO/M&A Lists. By Category. By Month. Recent Posts. Internet IPOs. -
BURNHAM'S BEAT | THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2007 The Tax Man Cometh: Carried Interest, Risk, Fees, and Taxes Burnhams Beat. Articles on Technology and Finance. About Bill. Archived Posts. Blog Roll. IPO/M&A Lists. By Category. By Month. Recent Posts. Internet IPOs. Internet M&A. Software IPOs. Software M&A. Search This Blog. Subscribe to This Blog. RSS/ATOM Feed. Subscribe Via Email. The Tax Man Cometh: Carried Interest, Risk, Fees, and Taxes. Database. -
BURNHAM'S BEAT | TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2007 Burnham's Beat: Understanding Why Your VC Is Acting Crazy Early stage firms start doing late stage deals, technology firms start doing media deals, Austin firms start doing Dallas deals, etc. Burnhams Beat. Articles on Technology and Finance. About Bill. Archived Posts. Blog Roll. IPO/M&A Lists. By Category. By Month. Recent Posts. Internet IPOs. Internet M&A. Software IPOs. Software M&A. Database. -
BURNHAM'S BEAT | TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 2008 Burnham's Beat: Top 10 Internet Stocks of 2007 Comment : Formerly known as QXL and a serious competitor to EBAY in Eastern Europe, QXLs stock was supported by takeover rumors all year, which turned out to be true in December when South African media group Naspers announced a deal to acquire it. Burnhams Beat. Articles on Technology and Finance. About Bill. Archived Posts. Blog Roll. -
BURNHAM'S BEAT | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2008 Burnham's Beat: Microsoft/Yahoo: A Bad Deal For Silicon Valley If its acquired by Microsoft, that will leave only two Internet media/search acquirors with the ability to easily do sub $1BN deals. Burnhams Beat. Articles on Technology and Finance. About Bill. Archived Posts. Blog Roll. IPO/M&A Lists. By Category. By Month. Recent Posts. Internet IPOs. Internet M&A. Software IPOs. Software M&A. Database. -
BURNHAM'S BEAT | TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2008 Burnham's Beat: Wigix: An Idea Whose Time Has Finally Come am the current Category Expert for Audis , Digital Media Players and NAS Drives. Burnhams Beat. Articles on Technology and Finance. About Bill. Archived Posts. Blog Roll. IPO/M&A Lists. By Category. By Month. Recent Posts. Internet IPOs. Internet M&A. Software IPOs. Software M&A. Search This Blog. Subscribe to This Blog. RSS/ATOM Feed. Blogs. -
BURNHAM'S BEAT | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2008 Burnham's Beat: Madoff Madness: Seven Things You Might Not Know widely discussed in the media so far: Madoff’s investment firm was not a hedge fund, it was what’s called a. Burnhams Beat. Articles on Technology and Finance. About Bill. Archived Posts. Blog Roll. IPO/M&A Lists. By Category. By Month. Recent Posts. Internet IPOs. Internet M&A. Software IPOs. Software M&A. Search This Blog. profits. This -
BURNHAM'S BEAT | MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 2010 Burnham's Beat: Top 10 Best and Worst Software Stocks of 2009 The maker of Roxio and other branded digital media software soared in 2009 after being down -83.1% Burnhams Beat. Articles on Technology and Finance. About Bill. Archived Posts. Blog Roll. IPO/M&A Lists. By Category. By Month. Recent Posts. Internet IPOs. Internet M&A. Software IPOs. Software M&A. Search This Blog. RSS/ATOM Feed. -
AWEISSMAN.COM | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2006 Return of vertical integration? For example , John Hagel has argued that integration of content with distribution, in the media world, does not work very well. think the reason American Apparel works is because we are able integrate manufacturing and retail very closely." And more here from Peter Klein. Is this vertical integration -
AWEISSMAN.COM | TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 2007 Online advertising, again, equals data This should be the area that traditional media companies would move into, if they had any sense." - Stowe Boyd , Jan, 2, 2007 Right on. "Someone will successfully fuse social networking and online advertising. But no one has cracked the code yet, except for the mega-sites like MySpace and Yahoo. advertising -
AWEISSMAN.COM | FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2007 Advertising, Data, once more Over time, I think that we will find that online ad-based consumer insights will be more valuable than the media that we use to deliver the ad and capture the insights. This can help them reach consumers in places that are not apparent to them right now, thus opening up underdeveloped inventory. Advertising = data. data advertising -
AWEISSMAN.COM | FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2007 Segments and Data Audience and user segmentation, I believe, is the key to unlocking value from community driven publishing and media models and businesses. The ability to segment, in turn, requires a discrete level of correlated user, usage, media and context data. Amazingly insightful. segmentation data advertising yahoo -
AWEISSMAN.COM | MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 2007 Carmun, Education This corresponds to the first phase of a new form of media: that of a new way to do old things. [M] etabrain [E] ntry [L] og : So far we've predominantly been discovering better ways of representing standard course materials on webpages. Cell phones are like landlines without cords." In the meantime, take a peek at Carmun. It's a web 2.0 | |