I cannot recommend it enough for people in the technology or media sectors. am reminded about how dismissive traditionally television media is about YouTube – even to this day. One of the most influential books of my career is The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clay Christensen. It is not a beach novel to be sure. They can’t. MORE >>

GroupOn, Living Social, AdMeld, Gilt Group, Demand Media, ShoeDazzle, Tumblr, FourSquare, etc. Raising money is hard. And when you’re relatively new to the process it’s easy to be confused by the process. There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. Of course much of it is conflicting. Call high. Lobby. MORE >>

The biggest media attention in our industry went to the so-called “super angels&# during the 2009/10 timeframe and while I don’t believe there is such thing as a super angel I believe that much media attention was deserved. believe the changes to the industry will be lasting rather than temporal change. Rewind. Who knows? MORE >>

This has particularly hurt the print media businesses that can no longer charge enough to pay for editorial, printing & distribution. I’m often asked by people what investment areas interest me. It’s true that I have a functional focus on three areas: Performance-based marketing, digital television and mobile computing. It’s remarkable. MORE >>

We all read them to get a sense of what is going on in the world, peeling back layers of the old world in which media was too scripted. Much of my traffic is through referring websites and/or social media. Social media is ephemeral. This post originally ran on TechCrunch. Blogs. By definition, you read blogs. Absofuckinglutely. MORE >>