Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Or how about the best example – Loic Le Meur gets everybody over to Paris every year for Le Web. It also has a built-in advantage in telling the world how awesome it’s doing – it’s the center of the media world. There is much magic going on in this town with both pure tech as well as media tech.

Community 378

Community San Diego Silicon Valley Los Angeles 378

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2014

I also added a little Soundcloud widget on the sidebar (if you’re viewing on web – not on mobile or RSS reader) that you can listen to each episode with. In the most recent episode, I interviewed Joe Perez , Founder of Tastemade. If you don’t know Joe, you should.

Management 292

Management Founder Product RSS 292

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

I wrote this on my flight home from f.ounders & web summit in Dublin, Ireland late last year. My trip was scheduled around the annual Web Summit and the f.ounders conference, both of which have become the hottest must-attend event in Europe and rivaling any great conference in the US. The Origins of Web Summit / f.ounders.

Ireland 392

Ireland Global Las Vegas Switzerland 392

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

He built & IPOd Demand Media. LA is the largest metropolitan area in the US for people employed in art, design and media and the local creative economy of LA generates more than $140 billion in economic output – more than the GDP of many countries. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite.

Los Angeles 376

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Seattle 376

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2009

They had signed up Gawker Media and the New York Post. They had signed up Glam Media and TMZ. They had started to launch new products that helped web site owners better load applications from third-party vendors and they started experimenting with totally new ad models that drove the daily revenue up by 7x in less than 30 days.

Entrepreneur 291

Entrepreneur Term Sheet Early Stage Affiliate 291

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

My point was that Amazon continues to dominate the web services business because AWS continues to cut prices & margin in the same way a hypermarket does to control market share. Every politician in the country knows this as well as every consumer brand, every retailer, every restaurant and every media company. I wasn’t.

South America 291

South America Colombia Mexico Vertical 291

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I’m looking at how the digital living room will change media consumption. I continue to be excited about the Mobile Web (as distinct from the Mobile App). Plus, as I live in Los Angeles it is where some of the smartest talent thinking about this space resides. I still love B2B application.

Florida 299

Florida Technical Review San Antonio Los Angeles 299

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. Offers cloud-based web analytics software provider. Providing web abalytics to 2,100+ brands (including: BofA, Office Depot).

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. In joining Launchpad he’s agreed to move here, which is a natural fit given their emerging set of media partners. It is no wonder web content players with large audiences are all inking deals with them now.

Los Angeles 276

Los Angeles Stealth Securities and Exchange Commission Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2011

Most web publishers measure where their traffic is coming from using an analytics package such as Google Analytics, Omniture or Core Metrics. These were good packages in the pre social media world at helping figure out who was driving your traffic. to track all of my social media sharing behavior. Today they’re wrong.

Analytics 292

Analytics Social Media Campaign Viral 292

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 15, 2012

I was jealous watching all my friends surf the web on their iPhones. iPhone became my media consumption device. I used it to browse the web. But I couldn’t suspend disbelief that it was anything but a poor cousin to the iPhone. Maybe Android devices are great by now. But it’s hard to go back. And all the Apps.

Turkey 386

Turkey Email Internet Web 386

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. They help speed up the network by pushing the highly viewed and large media files to the “edge&# of the network (e.g. High Profile Deal of the Week: 1. This is “Adsense for Twitter.” In fact, it is Overture 2.0. Overture sold for $1.6

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Affiliate Valuation San Francisco 271

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It means the “ torso TV ” consumption patterns will be more important than the head or the long tail for the next era of media companies. You should only worry about this if you’re a large, traditional media company with fat margins. But when you think about the movement we once called “Web 2.0″

Video 380

Video Audience Global Distribution 380

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

Digital Media was an obvious theme because it’s one in which LA (where I’m based) and NY (where I spend a lot of time) have strong assets, companies and management teams. While the media industry is driven by a combination of subscriptions and advertising – it’s clear that the latter plays a unique role in media.

Mobile 329

Mobile Advertising Affiliate Internet 329

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

.” You have an “Elvis Presley like moment” where you realize the next generation is already consuming different media than our tastes might appreciate. Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media. That is YouTube today. I think most arguments miss the mark.

SEM 150

SEM Los Angeles Silicon Valley Acquisition 150

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Last year’s passé terms that even entrepreneurs cringe at (and the best are embarrassed to lead with) are social network, social media and social games. And Siebel on your desktop is not the same as Salesforce.com on the web. I hope they are because badges will run their course. I guess “social&# is just soooo last year.

Silicon Valley 296

Silicon Valley Warrant Flash Differentiation 296

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. You have a marketing department with three people. They’re tasked with doing … marketing.

Cofounder 164

Cofounder Retention PR SEO 164

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Provider of real-time data and predictive analytics for web site publishers. Customer are primarily large media companies (publishers) and their media agencies. MetaMarkets.

Founder 214

Founder San Diego SMS Los Angeles 214

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy built her company, Recycled Media , out of necessity. This was the first in her string of web properties. Danny became a small investor in Recycled Media (the parent company of Recycled Bride) and became one of Tracy’s lead advisors. She’s a painter and a self-proclaimed Bohemian.

Silicon Valley 363

Silicon Valley Cofounder Entrepreneur Startup 363

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

You need to make it an effort by researching on the web and going and doing 50 coffee meetings with people. This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC. When you want to find out information about who knows whom it is really not difficult. The information is publicly available. Most people are not action oriented.

Silicon Valley 291

Silicon Valley Ireland Technical Review Valuation 291

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! As you traveled the web and found stuff you liked you could “bookmark&# it (sound familiar) so that you could find it again. It’s at the core of what Delicious was.

XML 349

XML Curation RSS Viral 349

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. There are three “megatrends” as he puts it – real time data, the social web and flash marketing. I first heard about the company from Dave McClure and have tracked it on the sidelines a bit since then. These are all “billion dollar industries” he says.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

But as with consulting, PR, web design and even VC – it’s not just the firm it’s also the individual. of Stubbs Alderton, a firm that focused exclusively on early-stage tech, media and game companies in Southern California. I worked with Sam Angus at Fenwick & West. So it doesn’t have to be a small firm.

Southern California 318

Southern California Silicon Valley IP Stock Options 318

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

For start, there are many types of businesses that are large or complex “considered purchases” that have higher close rates over the phone than on a web form. Of course the media doesn’t do nuance well so this is an emotional topic. Why does that matter? But here’s the big “aha.” When you think about what makes Google so valuable?—?it’s

IP 223

IP Intellectual Property IRR Cofounder 223

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There is no sector of the economy that isn’t being transformed by the online community that is now voraciously consuming media, applications, communications and buying global products. It’s not just that we’re connected to the Internet at higher speeds and for longer; we’re actually always tethered to the web. And the future?

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

The currency of the real-time web is, for now, your Twitter address. If you’re not capturing the names of people who are talking about you on the real-time web you’re missing out on CRM opportunities (direct marketing, customer support, 2-way conversations, monitoring future conversations).

Conversion 235

Conversion Management Social Network Philadelphia 235

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. If you want something to be shared virally on the web it has to be short.&#. That’s why people turn up to Buzzfeed.

Viral 354

Viral Video RSS Audio 354

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 1.0: The Present Era.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2015

Technology is of course a dual-edge sword but the media discussions of how it affects human interactions all too often focuses on the downsides. means my whole web wide world would forget that I exist. I face Facebook. more than books face me. book face-to-faces. update my status. 420 spaces. to prove I’m still breathing.

Mobile 150

Mobile Technology Email Programming 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Klout measures influence on topics across the social web to find the people the world listens to; assigns a Klout score to Twitter members. Segment Two: “Deal of the Week”.

IPO 236

IPO .Net Venture Capital Strategic Investors 236

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2010

Many of us in the technology, media and VC world sit on panels at lot. Things to know: mix of entrepreneurs, big tech company execs, service providers, media people, VCs, etc. It’s “earned media.&#. I first met Aydin at a DealMaker Media event where, you guessed it, we sat on a panel together. And thy topic.

Audience 284

Audience Venture Capital Restful Warrant 284

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Competitors: Google (Invite Media) , MediaMath , X+1. -A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Offers virality optimization tools and A/B testing inside Facebook. a fbFund winner.

San Francisco 248

San Francisco Venture Capital Analytics Government 248

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. The success of the iPhone – The success of the iPhone and more importantly the App Store has led to an increase in early-stage VC fundings that mirror the Web 2.0

IPO 255

IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Tynt Multimedia “Online tool that allows content sites to control copy-paste activity on their web sites.&# For starters I LOVE the idea for this product. $5.0mm in Series C. Investors: Union Square (lead), Spark Capital (lead).

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Social Network Angel Investor Chad 265

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Search will remain big but stream is an increasing method of discovering information and therefore driving web traffic. But more broadly I believe that you’ll see a lot more tools for helping marketers more effectively run, monitor and manage social media campaigns. Early evidence is good.

Advertising 284

Advertising Las Vegas Affiliate RSS 284

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I re-connected with Andy Liu the founder & CEO of BuddyTV – the largest destination for social TV enthusiasts on the web. Every region needs its local media & events. on to their next companies and that produced Demand Media, a public company who even with a slight recent reduction in share price is still trading at $1.3

Seattle 317

Seattle Silicon Valley Technical Review Los Angeles 317