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November 30, 2009
SimpleGeo: Dead Simple Location Awareness
I first met Matt Galligan when he started SocialThing and found him to be incredibly smart and engaging. When he saw a tweet on one of my regular trips to Boulder and pinged me I was excited to hear what he was working on next. First, he had partnered with Joe Stump, the guy [...]
November 29, 2009
Let’s just add in a little virality
It happens all the time. I’m meeting with an entrepreneur, who is telling me about a really innovative product idea for a consumer website. And I’m liking it. We’re going back and forth on product ideas. And before I ...
November 23, 2009
Seeking innovators, not inventors here
In my new role as an investor in the technology space, I make a similar distinction between inventors and innovators and while I love to meet with inventors, if you are not an innovator, it is unlikely I will want to be an investor. This post is about ...
November 21, 2009
Valuable meetings are not Deal or No Deal
I do my best to prepare for every meeting and to learn from everyone I meet. I want to engage with the ideas, not the deal because a career that is focused on getting to an answer that is no 99% of the time is going to ...
November 21, 2009
Valuable meetings are not “Deal or No Deal”
I do my best to prepare for every meeting and to learn from everyone I meet. I want to engage with the ideas, not the deal because a career that is focused on getting to an answer that is “no” 99% of the time is going to ...
Quick Followup: VCTips at Web 2.0 Expo
Just a quick post to take care of two VCTips housekeeping items: 1. A big thank-you to Amish Jani from FIRSTMARK Capital, Oren Netzer from DoubleVerify, and Avner Ronen from Boxee for joining me and Bryce Roberts at this week's VCTips workshop at Web 2.0 Expo New York. 2. If you'd like to get a copy of the workshop slides, you can download or view them below. (Though I uploaded them to the W2E ...
November 17, 2009
I think Tim O'Reilly's fear is misplaced because I believe in the power of the consumer and the ability of the consumer to drive innovation when they cannot find what they are looking for in the ...
November 14, 2009
Its the Lemons, Stupid: Economic theory, Scamville and why everyone should know better
For Zynga and the other social gaming sites, the consumer lead is the good being traded and the value of each lead is dependent on the average revenue it brings to the buyer. They should know better than to head down this slippery slope and they should know the problem is the ...
November 14, 2009
It’s the Lemons, Stupid: Economic theory, Scamville and why everyone should know better
For Zynga and the other social gaming sites, the consumer lead is the good being traded and the value of each lead is dependent on the average revenue it brings to the buyer. They should know better than to head down this slippery slope and they should know the problem is the ...
November 5, 2009
Find and Filter: the path to gourmet content consumption
The acceleration of content creation on the web, both social streams and traditional outlets, has created a situation where I almost always feel behind in terms of my ability to consume the information and overwhelmed by the effort required to pull the relevant stuff from the irrelevant. I have trouble with the find and filter process and either get bloated by consuming too much or end up content ...