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July 31, 2010

Publishers and agencies: Use your people skills to bring brand dollars online or Google will eat you

Phin Barnes - SneakerHead VC

The Right Media Open 2010 conference last week confirmed for me that transparency is coming to the advertising world in the form of quantitative marketing. Sometime very soon the vast majority of ad units will be sold via real time bidding platforms and publisher inventory and publisher audience will be ...

July 28, 2010

Follow the leader?

Josh Kopelman - Redeye VC

Whenever First Round Capital holds a party, we sometimes get emails from a few of our guests asking if they can bring another person with them. Maybe a VC friend of ours wants to bring another partner with him. ...

July 27, 2010

How SaaS is killing karaoke and the “entertainment” column in expense accounts everywher

Phin Barnes - SneakerHead VC

If you are looking to hire a head of sales for your SaaS based business, you should also know the impact of SaaS on the sales process and the money you will save in your entertainment ...

July 25, 2010

Anticipation is magic (in product experience)

Phin Barnes - SneakerHead VC

By anticipating my needs, Swipely showed me the ...

July 23, 2010

Switching over to a Mac, finally again…

Chris Fralic - Nothing To Say

I'm in the process of making the move - and I'm past the point of no return and I'm glad I did. It's not about "Think Different" - heck, I'd say Mac's are more than 50% of what you typically see at a Starbucks or startup these days. And it's not my first Mac by any stretch - I was selling and using Mac 128K's and 512K's 25 years ago, and got the second PowerBook 540C to arrive in Philadelphia ...

July 1, 2010

Effective board meetings in 10 steps (my first Quora inspired post)

Phin Barnes - SneakerHead VC

Recently, a meme on running great board meetings got started and a list of best practices emerged. This is the top 10 ...