Valuable meetings are not “Deal or No Deal”

Phin Barnes - SneakerHead VC

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 ...

Monopoly or Infrastructure?

Phin Barnes - SneakerHead VC

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 ...

It�s the Lemons, Stupid: Economic theory, Scamville and why everyone should know better

Phin Barnes - SneakerHead VC

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 ...

It’s the Lemons, Stupid: Economic theory, Scamville and why everyone should know better

Phin Barnes - SneakerHead VC

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 ...

Find and Filter: the path to gourmet content consumption

Phin Barnes - SneakerHead VC

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 ...

It’s not even 80/20 - 8% of Internet users account for 85% of clicks

Chris Fralic - Nothing To Say

I'm surprised there hasn't been more focus on the recently updated report from comScore/Starcom/Tacoda titled "Natural Born Clickers." An overview can be found here, but the conclusions are startling: The number of people who click on dislpay ads has dropped from 32% to 16% in the last 2 years. 8% of all Internet users account for 85% of all clicks 4% of all Internet users are considered ...

First Round Capital Entertainment Summit

Chris Fralic - Nothing To Say

Last week we held our first Entertainment Summit in Los Angeles CA at the impressive SLS Hotel, following a similar format we launched at our New York Agency Days last fall. This time we brought together 16 First Round Capital portfolio companies who presented and met with over 100 Hollywood technology and media executives, including attendees from: Movie Studios: 20th Century Fox, ...

VC - Back to the Future?

Josh Kopelman - Redeye VC

I just came across a great report by Industry Little Hawk entitled the Venture Capital Rebound (pdf). In the report, the authors reach a similar conclusion to Paul Kedrosky (read Paul's great research for the Kauffman Foundation here) -- ...