Previous Entries
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- Myth Busters: Debunking Seven Conventional Wisdom Maxims of Venture Capital
- Driving to Conviction (Not to a Term Sheet)
- Startups Seeking Sherpas
- Why I Like Our Investment in Triple Lift
- Back to School – VC Homework Assignments
- Do Startup Location Matters Even Matter?
- Are We Entering 2013 in Crunch-Mode?
- The Right Question(s) to Ask VCs about Their Availability of Capital
- Early Seed Financing Terms Endure… Whether We Like It or Not
- The Golden Age of the Boston Internet Entrepreneur
- The Risks of Becoming an Advisor When You (Might) Want Something More
- After the VC Term Sheet is Signed – It’s Not Over Yet
- Playbook for Incoming MBAs to Start a Company Out of School
- Post-Seed Funding Checklist for Founder/CEOs
- Why Does Funding Begin with “Fun?”
- Our Investment in One Jackson: Fresh, Yet Familiar
- Signaling Pricing Expectations Early in Seed Investment Discussions
- VC Paradox: The Best of Times & Worst of Times (Part I)
- On Personal Networking: Ask For and Be Specific
- How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate
- What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says
- To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows
- Deciphering the Code of Your VC Conversation Location
- Are you an Inventor or a Founder?
- The Startup Offsite
- A VC Walks into Your Pitch Meeting Biased
- Authenticity is Experience
- A New Dawn for Consumer Internet Acquisitions
- What the Founder’s Email Address Says About Your Startup
- Searching for the Kinect Killer App
- Overly-Direct Feedback to VC Pitches
- Why VCs Invest in Startups with Gravity
- NextView Ethos – Tribe
- A Choir of Angel Investors Sing Different Parts
- Three Magical VC Pitch Questions
- Start Your Marketplace Engines
- Your Office Space is the Face of Your Startup
- Super Pro-Rata Rights Aren’t Super
- Our Investment in CustomMade: Riding the Next Wave of E-Commerce in High-Consideration Shopping
- Time & Money – Fundraising for VC When It’s Natural
- Optimizing Series A Fundraising Around…Partnership Buy-In
- Beer Kegs and the Future of Venture Capital: What It Means for Entrepreneurs
- Snake-Oil Startup Recruiting
- VC Fundraising is Neither a Sprint nor a Marathon
- Giving Due Diligence Calls Their Due
- NextView’s New Office View
- NextView Ventures’ TurningArt Investment Aims to Transform Art Buying Experience
- How to Find the Perfect Startup Job: Part IV “Negotiating the Startup Offer”
- How to Find the Perfect Startup Job: Part III “Selecting the Right Venture”
- How to Find the Perfect Startup Job: Part II “Sifting Through a Sea of Companies”
- How to Find the Perfect Startup Job: Part I “Start with ‘When’”
- Officially Launching NextView Ventures
- A Beer Drinker’s View of the Venture Industry
- For Micro VCs, Quick Diligence Is Not Less Diligence
- Micro VCs Are all BFFs… Forever?
- Seed Stage Firms are Dead, Long Live Micro VCs
- Excited to Co-Found a New Micro VC Firm
- The Problem with Talking to VCs
- What’s Your Founder Superpower?
- Seven Lessons I’ve Learned Organizing Events
- Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions? Then (Google) & Now (Apple)
- Majority of both Drivers and VCs are Above Average
- Why AOL’s “About.com 2.0″ strategy will work… for a while
- Has the tide turned for YouTube/Google? (ComScore says so but doesn’t scream it) The next phase of online video
- The Swinging Pendulum Between Distribution and Monetization
- It’s Always Sunny on the Web
- Our Second Rotation Investment
- Getting the Gang Back Together
- Those Key Early Employees
- The Annual Marker of the Web2.0 Summit
- The Shift Towards Universal Search
- Four Branches of the Green Web
- Seven Coming Digital Uber-trends which Are Ripe for Startup Opportunities
- Gazing at your Own Navel: On Social Networks, Blogging, and Brands
- The Name Game
- Sharing Space… and More
- Unexpected Rewards
- Joining Venrock, Focused on Digital Media Investments
- What Does it Mean for Public Space to go Digital?
- Concurrent Startup Idea Generation and the Pervasive Copycat Fallacy
- Measuring the Effectiveness of Measurement
- Growing Up from Tribal Mode into an Organization
- Pop Goes the IPO?
- Social Media Monetization via Acquisition at FIM
- The Real Reason I Love My BlackBerry
- Asking About the Founding Story
- Social Media Monetization
- Super Media XLI
- Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
- Advertising in the WWW (Wide World of Widgets)
- Vertical Marketplaces – Connecting Buyers and Sellers
- After Google is the Fourth Age of Computing?
- MIT EF “Brave New Web” Conference / A Call For New England Startups
- Why I Like Our ExpoTV Investment
- 2006 Was The Year of… Syndication Widgets
- Seven Lessons Learned for Startups
- The Web Energy in Boston – WebInno
- Small Contributions are a Big Deal
- The Royal Throne in the Entertainment Business – Don’t Kill the Messenger
- Does “Live” Video Matter on the Web?
- Headed to Web2.0 Conference Next Week – Are You?
- The Emerging Field of Social Commerce and Social Shopping
- The Branding Benefits from Pay-Per-Performance
- Information Dissemination and Feature Parity (or “Bells and Whistles Don’t Win the Day”)
- Only A Million Dollars?
- It Usually Doesn’t Work the First Time
- Why I Like Our Tremor Investment
- Are Your Employees Leaving? The Unintended Consquences of Shining Up that (Virtual) Resume
- Updates on New New Media
- The Challenges of SMO
- When Posters Aren’t Paper
- Watching It All: Integrated Multidevice Media Experiences
- The Meaning of Badge Proliferation
- Thinking About Online Video (Part II): How Long Will it Go?
- Frameworking Changes in Consumer Behavior
- Countdown to Launch
- Thinking about Online Video (Part I): How Far Will it Go?
- The Value of the Demo
- AJAX Shouldn’t Just Wow, But Also Register
- eBay’s AdContext (and “AmazonContext”?)
- eBay Goes Social with Commerce
- Search’s March Towards Advertorial
- Local Video: “Just Around the Corner”
- You Never Know Who You’re Going to Get
- Three Things I’ve Been Thinking About
- Advertorial Podcasting
- All Users Are Not Created Equal
- Discovery vs. Consumption
- New New Media Continues
- New New Media Continues
- The Simple Online Inventory Equation
- My First Podcast
- Inputting and Seeing is Believing
- Where Mobile Advertisements Roam
- Microchunking Doesn’t Mean Microconsumption
- Rambling on Digital Personas
- Lessons on Being Lucky & the Three Components of Viral Adoption
- Musing on Freemium and Ad-Supported
- “There’s Something Going On” in Boston
- One Year of Blogging
- Scheduling Unstructured Time to Think
- Go Medium or Go Home?
- On The Edge About The Edge
- Doom & Gloom or Opportunity
- Temporal Content (and Advertisements) Need Expectations
- Leaning in Different Directions
- Informative Answers, Enlightening Questions
- To Be (Vertical) or Not to Be
- The Divide Between Geeks and My Grandmother
- Web Innovators Group – New Site and Next Event Mar 20th
- What is Podcasting? More Importantly, What Will it Be?
- The Fonz and the AmazonPod
- It’s Not Just Fun and Games
- Vertical Social Networks
- “Paying” For Video Content – Let Me Count The Ways
- Super Bowl, Super Digital Media, and the Super Steelers
- Musing on Social Advertising
- First Things First (Applying the Basic Lessons from Traditional Direct Marketing to Home & Landing Pages)
- Reminder: Boston Web Innovators Group – 6:30pm Monday January 30th @ Blue Room
- The Wild West of Video
- The Name Game
- Great Expectations
- The Founding Story
- Creative Mobile Creative: Here and Now
- Getting Creative with Revenue
- Boston Web Innovators Group – Monday January 30th @ 6:30pm
- The Economics & Semantics of Traffic Arbitrage
- Communicating and Connecting with Readers in 2006
- Startup Offices Are Like Faces (Part II)
- Leaping from “Digerati-Facing Services” to “Consumer-Facing Services”
- The Far Web Expands to the Everywhere Web
- Flip to Revenue
- Network Effects and Connection Strength
- Don’t Just Look Left and Right, But Also Up and Down
- The Search for Delicious Bookmarking Revenue
- First, Second, and Third Pages of Search
- (The Beginnings of) Social Commerce
- Dead Raw Fish = Sushi
- Community, Content, and Commerce — Oh My!
- Seven Common Tactical Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in their Initial VC Pitch which are Simple to Fix
- VCs and Bipolarization: What Hasn’t Happened – Yet
- Friction is Multiplicative
- Bipolarization of Internet Acquisitions in 2005
- Your Ad-Supported Mobile Content
- Tracking Traffic
- Fear (and Loathing?) of DRM
- Mobile Phones: Computers or Something Else? It’s the Social Software and Content that Matters.
- Better than Average
- Boston Web Innovators Recap
- Between the Valley and Everyone Else
- The Magic of Advertorial Content (Part II: “How To”)
- The Magic of Advertorial Content (Part I)
- Startup Offices Are Like Faces
- Boston Web Innovators Meetup – 6:30pm Nov 8th at Tommy Doyle’s
- Smart Little Things (Part II: Updating on Your Successes)
- Smart Little Things (Part I)
- Boston Web Innovators Meetup – Nov 8th
- Seven Questions Employees Should Ask Before Joining a Startup
- Reasonable Demands
- Stealth Mode
- Conferences are for Conversations
- A Healthy Skepticism about Web 2.0
- What “Web 2.0” Means to Me
- My Favorite Quote from Web2.0 Today – Authenticity
- Minor Tidbits from Web2.0 Conference
- Opportunity on the Third Screen
- TRETC / Attention Theft
- The Importance of Being Authentic
- Web2.0 – The Conference
- OnTour Helps Me Find Who’s On Tour
- Spread the Word: It’s Not Viral
- …Thinking About YubNub and a GUI IOS…
- The Future of Music
- Wishing Well (for Personalized Communication)
- The Meaning of *How* You Communicate
- Seven Reasons To Become a Founding Entrepreneur
- eBay and Skype: Connectivity over Content
- Seven Founding Sins
- An Alpha Post
- When a Beta Isn’t Enough
- Fishing for a Podcast
- Mobile Phone Advertising
- Browsing Office and Storage 2.0
- A VC Wiki Solution?
- Seeding User Generated Content
- Google to Gobble Gobble Gobble or Just Selling High
- Google Gobbles Mobile
- One Size Search Doesn’t Fit All
- All That (Content) Glitters is Not Gold
- Why I Like Our InterCasting Investment
- Public Information Made More Public
- The (Perfect) Timing of Selling Search
- Embrace or Shun RSS
- Knowing What You Don’t Know
- Knowing What You Don’t Know
- The Mobile Phone: “Social Computer”
- A Few Quick Random Thoughts
- How Yummy are Cookies?
- NewsHound Makes it Easier
- …Is The New…
- The People’s Internet(?)
- Struggling with Identifying Your Customers
- XFN and the Open Social Network
- Search vs. Discovery
- Calling it Web 2.0? I Guess it’s Happening.
- Four-Star VC
- Musing on Three Not-So-Fully-Baked Ideas
- Stop! You Shouldn’t Blog. The Risks of Professional Blogging
- Entrepreneur Bootstrapping Follow-Up
- A Picture Ahead of its Time
- Social Networks: The Network or the Service?
- VC’s (and Entrepreneur’s) Magic Number Follow-Up
- Time for a Venture Capital Reference Wiki? Looking for Your Input.
- After the Garden: Mobile Carriers Opening to Off-Deck Content
- Music Startups without the Music
- Millions of Roaming Open Source Reporters
- An Entrepreneur’s Perspective on Information Asymmetry in Bootstrapping
- Know Your VC’s Magic Number
- Channeling Content: The VC Channel
- Ramifications of Sarbanes-Oxley
- The Mobile Camera-Phone: Your Portable Input Device
- Continued Conversation about Angel Bloggers
- eBay Shopping for Searchers
- Is the Bubble Back?
- All VC Firms’ Processes are Different
- VCs and Angels, Where are the Angel Bloggers?
- Tivo and Personalized Predictive Media (Part III)
- Findory and Personalized Predictive Media (Part II)
- Amazon and Personalized Predictive Media (Part I)
- Got Radio?
- Social Networking for a Reason (and Revenue)
- Search Spam That’s Coming… (Time-based)
- Freakonomics & Correlation/Causation
- Knowing Your (Incremental) Online Reputation
- The Need for Speed
- Explicit, Implicit, & Advertorial RSS Monetization
- Syndicate Theme: Choice and Voice -or- My Media, I am My Media
- Enterprise Software is Dead But it Won’t Die
- The New Startup Model? (Google & Dodgeball)
- Seven Reasons Keyword Prices Are Rising
- East Meets West
- Syndi Conference
- The Things That You Can Do…
- My Pet Peeve: Correlation vs. Causation
- 30-Second Ads Aren’t the New 30-Second Ads
- Blog Hypecycle Datapoints
- Riding the Hypecycle
- The Fine Line Between Search Engine Spam and Content
- The Bright Line Between Adware and Behavioral Targeting
- Attack of the Killer Online Ads
- VC Money – How Much and Where it Goes
- The Implications of Better Search Results: Talking about the Long Tail without Really Talking About It
- Google Becomes an Ad-Network Company
- Business Planning The Future
- Hype, Measuring the Hype, and Too Much Hype
- More Support For New New Media
- Why I Like Our NewsGator Investment
- All the News That’s Fit to Blog
- Adobe-Macromedia Deal: Same Neighborhood, Different End of the Street
- The Case for New New Media
- Kill TV? Maybe Not, But It Will Chip Away…
- Fred Wilson’s Talk is Del.icio.us
- “Me TV” at CNET
- Online Communications Strategy for Startups
- Are RSS Ads Really Controversial?
- RSS Isn’t Just For Blogs
- Why is Boston Really Hitless?
- The New New Thing – “New New Media”
- Google Q&A – A Small Step for Microcontent
- Portals and Startups
- One More Yahoo!
- Yahoo! For Yahoo!
- Social Tagging – What to Think?
- Ask Me Then, Ask Me Now
- My New Favorite Vertical Search Site – EVDB
- Web Analytics ARE Relevant, at Least Google Thinks So
- Resurrection: The Internet Rises from the Dead
- The Incremental Web is Here
- Why Genuine VC?
- Introduction
