So earlier this week I signed up for a Facebook account. The same day I read Giga Om’s post on his “long standing belief that social networks are going to become mere commodities.“ (He uses the example of Ning adding […]

From appearances, one of the most difficult decisions that a set of founders make about their early stage company is what to call the company and/or first product (often one in the same). The name game appears to be so […]

I’ve posted in the past how I enjoy visiting entrepreneurs in their own offices, as you can learn a lot about a startup in the way it expresses itself through the space which it occupies and uses. Over the past […]

In the past week or two, the notion of unexpected rewards (think: unanticipated acknowledgment of positive behavior) has come up in two entirely different conversations. But in both instances, the value of rewarding people out-of-the-blue facilitates the same thing – […]

While I have already privately shared the news with a few, I am pleased to communicate on my blog that I recently joined the venture capital firm Venrock as a Vice President. This is a very exciting event for me, […]

Interesting figures out of researcher firm PQ Media this month on the size and growth of “alternative out-of-home” media, which includes video advertising networks and screens in theatres, offices, stores, in-transit, and other digital billboard locations. According to their research, […]

As an early-stage VC, I have a unique privilege of confidentially spending time with a number of entrepreneurs throughout their company formation and initial product development process. And it’s amazed me how many times I’ve seen two entirely separate groups […]

Many have cried about the death of the pageview, largely due to the emergence of video content and AJAX-enabled pages with non-reload updated information. But the pageview isn’t dead. At least not yet. Rather, it’s just being dethroned. In Web1.0 […]

In the early days of a startup, it’s always all hands on deck. There are a set of founders or founder(s) with an early team, and the roles of who does what and when is often decided by whoever has […]

Michael Copeland’s latest Business2.0 article predicts a “tidal shift” towards the emergence of tech IPOs in the next couple months. While his language is perhaps excessively strong, I think that his sentiments will likely prove to be correct. There are […]