Last Saturday I had the privilege of participating on a panel at the Harvard Business School Venture Capital and Private Equity Conference entitled “What’s Next: What will be the next hot sectors for venture investment?” All of the panelists were […]

Because my Pittsburgh Steelers’ mediocre season didn’t propel them into this year’s Super Bowl, this weekend I will be paying more attention to the media experience as a whole rather than the game itself. The premier media event of the […]

This morning I was reading this week’s issue of Chris Shipley’s Guidewire report which addressed a popular topic du jour, asking whether or not we’re in a bubble for web-based businesses. The paper argues that “compared to the Dot Com […]

When there’s an article on something in the New York Times, as there was last week on widgets – you know the concept has gone mainstream. I’ve been spending a lot of time recently reading blogs about, thinking about, and […]

One type of company largely uncovered in the web 2.0 blogosphere is the emergence of vertical marketplaces – or at least the framing of them that way. Of course, eBay has traditionally been the ultimate marketplace brining buyers and sellers […]

I’ve enjoyed reading all of the blog discussion in the past few days in response to Rich Skrenta’s Monday “Winner-Take-All” post. He deemed Google the winner in this “third age of computing” (2001-) having succeeded the prior two of Microsoft […]

For the past couple months, I’ve been co-chairing a committee with Henry Houh of Podzinger which is organizing this winter’s MIT Enterprise Forum conference. Entitled “Brave New Web,” it’s going to be held on February 7th at the Colonnade Hotel […]

As I’ve done with others in which I’ve been intimately involved with a new investment here at Masthead, I wanted to write a blog post describing why I believe our most recent is a promising one for our firm (See […]

There are many blog commentators out there (including myself) who at the beginning of the year predicated that 2006 would be the year of video (here). And, of course, we are all now patting ourselves on our back for what […]

In the last few weeks, there has been some chatter in the VC blogosphere about the importance of good mentors. Since my own first job, I personally have been very lucky to have a number of mentors, managers, and teachers […]