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David Beisel’s Perspective on Digital Change

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David Beisel’s Perspective on Digital Change

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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 […]

David Beisel
December 19, 2006 · 3  min.
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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 […]

David Beisel
December 18, 2006 · 2  min.
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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 […]

David Beisel
December 11, 2006 · 3  min.
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One week ago, I organized another meeting of the Boston Web Innovators Group (aka “WebInno”). This periodic gathering of people interested in web and mobile innovation has swelled in the past year since I formalized the group – we had […]

David Beisel
December 6, 2006 · 2  min.
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Most of the excitement about user-generated content usually focuses around blogs, videos, reviews, social network profile pages, etc. However, microcontributions – extremely small interactions where the user participates in the community of a website – are also becoming a notable […]

David Beisel
December 4, 2006 · 2  min.
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Analyst Spencer Wang of Bear Stearns just published a very good overview of the dynamics of the entertainment industry which argues that “aggregation & context and not content are king.” There isn’t anything entirely ground-breaking in the report, but it’s […]

David Beisel
November 28, 2006 · 2  min.
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Nearly all of the online video successes in the past year or two have been of pre-recorded video content. YouTube as a primary example, but the dozens of other key moments in online video have been time-shifted non-live content, save […]

David Beisel
November 15, 2006 · 3  min.
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After really enjoying last year’s event, I am looking forward to attending the Web 2.0 Conference next week out in San Francisco. Like all conferences, it’s really about connecting with people, as opposed to the content in the sessions themselves. If you’ve been meaning to reach out or just want to ensure that we reconnect while we’re both at the show, drop me an e-mail at [david at genuinevc dot com], and we’ll try to meet.

David Beisel
November 2, 2006 · < 1  min.
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Just under a year ago, I blogged about “(the beginnings of) social commerce” services which would “would provide consumers with rich social context and relevancy to the purchases which they are making.” Steve Rubel soon after picked up on the […]

David Beisel
November 1, 2006 · 3  min.
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Very interesting article in this week’s AdWeek about “advertisers… taking a broader view of search, buying terms they want consumers to associate with their brands, even though the searchers clearly aren’t hunting for their products.” It cites an example, “Honda […]

David Beisel
October 26, 2006 · 2  min.