Umair Haque has been an evangelist for the microchunking of media content – reducing content to its simplest unbundled form. Fred Wilson built on that notion saying that the “Future of Media” is to microchunk it, free it, syndicate it, […]

I think that it’s interesting to note that in transitioning towards a digital world, we are increasingly carrying numerous digital personas which affect how people contact us, how we communicate our personal media, and how we consume personalized media. There […]

We’ve seen a lot of recent examples of consumer web services and content which have taken off with viral adoption. While my perspective is that people over-use the term “viral”, it’s obvious that success cases are tremendous. I’ve been thinking […]

Earlier this week Fred Wilson (with Jarid Lukin) coined the phrase “Freemium” for the business model described: Give your service away for free, possibly ad supported but maybe not, acquire a lot of customers very efficiently through word of mouth, […]

Last night I attended the Geek Dinner organized by Pito Salas, Bela Labovitch, and Adam Green. It was an opportunity for “geeky-but-not-exclusively-geeks” people to “hang out, casually munch on cheap food and compare notes on stuff that people are working […]

As of a few days ago, I hit the one year mark with this blog, Genuine VC. 181 posts later, I am extremely happy with all of the time and effort that I’ve put into it over the past twelve […]

One of the first people who I ever worked for (Kelley Murphy, a partner at The Parthenon Group at the time) used to mandate something of his employees which I’ve rarely seen done since, though it significantly impacted me as […]

Bernard Moon has a thoughtful article posted today, “Forget the Long Tail! For video, it will be the big and mid-size players that win in the end.” in which he argues that the real winners in the rapidly-changing video landscape […]

In the past couple of months, a number of thoughtful posts have been written about content on “the Edge” of the web. I’ve been reluctant to comment on it thus far, because I am really torn as what to think […]

In past twenty-four hours, I’ve read both: • A New York Times article, Hungry Media Companies Find a Meager Menu of Web Sites to Buy. The theme portrayed is that despite all of the recent acquisitions in the consumer internet […]