Greg Yardley makes the prediction in his post “2006: watch your mouth and the bottom line” that in the upcoming year many currently zero-revenue startups will devote “an increased emphasis on revenue generation, and the placement of advertising everywhere advertisers […]

A few weeks ago I put together an informal gathering of web and mobile innovators in the Boston area. (You can read my and others’ blog write-ups of it here and here.) We had quite a nice turnout for the event, […]

Consumer-facing internet service business models can be boiled down into three simple steps – acquire users, add value, then monetize these users. In other words, buy traffic cheaply and then sell it for a richer price. This traffic cycle continues […]

Probably the most rewarding (and unexpected) benefit of blogging has been the interaction and communication with some of the people who read my blog. One of my favorite daily activities is to read the comments to a post and hear […]

Startup offices are like faces. They communicate what is going on in the inside, revealing subtle cues about a company’s core. An office is both a reflection of and a signal to prospective & current employees, customers, and investors what […]

In his post “First 300,000 is Easy,” Om Malik questions “if the whole Web 2.0 thing is still in a very-early adopter stage… I get a feeling that it will be a long time before the concepts filter into mainstream […]

Back in late September, I attended the MIT Review Emerging Technologies Conference, which included a speech by Bill Joy (current Kleiner-Perkins partner and co-founder of Sun Microsystems). In it, he reiterated his “Six Webs” framework of how he categorizes the […]

In the context of Don Dodge’s and Dare Obasanjo’s conversation about flipping a web startup to one of the major internet players (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL), Greg Yardley writes about the “build-to-flip” mentality which seems to be circling these days: […]

In yesterday’s post, I argued that the value of a (online social) network is not only determined by the number of nodes in it, but also in the ability for the network to monetize those nodes. (I believe, however, that […]

I like the quote last week from Fox Interactive Media’s President Ross Levinsohn (via paidcontent.org): “[ FIM will focus on ] social portals… Why have one portal when we can have 70 million?” There is a lot of merit to […]