The best part of the VC job is opportunity and privilege of meeting with so many entrepreneurs. My favorite days are the ones in which I spent the entirety meeting with a couple of company founders. It’s both exciting and […]

When I saw John Battelle’s post from Saturday about MySpace’s classified site, the thing that immediately popped into my mind was the 90’s boom mantra of a web property’s three pillars: community, content, and commerce. With the latter two in […]

There are a number of great blog resources out there which offer great advice for entrepreneurs giving their initial VC pitch, most notably Allen Morgan’s Ten Commandments for Entrepreneurs. This is a must-read series detailing the context surrounding and strategy […]

In the Bipolarization of Internet Acquisitions, I put together a chart below counting the number of acquisitions in various price ranges by the top players in the category this year. It showed a lumping of acquisitions in both the under […]

We’ve been meeting with (and investing in) a number of online and mobile consumer-facing services startups recently. A lot of our due diligence questions when exploring these potential investments surrounds customer usage – after all, you can’t have a successful […]

In the context of recent discussions of Yahoo’s biz dev folks stating that the company is directly competing with VCs for deals, Paul Kedrosky says of Google, “It’s just that rather than buying some of the equity of early-stage, pre-revenue […]

This past summer I posted a piece entitled, After the Garden: Mobile Carriers Opening to Off-Deck Content, in which I wrote, “In the last few months, many have begun to predict that the U.S. industry will eventually emulate Europe’s model […]

I’ve been thinking about web traffic lately. And yes, I know that the traffic graphs of MySpace and TheFaceBook have been circled around the blogosphere a million times, but I am going to repeat them anyway: Two years of data. […]

I buy a lot of music. That’s right, I buy a lot of music. Recently, however, I’ve become frustrated with the increasing limitations placed on the music which I’ve legally purchased that includes restrictions from Digital Rights Management software incorporated […]

In the summer I wrote a quick entry entitled, The Mobile Phone: “Social Computer”, in which I said, “Until now my mobile telephone has been a two-way radio capable of playing a few mildly-amusing games and taking a few crude […]