I love numbers. When someone or a company has a rich set of data that’s meaningful, I like to really dive in. And so I am sometimes disappointed when the only figures that are presented are “averages.” Usually that translates […]

Last night’s Boston Web Innovators meeting turned out to be a success. We had quite a turnout, and a good mix of people. First-time and serial entrepreneurs, VCs, long-time bloggers, techies, MIT PhD computer science students, and many others all […]

In response to Dion Hinchcliffe’s list of issues and problems facing Web 2.0 today, Paul Montgomery comments, “How about Thinking The Whole World Is Like Silicon Valley? … Web 2.0 is still a very small, insular movement. There should be […]

In my last post, I wrote about advertorial content: content which is both advertising and editorial simultaneously. With many successful analogies in the real world and in the online world to use as a guide, current web innovators have a […]

In the past (here and here), I’ve written about advertorial content: content which is both advertising and editorial simultaneously. In these cases, the content is the advertising, yet it still delivers value to the end-user. There is something magical about […]

I love when I have an opportunity to visit entrepreneurs in their offices. After an initial pitch, and as we are getting to know a company, we nearly always visit the startup at their own site. To me, startup offices […]

Just an update to my previous post about the Boston Web Innovators Meetup that I am organizing. We now have a location – Tommy Doyle’s in Kendall Square. The private back-room is solely reserved for our function, with a cash […]

Yesterday, I posted about a smart little thing that I’ve seen entrepreneurs do when they pitch to us here at Masthead – asking if there is anyone who s/he should talk to that might be helpful. Today I wanted to […]

At Masthead, we meet with many entrepreneurs pitching us their startup for a potential investment. A lot has been written in the blogosphere recommending how to generally approach these meetings, so instead I thought it would be good to highlight […]

Last month, Rags Gupta and I put together a very informal meetup of like-minded individuals interested in internet / Web2.0 / mobile innovation based in the Boston/Cambridge area. Attendees included entrepreneurs (both self-funded & VC-backed), a few VCs, and a […]