Over the past couple years, I have been involved with and close to a number of both successful and unsuccessful startups. To me, the most exciting (and most perilous) times in a company’s life-cycle are the early first stages when […]

Thinking about the meaning of “beta” after yesterday’s entry concerning the term’s potential overuse, I wish the term could be alternatively applied in one certain situation – on my blog posts. More generally, what if there was a way to […]

One of the great benefits of Web2.0 consumer internet services is that the product cycles have diminished. No longer are the next versions available and shipped every eighteen months like traditional shrink-wrapped software. Instead, when a new feature is ready, […]

Like Jeff Nolan and Russell Glass have recently expressed, I am struggling with the excitement surrounding podcasting. Yes, I understand that it is an extension of user-generated content into another media type and that it rides the wave of digitized […]

I’ve recently just begun to spend a little bit of time thinking about marketing and advertising on mobile phones. With my background in online/e-mail direct marketing, I can easily see the potential power of direct marketing opportunities that the mobile […]

Coincidentally (or maybe not so) in the past week, I’ve been in a few conversations about more and more apps coming to a browser near you enabled by Ajax – namely an alternative to the Microsoft Office suite. Paolo Massa […]

Yesterday Jeff Nolan raised the idea of creating a VC wiki as a central repository for all of the valuable content created by venture bloggers as of late (spurred on by Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson’s Term Sheet Series). I […]

One large difficulty facing web startups relying on user-generated content is the chicken-and-egg problem of creating both the content and an audience. Without people creating/sharing material, there’s no reason for people to surf the site; without traffic, there’s little reason […]

Just one day after I suggested that Google’s acquisition strategy is to cherry-pick small pre-significant-funding startups to buy innovation and engineering talent, the company announces that it plans to sell approximately $4.2B in shares of its stock. And as Paul […]

Earlier this morning, it became public that in July Google purchased Andriod, a company which makes mobile software for mobile phones. While there is little known about the company or the transaction, I have a couple quick thoughts and reactions: […]