In the past week or two, the notion of unexpected rewards (think: unanticipated acknowledgment of positive behavior) has come up in two entirely different conversations. But in both instances, the value of rewarding people out-of-the-blue facilitates the same thing – […]

While I have already privately shared the news with a few, I am pleased to communicate on my blog that I recently joined the venture capital firm Venrock as a Vice President. This is a very exciting event for me, […]

Interesting figures out of researcher firm PQ Media this month on the size and growth of “alternative out-of-home” media, which includes video advertising networks and screens in theatres, offices, stores, in-transit, and other digital billboard locations. According to their research, […]

As an early-stage VC, I have a unique privilege of confidentially spending time with a number of entrepreneurs throughout their company formation and initial product development process. And it’s amazed me how many times I’ve seen two entirely separate groups […]

Many have cried about the death of the pageview, largely due to the emergence of video content and AJAX-enabled pages with non-reload updated information. But the pageview isn’t dead. At least not yet. Rather, it’s just being dethroned. In Web1.0 […]

In the early days of a startup, it’s always all hands on deck. There are a set of founders or founder(s) with an early team, and the roles of who does what and when is often decided by whoever has […]

Michael Copeland’s latest Business2.0 article predicts a “tidal shift” towards the emergence of tech IPOs in the next couple months. While his language is perhaps excessively strong, I think that his sentiments will likely prove to be correct. There are […]

Om Malik wonders “why did Fox buy Strategic Data” saying that “It is becoming obvious 2007 is the ‘show me the money’ year for MySpace and other FIM acquisitions.” At face value, this deal is a notable move of taking […]

Yesterday I came across yet another (read: tired subject matter) article about the perils of living in an “always on” culture with the advent of portable devices like BlackBerrys and Treos. While I fall into the camp of viewing the […]

A year ago I posted about when I meet with entrepreneurs for the first time that I like to ask about the founding story, the plot of how the idea for the company was generated and how the principals in […]