Earlier this week Fred Wilson (with Jarid Lukin) coined the phrase “Freemium” for the business model described: Give your service away for free, possibly ad supported but maybe not, acquire a lot of customers very efficiently through word of mouth, […]

Last night I attended the Geek Dinner organized by Pito Salas, Bela Labovitch, and Adam Green. It was an opportunity for “geeky-but-not-exclusively-geeks” people to “hang out, casually munch on cheap food and compare notes on stuff that people are working […]

As of a few days ago, I hit the one year mark with this blog, Genuine VC. 181 posts later, I am extremely happy with all of the time and effort that I’ve put into it over the past twelve […]

One of the first people who I ever worked for (Kelley Murphy, a partner at The Parthenon Group at the time) used to mandate something of his employees which I’ve rarely seen done since, though it significantly impacted me as […]

Bernard Moon has a thoughtful article posted today, “Forget the Long Tail! For video, it will be the big and mid-size players that win in the end.” in which he argues that the real winners in the rapidly-changing video landscape […]

In the past couple of months, a number of thoughtful posts have been written about content on “the Edge” of the web. I’ve been reluctant to comment on it thus far, because I am really torn as what to think […]

In past twenty-four hours, I’ve read both: • A New York Times article, Hungry Media Companies Find a Meager Menu of Web Sites to Buy. The theme portrayed is that despite all of the recent acquisitions in the consumer internet […]

By definition, the unique quality of temporal content (i.e. content that takes time to consume, like audio/video, either streamed or downloaded, either user-generated or “produced”) is that it cannot be easily scanned to quickly assess its value (like written content […]

Consumers’ interaction with video content is dramatically changing these days, and the corresponding attention that fact is receiving is tremendous. I’ve been surprised, though, that in a number of conversations recently people have cited the (recycled?) distinction between “lean-in” and […]

In the venture capital raising process, entrepreneurs and the VCs spend a lot of time “getting to know one-another.” In a series of conversations/meetings, both sides ask a number of questions and provide plenty of answers. A lot of time […]