First impressions matter. And it’s not any different for marketing consumer-facing services on the web. Back at Sombasa Media, we published a series of consumer e-mail newsletters, each with their own website focused on convincing people to register for them. […]

This post is just a quick reminder about the upcoming Boston Web Innovators Group meeting this upcoming Monday evening. The details: Boston Web Innovators Group Monday January 30th at 6:30pm Blue Room in Kendall Square http://www.webinnovatorsgroup.com All who are interested […]

One of the articles in my VentureWire e-mail newsletter this morning mentioned that the video space is “so hot” right now. Not to be out-done, another quote in a different article in the same newsletter referred to it as “white […]

Ross Levinsohn, president of Fox Interactive Media, said yesterday at the NATPE Mobile Conference: “This is the year MySpace is going to go mobile. You can see them interacting on their computer, now want to extend that to the phone… […]

Yahoo and Google “are essentially competing with the venture capital community” with many of the recent company purchases really “talent acquisition.” Last week Om Malik wondered, given Yahoo’s recent modest financial quarter, if “falling stocks [will] bring [Web 2.0 company] […]

When meeting with entrepreneurs, VCs ask a lot of questions. And, of course, most of those are about the current startup business, the market, the vision of the future, the background and capabilities of the team, etc. But one of […]

This week’s AdWeek featured a great article covering the general trend of large brands seeking new ways to reach consumers on the mobile phone: “Small Screen, Big Ideas: How the new square inch of space is changing creative.” “The screen […]

Greg Yardley makes the prediction in his post “2006: watch your mouth and the bottom line” that in the upcoming year many currently zero-revenue startups will devote “an increased emphasis on revenue generation, and the placement of advertising everywhere advertisers […]

A few weeks ago I put together an informal gathering of web and mobile innovators in the Boston area. (You can read my and others’ blog write-ups of it here and here.) We had quite a nice turnout for the event, […]

Consumer-facing internet service business models can be boiled down into three simple steps – acquire users, add value, then monetize these users. In other words, buy traffic cheaply and then sell it for a richer price. This traffic cycle continues […]