Two weeks ago, I wrote was has turned into my most commented on post to date, An Entrepreneur’s Perspective on Information Asymmetry in Bootstrapping. I intended this entry to highlight a unique perspective on the role of information in the […]

Consider a piece of software that allows you to fix, manage, and store your photos. Better yet – you can assign “tags” to each of your pictures with as many keywords that you want, which allows you to find, sort, […]

In the context of reviewing Yahoo’s MyWeb 2.0, John Battelle gripes, “But, on the other hand, it’s a pain in the ass to keep creating social networks, maintaining groups, tagging, sharing, etc. It’s a habit I’m not sure the masses […]

Last week I wrote a post entitled “Know Your VC’s Magic Number” in which I said, “At the heart of the issue is that different VCs are managing different sized funds – so the appetite for how much capital they […]

With the number of VCs who blog increasing, the amount of valuable information available is growing as well. Most of the VC blog content available possesses a time-based relevancy component to it. And that’s one reason that blogs are so […]

Historically, the U.S. mobile carriers have taken a “walled-garden” approach to content. They have provided content providers with a closed-portal system in which nearly everything that consumers can purchase and use on their phones is distributed exclusively through their own […]

Sarah Lacy of BusinessWeek laments in the context of the Grokster vs. MGM case, “It takes guts to be a startup in the music sharing business these days… there are also a lot of pitfalls.” Indeed, the legal copyright risks […]

Yes, I do realize that the concept of mobile blogging (moblogging) has been around for a while now. But one important aspect really didn’t hit me until during a few recent conversations here at Masthead and after reading this NYT […]

A friend of mine is currently in the process of bootstrapping to start an ad-supported internet content business. However, she doesn’t have very much seed capital to fund the initial development of the basic functionality of the product, and is […]

All VC firms are all different. As I wrote about in a previous post, every one has a different process for evaluating a potential new deal. In addition, venture firms all have a different magic number for how much capital […]