Just a few days last week after I blogged that we should “expect to start seeing more grumblings of dissent claiming that the blog promise is overhyped,” the NY Times ran a story titled, “A Blog Revolution? Get a Grip.” […]

Two weeks ago Business Week featured a cover story, “Blogs Will Change Your Business.” Just another mainstream media recognition that blogs are having a profound effect on not just traditional media, but also the business world as well. And just […]

In Monday’s WSJ article “Web sites that exist only to sell advertising,” Lee Gomes complains how spam is clogging up search engine results pages and goes on to blame the major search engines themselves for the problem. He writes, “It’s […]

Joanna Glasner of Wired wrote a piece where she states that behavioral marketing is “a growing niche in the online advertising industry focused on targeting promotional messages to an individual’s online activities. Some might call such tracking across websites by […]

I’ve realized that many of my posts to date have assumed a basic premise: that online digital media and advertising is exploding in growth, creating a fundamental shift in generating enormous value that will be captured by entrepreneurial endeavors. To […]

The following are links to two great posts on the business of venture capital: The first, from Bill Burnham, insightfully explores the issue of whether or not the industry is currently heavily over-funded. He concludes that “…[while] venture capital may […]

A document that I would highly recommend reading is Mary Meeker’s “The Age of Engagement” presentation given at the AdTech conference in San Francisco earlier this week. (I unfortunately, wasn’t able to attend the conference myself, but would be very […]

Earlier this month, I posted how Yahoo has the wind against its back with the market trend towards rich-media advertising, and predicted that “Google [will] make some moves to play catch up in this race.” Yesterday Google confirmed that forecast, […]

Michael Moritz, a general partner at VC firm Sequoia Capital and an early investor in Google, recently told the crowd at the VentureOne conference that start-ups shouldn’t bother with a detailed business plan. He’s quoted in the BusinessWeek DealFlow blog […]

I am surprised by the number of entrepreneurs that I meet with and talk to who don’t have a true online communications strategy, which I’ve blogged previously. Whether or not a company has a blog or some other form of […]