Writing

Brian Norgard wonders if its possible:"The mythical, “End-to-end,” solution is much discussed yet far from being realized. My best guess is that it will emerge from companies that have built tools themselves (or most of them for that matter). There [...]  Read more

John Borthwick says:"Ads are often blunt instruments that fail to offer value to a membership engaged in a dynamic conversation – targeting and metadata only get you so far."Greg Yardley, on the other hand, wonders:"But what if individual ad targeting [...]  Read more

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Roger Ehrenberg:"As both an active angel investor and entrepreneur, I can say one thing for sure: macroeconomic woes aside, the New York early-stage investment scene is vibrant, exciting, and full of possibilities. I have seen more interesting deals with strong [...]  Read more

Henry Blodget, at Silicon Alley Insider, speaks the truth about some online videos:"Everyone is jumping aboard the executive-video-interview bandwagon, which is too bad, because most executive video interviews suck. Why? Because who has 20-30 minutes to sit around watching glib, [...]  Read more

Rarely have I read a more interesting essay about the psychology of venture investing than this piece written by Todd Jaquez-Fissori. I don't know Todd, but his post is a most welcome take written with a rare honesty and rich [...]  Read more

Paul Kedrosky: Whatever your feelings about Twitter, business plans are overrated, and profits perhaps even more so. Why? Two reasons. First, because VCs are professional nit-pickers. Give them something to find fault with, and they'll do it with abandon. I [...]  Read more

I wrote a piece for the new Silicon Alley Insider site about seed investing in New York.It is about the fact that while venture funding statistics show larger funds and more later stage investing, there are still a wealth of [...]  Read more

Page views? Visits per week? Time spent per visit? What's the answer?Social Degree posits another approach:A user is much more valuable to a community, to the publisher, and to the advertiser if they are interacting and contributing. 1,000 highly engaged [...]  Read more