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What I want from Bug Labs
Brad Burnham – Sep 6, 2007
The wraps have started to come off of Bug Labs. Their site is now up and they have begun an active dialogue with enthusiasts that is shaping their design and their development priorities. We invested in Bug Labs because everything [...] Read more
AOL/Time Warner buys TACODA
Brad Burnham – Jul 23, 2007
We are pleased to announce today that AOL/Time Warner has agreed to buy our portfolio company TACODA. As is always the case with a company you have worked with for years, our excitement for the founders and management team about [...] Read more
Wesabe Is More Than A “Personal” Financial Service
Brad Burnham – Jun 20, 2007
Last fall when we started looking seriously at personal financial services, we realized something important about that kind of personal productivity application and the web. When you move word processing from the desktop to the web not much happens. Writely [...] Read more
Who do you trust to edit your news?
Brad Burnham – May 21, 2007
I can’t say that the panel discussion – Web 2.0: Cult of the Amateur? A Debate – was the most interesting or even the most entertaining session at the Personal Democracy Forum held last Friday in New York. That honor [...] Read more
Cash Flow Forecasting Isn’t What It Used To Be
Brad Burnham – Apr 13, 2007
I share Fred’s determination never to miss out on a later round investment in a company we have nurtured because we do not have adequate reserves. For me, however, the more interesting insight that came out of the exercise of [...] Read more
AdaptiveBlue
Brad Burnham – Feb 21, 2007
The genius of the web is that it is flat – anything can be a link and anything can be linked to. But this is also one of its greatest limitations. When you come across the word Taurus on the [...] Read more
What’s next?
Brad Burnham – Jan 24, 2007
The sense of progress in the computer industry is so strong that it feels almost inevitable. That momentum may be most obvious in the increasing capabilities of the underlying technology – faster chips, cheaper storage, and more bandwidth, but there [...] Read more
Customer Service is the New Marketing
Brad Burnham – Nov 7, 2006
I had a cup of coffee yesterday with Craig Newmark. Toward the end of the conversation, I told him that one of the most important things I learned by studying Craigslist was the importance of customer service. Craig is, famously, [...] Read more
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme
Brad Burnham – Sep 18, 2006
When Mark Twain said that, he almost certainly was not thinking about the fate of network operators and mini-computer companies, but it seems more and more likely that 20 years from now Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, Comcast, Cingular and T-Mobile will [...] Read more