Giving to Senator Ron Wyden and Defeating COICA
Yesterday, I gave $1,000 to Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. With this post I want to convince you to do the same (or at least give something to him). Why? Because Ron Wyden has taken a stand against the awful [...] Read more
Mark Zuckerberg as Bill Gates
Listening to Mark Zuckerberg yesterday at W2Summit was fascinating. First, I have seen Mark’s performance on stage go from awkward and tentative three years ago to assured and compelling now. Second, it couldn’t be clearer that Mark is singularly in [...] Read more
IPOs 2.0
Super detailed post by Bill Gurley about IPOs followed by a riff from Fred with more good reasons why could and should see more IPOs from Internet companies. So I am piling on with an IPO post as well, but [...] Read more
Photo Sharing 3.0
There is a whole resurgence of photo sharing and it is all based on creating a natively mobile experience (as opposed to adding mobile as an after thought). This is interesting two reasons. First, photo sharing is of course one [...] Read more
A Radical Proposal To Avoid the Mallification of the Web
The rumor is that Facebook will on Monday unveil a fairly full fledged webmail solution. At the same time Google is working hard on some kind of new social network. Microsoft too is trying to have email, search, social, etc. [...] Read more
Modeling (in Excel)
I am going to spend the better part of today building some models in Excel. Much as I love Google Docs, for any serious model I still go back to Excel without regrets. It is fast and versatile and I [...] Read more
Looking for Daily/Frequent Sources
My routine online reading has narrowed somewhat precipitously to Tumblr, Techmeme, Hacker News and HuffPo. Would love to find out what folks are reading daily or at least frequently (minimum once a week) online across categories: tech, politics, culture, art, [...] Read more
Asking For It
I am often surprised by how many people know what they want and yet fail to ask for it at the crucial moment (or for that matter altogether). This occurs in many different contexts. Sales people who can’t close because [...] Read more
Some Thoughts on Mobile Opportunities
This morning I am speaking to a group of women entrepreneurs out here in Westchester about opportunities coming out of mobile. I have written about this before on the USV blog, but here is what I am planning to talk [...] Read more
