A historical collection of our writing.
On one hand I can understand Google’s aggressive interest in Groupon. Groupon appears to be one of the few companies that has cracked the code on making money from local businesses. Groupon’s revenues are rumored to be around $50 million per month, which is impressive. But there are at least two […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Whenever I have an idea for a blog post, I add it to a running list. The idea for today’s post came to me during Web 2 Summit and I wish I had posted it then because it would look more prescient. Oh well – here it goes a bit late. Yesterday reports surfaced that […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Over the holiday several events happened that illustrate that we are facing a clear and present danger to the freedom of the Internet.It started with the US government seizing a bunch of domains that were accused of participating in copyright infringement. The action and its aftermath illustrate […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
We are excited to be investing in Joshua Schachter’s new company Tasty Labs (together with Andreessen Horowitz and a terrific group of angels). We enjoyed working with Joshua at Delicious — in my case “working with” was literal — and have benefited since from his insights into social software. […] Read more
Fred has a post today titled “Mobile First, Web Second” http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/mobile-first-web-second-continued.html which is spot on. There is an important additional reason for pursuing this strategy: on the web everything is about displacement, on mobile there is still mostly open […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
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 proposed law known as COICA. If you don’t know what COICA is or why it […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
