A historical collection of our writing.
One way of looking at a publisher’s chain of business operations is that there are five core things it must do: (1) produce content; (2) market/promote content; (3) distribution; (4) figure out the best user interface or experience for its content; (5) and monetize the business. This applies, […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
“Photograph – all I’ve got is a photograph. But it’s not enough” Def Leppard Wikipedia tells us that the word “photograph” derives from the Greek words phos and graphê, together meaning “drawing with light.” I suppose that for a hundred or so years that general definition worked as a metaphor to […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
I was flying from NY to SF the other day and at one point the gentleman I was sitting next to asked me if I was flying towards or away from home. I told him NYC was my home and I was on a business trip. He then said, “let me guess, Internet business.” I […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
I was talking when I should have been listening – Grant Hart As venture investors, we look at our investments and investment strategy continuously at a macro level. Questions like: how much are we investing and how fast? How does that compare to our other funds? What are our ownership levels and […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung – Paul Westerberg I was in a board meeting the other day at a company we have been investors in for a bunch of years. It is run by a small, great group of people, […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Social applications leverage the network structure of the Internet to connect people, places, and media. Over the last decade, we’ve seen the origination and maturation of these services, from Facebook to Twitter to Reddit to Tumblr to many more. At the same time, we’ve wondered what lessons and […] Read more
