A historical collection of our writing.
Attending Mashup Camp this week, really stimulating bunch of people and conversations. Much to digest, but two things standout:– Jon Aizen and Eran Shir of Dapper, smart guys with a wild technology to extract content, or create an API in essence, from any web site. Nice guys too. I think this could […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI was trading emails with one of our portfolio company CEOs last week. The subject was a company that was looking for venture capital that offered a service that was similar to one of the services our portfolio company offered. The CEO was encouraging me to take a close look. He said, “someone is […] Read more
[M]etabrain [E]ntry [L]og:So far we’ve predominantly been discovering better ways of representing standard course materials on webpages. This corresponds to the first phase of a new form of media: that of a new way to do old things. “Cell phones are like landlines without cords.” At some point a […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Dave Morgan (via Andy Monfried):We have unique consumer insights and can tell advertisers and their agencies valuable things about their audiences and their campaigns and their products and services–things that they didn’t know, and need to know. This can help them reach consumers in places that […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Sramana Mitra:I would submit, that Yahoo hardly needs to do anything drastic, except, that it needs to reorganize its entire portfolio into Segments and Lifestyles, and align the 4Cs of each segment, so that the people interested in advertising to a particular segment can reach the community in a […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Fred WilsonIt’s been a while since our last post on this blog. Year end activities got in the way. We were in the midst of a string of posts on what we look for in our investments when we went radio silent. We’ve addressed issues like the stage we like to invest (early), the amount of […] Read more
