Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.
Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets.
I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.
Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened.
Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale.
Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr are all 'User First, Brands Second' services. The brands are all over these services now. But for the most part, these services didn't do much to bring them. The engaged users did.
Certainly anything that is news or opinion needs to be free on the Web, because the Web is this very fluid medium that is very much driven by links and the flow of visitors through a discussion via links.
When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening.
The Web is going to capture an increasing share of people's attention, and billions of dollars are going to flow in. What Web 2.0 is about is harnessing those dollars in highly leverageable ways.
Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.
I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.
When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.
The most common way customer financing is done is you sell the customer on the product before you've built it or before you've finished it. The customer puts up the money to build the product or finish the product and becomes your first customer. Usu...
Money is information, like bits.
Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software.
Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount ...
The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.
New York's niche is content, and content is becoming more valuable. Just think about what is more valuable: MTV or the cable system that you use to get MTV? Howard Stern or the radio station you use to listen to him? Ultimately, technology becomes a ...
The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.
We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.
I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.
