To start, this is not another Facebook-is-more-ephemeral-than-Snapchat, look-at-how-good-I-am-at-wordplay post. Also, Facebook is not dead. Just look at their mobile monetization success. However, when Facebook loses part of a group of people, the rest of the group will disappear simply because…
I just used iTunes smart playlists for the first time and it has vastly improved my iPhone music experience. Not coincidentally, I have also been learning how to program. My music flow is to download a bunch of new music…
Do one thing at a time. The idea is so simple, but the execution is so difficult. I always have a lot of things I want to get done. However, I do not always get a lot of things done.…
Union Square Ventures is a very successful venture capital firm and they make thesis driven investments. There are many great companies that make bad venture capital investments. USV’s thesis is a great filter to sort out between good companies and…
There are two all-important elements of a negotiation in general and at startups in particular: what you can get and what you should get during a negotiation. What can you get? Negotiations have a lot to do with leverage, perception…
The distributors that control consumers’ preferred distribution channels will win the entertainment media business. Nobody likes to buy bundled Cable content. However, the content we all like can only be gotten through bundled cable, for now. I love digital distribution…
Digital distributors of content are moving into original content creation and will likely beat cable companies. (I wrote about the topic here). However, there are two primary strategies for releasing their original content: binge and weekly. Which one is the…
