What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

This post originally appeared on TechCrunch.

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. This thinking is largely driven by…

Here are 10 Tips from BuzzFeed to Make Your Content Go Viral

I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed, a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral.

How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

You Manage What you Measure

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”

Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

If you read this blog often you’ll know that I’m a huge fan of First Round Capital.

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the…

Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

I recently sat down with Matt Coffin, the founder of LowerMyBills, which sold for $400 million but was very nearly a bankruptcy only a few years early, and talked “startups.”

Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Brad Feld is a fountain of knowledge & wisdom. I had the chance to sit down with him for an hour and ask him loads of questions that I thought you’d enjoy hearing. If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes — Episode 27 — and…

The Future of Advertising will be Integrated

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch.

Banner Ads. They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. They were very effective back then, with the original ad garnering a 78% click-through…

Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

I’ve just finished a week away from the office for Spring Break, which was much needed. I’m now back & ready for action.

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs…

8 Startup Lessons You Could Learn from Gotham Gal

It’s easy to think that the wife of a well-known & successful VC (Fred Wilson) would have had an easy and storied life of wealth and privilege. I had previously had the opportunity to spend time with Joanne Wilson, Fred’s wife, and knew…