iPhone Apps Aren't iPod Songs
The post of the day comes from Andy Finnell who writes that iPhone app developers must abandon the $0.99 price that many apps are selling for these days.Andy calculates that a developer who wants to make a living off an iPhone app (at $40k/year) must...

iPhone Apps Aren't iPod Songs
The post of the day comes from Andy Finnell who writes that iPhone app developers must abandon the $0.99 price that many apps are selling for these days.Andy calculates that a developer who wants to make a living off an iPhone app (at $40k/year) must...

Getting The Fill (aka buying on the way down)
One week ago, last friday morning, I wrote that I was waiting for the fill on three "good to fill" orders I had placed weeks before. They were:$AMZN at $40$GOOG at $320$AAPL at $90I got my fill on $GOOG earlier this week and mid-day yesterday I got...

Joe The Plumber's Landing Page
Last month I attended the New Business Models For News Summit and found myself running the "revenue" breakout group. We talked quite a bit about generating revenue from local merchants. There are a bunch of companies working on this problem, including...

Joe The Plumber's Landing Page
Last month I attended the New Business Models For News Summit and found myself running the "revenue" breakout group. We talked quite a bit about generating revenue from local merchants. There are a bunch of companies working on this problem, including...

WiFi On Steroids
I posted about the "TV white spaces" issues a week or so ago. Well, we got the win. Yesterday was a big day on more than one front. Larry Page calls this "wifi on steroids" on the Google blog. That's a great way to think about it. This is a win...

Ad Supported Movies - Back To The Future
When I was a kid we used to watch movies on TV and they'd have commercial breaks in them. That was when we'd run to the kitchen for a drink, head to the bathroom, or just chill out for a minute or two. I have fond memories of watching movies that...

A Slightly Different Perspective
I've been reading a bunch of posts recently suggesting that the VC model is broken. But guess what? It's always been broken. As Jeff Nolan points out in a short and sweet post:there is a permanent structural imbalance in VC that simply doesn’tchange...

Getting The Fill (aka buying on the way down)
One week ago, last friday morning, I wrote that I was waiting for the fill on three "good to fill" orders I had placed weeks before. They were:$AMZN at $40$GOOG at $320$AAPL at $90I got my fill on $GOOG earlier this week and mid-day yesterday I got...

Why The iTouch Is Inevitable
For the past 2 1/2 years, we've been using Sonos as the primary interface to music in our home. It started when Sonos did an advertising deal on this blog and as part of that campaign, I did a long review of Sonos. That first Sonos box led to a few...

Capital Vs People
I have a friend Charlie who is a serial entrepreneur and he says that venture capital "values capital over people". That's a criticism that has a ring of truth to me (as opposed to much of what Adeo said the other day).We just spent the past day...

A Slightly Different Perspective
I've been reading a bunch of posts recently suggesting that the VC model is broken. But guess what? It's always been broken. As Jeff Nolan points out in a short and sweet post:there is a permanent structural imbalance in VC that simply...

Live Poker Connects The iPhone to Social Nets
Our portfolio company Zynga quietly released Live Poker yesterday for the iPhone. Live Poker is the same Texas Hold'em game that over 1.4mm people play every day on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, and Hi5. Now you can have it on the iPhone and play against...

Looking For a "Geo-CTO"
Our portfolio company outside.in announced on their blog yesterday that traffic is up 400% ytd and scaling, performance, and reliability are becoming key concerns for them. And so they also announced they are looking for a CTO who can help them manage to...

Bustup Not Bailout
Bustup not bailout should be our rallying cry. Once upon a time busting up big companies was a populist movement. Its time for that movement to rise up again. Not so much to rid our society of monopolies but to rid our society of financial minefields...

Ad Supported Movies - Back To The Future
When I was a kid we used to watch movies on TV and they'd have commercial breaks in them. That was when we'd run to the kitchen for a drink, head to the bathroom, or just chill out for a minute or two. I have fond memories of watching movies that...

Portfolio Screens
Over the years, I've seen a bunch of ways to screen a venture capital portfolio looking for insights into risk, return, capital allocation, and areas of concern. I posted about one of them last week I call the Survival Matrix and people seemed to like...

Hacking Education
I spent a lot of time on this blog in the past month exhorting everyone to give teaching tools to the neediest public schools.  I did that because education is possibly the most important thing we can do for our world and our children.But I also...

Hacking Education
I spent a lot of time on this blog in the past month exhorting everyone to give teaching tools to the neediest public schools.  I did that because education is possibly the most important thing we can do for our world and our children.But I also...